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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two physicists-Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B McDonald, whose teams discovered that neutrinos, which come in three flavours, change from one flavour to another. This discovery is a major milestone in particle physics as it gives a clear evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model. Neutrino oscillation is a quantummechanical phenomenon whereby a neutrino created with a specific lepton flavour (electron, muon, or tau) can later be measured to have a different flavour. Historical development of the field in chronological order of experiments is briefly described in this article.
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Suman Bala Beri, UGC Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, has teaching and research experience of more than 42 years. She is part of the team that discovered the Higgs Boson and has been a part of the team that made the Top Quark discovery at Fermilab. She is a member of the CMS Collaboration, CERN, Geneva and Dzero Collaboration, Fermilab, USA. Her area of interest is experimental high-energy physics. She is also known for her deep involvement and participation in scientific outreach activities and as an inspirational speaker at various educational forums.
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Beri, S. Neutrino oscillations. Reson 21, 911–924 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-016-0400-y
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