Neutrino Nobel Prizes — Part 4: 2015 — Kajita and McDonald, oscillation
The 2015 prize that recognized the discovery of neutrino oscillation — Kajita for the 1998 atmospheric result at Super-K, McDonald for the 2001 solar confirmation at SNO.
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The 2015 Nobel Prize: how neutrino oscillation finally became the rule, not the rumour
On October 6, 2015, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald would share the Nobel Prize in Physics 'for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.'
Paper Spotlight: SNO 2001 — solar neutrino flavor change
A guided walk through the 2001 PRL by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory that solved the 30-year solar neutrino problem. SNO measured the total flux of all neutrino flavors from the Sun and compared it to the electron-flavor flux — directly showing solar electron neutrinos converting to other flavors.