Welcome to John Learned's Home Page
Coordinates:
Teaching Spring 2012:
Other Courses Regularly Taught:
- Physics 170: General
Physics I
- Physics 310: Theoretical Mechanics
- Neutrino Physics
and Astrophysics, Physics
711
- Departmental Colloquium, Physics 690
- High Energy Seminar, Physics 696, occasionally.
- Physics 272: General
Physics II (Electricity, Magnetism and Optics)
- Physics 274: General Physics III (Modern Physics)
- Physics 311: Theoretical
Mechanics
- Intro. to Elem.
Part., Physics 490
- Prospectus
for Scientific Apparatus course, Physics 712, Spring 2006
- Lectures in Particle
Astrophysics, Astro 736, Physics
711
- Course
information for Physics 650 & 651, Graduate Electrodynamics
- Guided
Research, Physics 499, 699 and 800.
Graduate Students Supervised, Spring
2009:
- Stefanie Smith
- Michinari Sakai
Research in Particle Astrophysics and Other Areas:
PROJECTS:
PUBLICATION LISTS:
SOME RECENT PAPERS TALKS AND
MONOGRAPHS:
- Introduction
to the Hanohano Project, presented at the XII Venice Neutrino
Telescopes Workshop, Feb. 2007
- News in Neutrino Astronomy, plenary talk at
27th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Hamburg Germany, 14 August 2001. This is best
viewed with Internet Explorer (thanks to Bill Gates). You can also find
the powerpoint file in
this same directory, which is prettier. Individual jpeg files are in http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~jgl/forum/icrc-hamburg/
A postscript version of the actual lecture can be found at http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~jgl/post/hamburg.ps
- A general audience colloquium about neutrino mass and
oscillations, in powerpoint
format.
- ``Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations'', an
article detailing the evidence for muon neutrino oscillations in the
atmospheric muon neutrino data, and including discussion of implications
and future experimental directions, John~G.~Learned,
Chapter in ``Current Aspects of Neutrino Physics'', David O.
Caldwell, ed., Springer-Verlag (2001); draft at hep-ex/0007056.
- ``High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics'', John
G. Learned and Karl Mannheim, Ann. Rev. of Nuc.
and Part. Science, 50, 679-749 (2000).
The version here was the nearly final draft of a general review of
potential neutrino astronomy sources and detection techniques.
- ``Atmospheric Neutrinos'' , an
update on the atmospheric neutrino oscillations results from SuperK, ``Proced. of the NNN99
meeting in Stony Brook, 9/23-26/99'', ed. M. Diwan,
APS Conf. Proced. 533 (AIP, NY
2000).
- ``Neutrinos Have Mass!'' a six page
non-technical article about the present state of research on neutrino mass
and its place in the universe, coauthored with Vernon Barger of U. Wis.
(6/99).
- ``Neutrinos have mass!'', J.~G.~Learned, SLAC Beam
Line 29 (1999) No. 3, 8-15. This is a Sci. Am. level summary of the
state of the field, in a somewhat large .pdf
file.
- ``An Introduction to Neutrino Astronomy'', a
five page non-technical description of the motivation for undertaking
neutrino astronomy, and the present state of attempts to open a new window
on the universe (5/99).
- ``The Neutrino Eye: A Megaton Low Energy Neutrino and
Nucleon Decay Detector'', published in the Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Simulation and Analysis Methods for Large
Neutrino Detectors, DESY Zeuthen, Germany, July
6-9, 1998, C. Spiering, ed.
- ``Baryon Number Violation'', published in
the Proceedings of the Fifth International WEIN Symposium, June 14-19,
1998, Santa Fe, New Mexico, C. Hoffman, ed.
- ``Evidence
for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos'', The
Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, Y. Fukuda, et. al., Phys. Rev.
Lett. 81, 1562 (1998), hep-ex/9807003.
This is now the most quoted experimental paper in the field.
- ``Detecting
Tau Neutrino Oscillations at PeV Energies'', John~G.~Learned and Sandip~Pakvasa, preprint UH-511-799-94, Astroparticle
Physics J., 3, 267 (1995). This widely quoted paper proposes
the Double Bang signature for high energy tau neutrino detection.
Some notes of possible
interest, about neutrino oscillations, now rather out-of-date (from mid-98):
Some photos:
to contact John Learned click here:
jgl@phys.hawaii.edu
last (somewhat) revised 1/06
