Nilay Bostan
Marmara University
“Neutrino Physics from CERN to DUNE”
Abstract
Accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments are among the most powerful tools for investigating the fundamental properties of neutrinos, such as mass-squared differences, mixing angles, and the CP-violating phase δCP . Using controlled neutrino beams with baselines of hundreds of kilometers, oscillation parameters can be measured with high precision, and the neutrino mass ordering can be determined. In this work, the theoretical framework of neutrino oscillations is discussed, including the lepton mixing matrix, flavor transformations, and the fundamental oscillation parameters. In addition, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which will utilize a high-intensity neutrino beam produced at Fermilab, is presented. The determination of the neutrino mass ordering, the measurement of CP violation in the lepton sector, and their possible implications for the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, for example, through leptogenesis, are also addressed. Furthermore, the CERN Neutrino Platform, which hosts the ProtoDUNE detectors, prototype liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detectors used in DUNE, and serves as a critical international R&D center for neutrino physics, is introduced.
Dr. Nilay Bostan received her PhD in 2019 from the Department of Physics at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, focusing on the early universe and cosmic inflation. She subsequently started focusing on the DUNE experiment, first at the University of Iowa and then at the University of Notre Dame in the United States. During her postdoctoral research at the University of Notre Dame, she also contributed to the NA61/SHINE (CERN) and EMPHATIC (Fermilab) experiments, working on hadron production measurements to improve neutrino flux predictions. Between 2023 and 2025, she worked at TENMAK NÜKEN, the Nuclear Energy Research Institute in Ankara. Since June 2025, she has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Division of High Energy and Plasma Physics at Marmara University. She continues her research on the CMS and ProtoDUNE at CERN, as well as the DUNE experiment at Fermilab. Her research interests include high-energy physics, neutrino physics, the early universe, data analysis, and high-performance computing.
Date: 22 April 2026, Wednesday
Time: 15:30
Place: SA-240
All interested are cordially invited.