Speaker
Ben Messerly
(University of Pittsburgh)
Description
The MINERvA experiment, operating since 2009 in the NuMI beamline, is a precision neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment. It aims to measure few-GeV neutrino interactions, both in support of the new era of neutrino oscillation experiments and as a weak probe of the nuclear medium. MINERvA has a fine-grained plastic scintillator detector that identifies the byproducts of neutrino and anti-neutrino interactions in different nuclei: in the scintillator (CH) itself or in upstream passive targets such as helium, iron, lead, and water. A summary of the experiment is presented.
Primary author
Ben Messerly
(University of Pittsburgh)