5–6 Jun 2017
Fermilab, Wilson Hall
US/Central timezone

MINERvA in 10 Minutes

5 Jun 2017, 16:00
15m
One West (Fermilab, Wilson Hall)

One West

Fermilab, Wilson Hall

Oral Presentation Neutrino Interaction Physics

Speaker

Marianette Wospakrik (University of Florida)

Description

The MINERvA experiment is a dedicated neutrino scattering experiment located on the NuMI beamline in Fermilab. It aims to make high precision measurement of neutrino interaction cross sections in the 1-to 10-GeV energy range, to support the current and future oscillation experiments as well as to provide information about the structure of nuclei, protons and neutrons and the strong force dynamics that affect neutrino-nucleus interactions. The MINERvA detector is comprised of a fine-grained scintillator with electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry regions. Various nuclear targets are located inside and in front of the detector for studying nuclear medium effects in neutrino-induced interactions. This talk presents a summary of the MINERvA experiment.

Primary author

Marianette Wospakrik (University of Florida)

Presentation materials