14 June 2012
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
US/Central timezone

Charge Current Quasi-Elastic Anti-Neutrino Scattering in MINERvA

14 Jun 2012, 16:00
15m
Ramsey Auditorium, Wilson Hall (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Ramsey Auditorium, Wilson Hall

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Batavia, IL 60510

Speaker

Jesse Chvojka (University of Rochester)

Description

MINERvA is a fine-grained high statistics neutrino scattering experiment located at Fermilab working to better understand low energy (few GeV) neutrino and anti-neutrino cross-sections. Improved understanding of cross-sections will reduce systematic errors at current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. Recent anti-neutrino charge current quasi-elastic (nu_mu_bar + p -> mu + n) results on a partial data set will be discussed including extraction of dsigma/dQ^2.

Primary author

Jesse Chvojka (University of Rochester)

Presentation materials