Conveners
Midmorning Session
- Chris Prokop (Fermilab)
Christopher Prokop
(Northern Illinois University)
14/06/2012, 10:00
The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) at Fermilab is a superconducting linear electron accelerator currently undergoing construction at FNAL's New Muon Laboratory is planned to support a variety of user and Advanced Accelerator R&D (AARD) experiments. First beam is scheduled for 2012, and the beamline will be upgraded over the course of several years.
Timothy Kutnink
(Iowa State University)
14/06/2012, 10:15
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino experiment that anticipates observing oscillations of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos. The muon neutrino source is the NuMI beam line at Fermilab. The Near and Far Detectors are built off-axis at Fermilab and northern Minnesota respectively. In order to carry out the long term goals of the experiment, the NOvA Near Detector Prototype, built on the...
Joe Grange
(University of Florida)
14/06/2012, 10:30
With the newly confirmed large value of theta13, accelerator-based neutrino experiments will soon seek to measure the mass ordering and CP violation. To do so requires precise oscillation measurements using both neutrino and anti-neutrino beams. However, since these are never purely neutrino or anti-neutrino in content, the detector must be able to separate the two contributions. This is...
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Giuliano Maggi
(Universidad Santa María)
14/06/2012, 10:45
MINERvA is a neutrino experiment located at Fermilab. The main goal of the experiment is to study neutrino interactions using different targets and to measure differential neutrino cross sections. In this talk we concentrate on neutral pion reconstruction in the MINERvA experiment. We will show the present status of our energy, vertex and invariant mass reconstruction. This study is of...
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Jaewon Park
(University of Rochester)
14/06/2012, 11:00
nu_mu + e elastic scattering process is theoretically well understood in ~1% accuracy. This pure leptonic process has a distinct final state of a single, very forward electron. Measurement of the rate of such events provides a useful constraint on the muon neutrino flux incident on the MINERvA detector. Distinguishing electron from gamma background is important on the analysis. e/gamma...
Aaron Higuera
(Universidad de Guanajuato)
14/06/2012, 11:15
MINERvA is a neutrino scattering experiment in the NuMI beamline at Fermilab, designed to measure neutrino cross sections, final states and nuclear effects on a variety of targets in the few-GeV region. In order to calibrate the absolute energy scale of the detector, the MINERvA collaboration planned, designed, constructed and commissioned the MINERvA Test Beam experiment at Fermilab Test Beam...
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Bryce Littlejohn
(UW-Madison)
14/06/2012, 11:30
Many experiments in the last few decades have demonstrated the neutrino's ability to change flavor while traveling through space and time, or oscillate. One of the last remaining unknown parameters describing this oscillation, theta13, is crucial in defining the magnitude of CP-violation in the lepton sector and examining the neutrino's role in the universe's matter-antimatter asymmetry. The...
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Gonzalo Diaz Bautista
(Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru)
14/06/2012, 11:45
The Main INjector ExpeRiment v-A is neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment that uses the NuMI beamline located at Fermilab with the purpose of study different neutrino interactions with nuclear targets as C, Pb and Fe; and determine the corresponding cross sections of these interactions. Charge-current inclusive is one of the principal neutrino interaction channels and, due to in this channel...