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Mukti Jana
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
High intensity, low emittance muon beams are essential requirements for Muon Colliders and Neutrino Factories. Low emittance muon beams can be produced by Ionization Cooling process. This consists of passing muon beams through low-Z ionization absorber material (H), to reduce all components momentum and replacing only longitudinal momentum using RF cavity. In the same time to keep muon beam...
Adam Schreckenberger
(University of Minnesota)
MINOS is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment situated along Fermilab's high-intensity NuMI neutrino beam. MINOS is capable of searching for muon neutrino to electron neutrino transitions, observations of which would indicate a nonzero value for the neutrino mixing angle theta-13. A new study will analyze an additional 3.4e20 protons-on-target of mostly antineutrino data to look for...
Denise Ford
(Fermilab and Northwestern University)
Linear particle accelerators composed of superconducting radio-frequency cavities will be used in future high energy physics projects, such as Project-X and the International Linear Collider, and can be used for other applications, such as neutron sources and nuclear waste management. The materials science of the particle accelerator is at the core of optimizing both the performance of the...
Enrique Arrieta Diaz
(Michigan State University)
The NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment will study electron neutrino appearance using two high-resolution, fully active scintillator detectors: a Near Detector at Fermilab and a Far Detector at Ash River MN. Precision measurements of neutrino oscillations with these detectors require careful calibration and sophisticated event reconstruction techniques. This poster presents the detector...
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Rahmat Rahmat
(University of Mississippi)
A framework for Fast Simulation of particle interactions in the CMS detector has been developed and implemented in the overall simulation, reconstruction and analysis framework of CMS. It produces data samples in the same format as the one used by the Geant4-based (henceforth Full) Simulation and Reconstruction chain; the output of the Fast Simulation of CMS can therefore be used in the...
Michelle Mesquita de Medeiros
(Federal University of Goias)
The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment at Fermilab uses a long-baseline neutrino beam in order to study neutrino oscillations. The near detector is placed 1 km from the target while the far detector is situated 735 km away from the target. Both detectors are magnetized allowing the charge determination of the particle being detected. The far detector is also used for...
Harsha Panuganti
(Northern Illinois University)
High Brightness Electron Source Laboratory (HBESL) is scheduled to be constructed by re-configuring the A0 Photo-injector at Fermi Lab in collaboration with NIU. The goal of the facility is to produce high brightness electron beams from photoemission using ultra-short laser pulses (few femtoseconds). The applications of high brightness electron beams include but not limed to the medical,...
Dr
Benton Pahlka
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Measurement of the particle time of flight involves knowing the transit distance traveled and knowing the transit time. The transit time in turn depends upon time-keeping and time-stamping devices located at widely the separated detectors which mark the start and finish location for the transit. The MINOS experiment has recently upgraded the time-keeping and time-stamping devices to improve...
Richa Sharma
(Panjab University, Chandigarh/ Fermilab)
The MINOS detectors are steel-scintillator sampling tracking calorimeters
and are calibrated using an in-situ light-injection system and cosmic ray muons. The MINOS near and far detectors have been operating almost continuously since 2003 and 2005, providing opportunity to quantify the behavior of the various detector components, many of which are used in the next generation neutrino...
Siqi Yang
(University of Science and Technology of China)
We present a measurement of the forward- backward charge asymmetry for dielectron produced via an intermediate Z/gamma* boson with mass between 50~1000GeV, using about 5fb-1 data collected by the D0 detector in ppbar collisons. And also extract the weak mixing angle and Z-light quark couplings.
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Ioana Anghel
(Argonne Lab/Iowa State University)
The MINOS experiment uses two detectors separated by 734km between Fermilab and the Soudan Underground Laboratory. A new measurement of the neutrino Time of Flight (TOF) was conducted between the two detectors. This analysis extends the initial measurement based on Run I data published in PhysRevD in 2007, benefitting from the statistics accumulated during 6 years of data taking. The...
Huanzhao Liu
(Southern Methodist University)
We present a measurement of the top quark mass in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using ttbar events with two leptons and accompanying jets in 4.3 fb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We analyze the kinematically underconstrained dilepton events by integrating over their neutrino rapidity distributions. We reduce the dominant systematic...
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Jaroslaw Nowak
(Univeristy of Minnesota)
The NuMI Off-Axis electron neutrino Appearance experiment (NOvA) is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment and the flagship project of the Intensity Frontier initiative of the Fermi National Laboratory. The NOvA experiment has started taking data with a near detector prototype placed in a surface building in November 2010. The far detector of the NOvA experiment is currently under...
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Brian Tice
(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
The MINERvA experiment is a precision neutrino experiment designed to improve our understanding of the neutrino-nucleus interaction. The experiment uses a fully active scintillation detector to allow full event reconstruction and includes passive targets helium, water, carbon, iron and lead. Ratios of inclusive charged current event rates in carbon, iron, lead and scintillator will be show.
Sonam Mahajan
(Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)
The Main Injector Particle Production (MIPP) Experiment at Fermilab is a hadron production experiment which uses 120 GeV/c primary protons from the Main Injector to produce secondary beams of charged pions, kaons, proton and anti-proton from 5 GeV/c to 90 GeV/c. It was designed to measure the total charged particle production of pions, kaons, protons and anti-protons using beams of charged...
Francois Lemery
(Northern Illinois University)
Wakefield acceleration has recently received much interest due to large acceleration gradients and cost effectiveness. We present experimental plans to use the unique pulse shaping capabilities of ASTA, to study slab-symmetric dielectric lined waveguides with flat and longitudinally ramped drive bunches. We present simulation results and a preliminary experimental setup.
Arun Tadepalli
(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
The E906/SeaQuest experiment is a fixed target experiment that uses the 120 GeV proton beam extracted from the Main Injector at Fermilab. It is the newest Drell-Yan measurement that is aimed at enriching our knowledge about the sea structure of the nucleon. In a Drell-Yan process, a quark from a proton beam annihilates with an anti-quark from a proton target producing a virtual photon, which...
Samvel Khalatyan
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
We perform a model-independent search for the production of heavy resonances with mass greater than 1 TeV decaying to top quark pairs. Using data samples corresponding to ∼5.0 fb−1 of integrated luminosity of pp collision data recorded with the CMS experiment in 2011 at sqrt(s) = 7TeV, we select events containing one lepton (electron or muon) and at least two jets and look for excesses above...
James Maloney
(Northern Illinois University)
A primary technical challenge to the design of a high luminosity muon collider is an effective beam cooling system. An epicyclic twin-helix channel utilizing parametric-resonance ionization cooling (EPIC) has been proposed for the final 6D cooling stage. A proposed design of this twin-helix channel is presented that utilizes correlated optics between the horizontal and vertical betatron...
Martina Cancelo
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Neu-Rad is an experiment set up to investigate observed variation in isotope decay rates correlated with the earth-sun distance and solar flares. Isotope decay rates will be observed near high flux neutrino sources with energies similar to what is observed from the sun. The isotope decay rates are recorded using a Ge detector. Initial measurements using a Sr-90 source in the laboratory will...
Amandeep Singh
(Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh)
The Main Injector Particle Production (MIPP) experiment at Fermilab is a full acceptance spectrometer to measure hadronic particle production using beams of $\pi^{\pm}$, $\rm{K^{\pm}}$, p and $\rm{\bar{p}}$ ranging in momentum from 5 to 120 GeV/c on several targets, for example liquid Hydrogen, Beryllium, Carbon, Bismuth, Uranium and NuMI. The experiment has excellent charged particle...
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Christopher Prokop
(Northern Illinois University)
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.
Bryan Dannowitz
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
The E-906/SeaQuest experiment is a fixed-target experiment at Fermilab that hopes to shed some light on the decades-old mystery of the EMC effect via analysis of the high-x Drell-Yan process. In this poster, I briefly discuss the background of the EMC effect, our projected results range, and the centralized SQL database structure we've assembled for data storage and analysis.
Peter Lane
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) aims to demonstrate the feasibility of preparing a high brilliance muon beam, a key prerequisite for future neutrino factories and muon colliders. Given the muon rest-frame lifetime of 2.2 μs, the only practical method for preparing such beams is ionization cooling. This uses an energy absorbing material to reduce the emittance (size) of a muon...
Dr
Mark Mathis
(College of William and Mary)
The phenomenon of neutrino oscillations is the first evidence for physics beyond the standard model. Some experiments have shown hints of oscillations involving a fourth, sterile neutrino flavor. In long baseline experiments such as MINOS, oscillations involving sterile neutrinos could cause a deficit in the neutral current event rate. In this poster we describe measurements of the neutral...