The Muon g-2 experiment, FNAL E989, collected muon beam data over six accelerator operations years from 2017 to 2023. Since the final experimental uncertainty is expected to be statistically limited, time during accelerator-on periods was spent almost entirely on collecting “production” quality muon data and the necessary associated magnetic field measurements (“trolley runs”). Limited time...
For accelerator neutrino experiments, an accurate prediction of the incoming neutrino flux is crucial for reducing uncertainties for all physics measurements. In this exciting period for the Short-Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab, with far detector (ICARUS) already operating and the near detector (SBND) nearing operation, an updated flux model for the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) is...
Accurate neutrino interaction models are crucial for reducing experimental uncertainties and require target-specific cross-section measurements. Understanding neutrino-argon interactions with final-state pions is vital for current and future argon-based neutrino experiments such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, where these reaction channels will play a dominant role. MicroBooNE, a...
Current and future large neutrino liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiments can broaden their physics reach by incorporating isolated MeV-scale features present in their data. In this study, we use data from the MicroBooNE detector, an 85 tonnes LArTPC exposed to Fermilab neutrino beams from 2015 until 2021, to demonstrate new calorimetric and particle discrimination...
There are several long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments around the world, which study neutrino properties by observing the effects of neutrino oscillations over long distances. Most of these experiments also have near detectors to constrain the properties of the neutrino beam, such as its flux and energy spectrum, and to control systematic uncertainties. To achieve a narrower neutrino...
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum (PROSPECT) reactor antineutrino experiment is designed to detect eV-scale sterile neutrino oscillation at short baselines. PROSPECT's segmented detector is positioned approximately 7 meters away from the compact research reactor core at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor. During the data collection period, certain...
A comprehensive international effort has been underway to elucidate the properties and behaviors of neutrinos. A major source of systematic uncertainties in studying neutrino-induced interactions comes from neutrino-nucleus cross-section models, highlighting the need for more precise statistical measurements. MINERvA, an on-axis neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment located at the Fermi...
A high-precision measurement of $\Delta m^2_{31}$ and $\theta_{23}$ is inevitable to estimate the Earth's matter effect in long-baseline experiments which in turn plays an important role in addressing the issue of neutrino mass ordering and to measure the value of CP phase in $3\nu$ framework. After reviewing the results from the current experiments and discussing the near-future sensitivities...
The NOvA experiment, a long-baseline neutrino experiment based at Fermilab, is dedicated to measuring various neutrino oscillation parameters with high precision. One of the significant contributions to systematic uncertainty in these measurements is the cross-section systematics, which arises from an incomplete understanding of nuclear models and neutrino-nucleus interactions. Recently, there...
The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber with an active mass of 85 tons. It is located in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, where it collected data from 2015 to 2020. As part of its primary scientific objectives, MicroBooNE aims to extract precise measurements of muon neutrino - argon charged current interaction cross-sections. Such measurements are important to...
In this poster, we shall report neutrino cross sections for the kinematic region defined as Shallow Inelastic Scattering (1.5 $<$ W $<$ 2.0 GeV) at MINERvA, located at Fermilab. These cross sections will be on the hydrocarbon central tracker exposed to the NuMI ME beam with neutrino energy peaked at around $E_{\nu} = 6$ GeV. The SIS region has never been specifically studied, and thus the...
The non-standard interaction (NSI) of neutrinos mediated by a scalar particle is an interesting new physics scenario to explore in oscillation experiments. The scalar NSI contribution appears as a perturbation to the mass term in the neutrino Hamiltonian, giving a unique possibility of probing absolute neutrino mass through oscillations. The linear scaling of scalar NSI with matter density...
We have developed a neutrino detector with threshold energies from ~0.2 to 100 MeV in a clean detection mode almost completely void of spurious backgrounds. It was initially developed for the NASA neutrino Solar Orbiting Lab project to put a solar neutrino detector very close to the Sun with 1000 to 10,000 times more solar neutrino flux than on Earth, but similar interactions have been found...
A novel three-dimensional projection scintillator tracker called SuperFGD is one of the key components of the near detector upgrade of the T2K experiment. Due to the nanosecond timing resolution and fine granularity, SuperFGD will provide essential data for studying neutrino interactions. A prototype of the SuperFGD detector was exposed to a neutron beam at LANL to study its response to...
Portrait of a Scientist aims to deconstruct stereotypes about what a scientist looks like and how they act by showcases people's multifaceted identities. Participants are asked to complete the phrase "I am a scientist and I also..." with any hobby, role, or identity that they feel comfortable sharing. The most engagement with the project, which has been running since 2021, has occurred when...
EMPHATIC (Experiment to Measure the Production of Hadrons At a Test beam In Chicagoland) is a Fermilab-based table-top size experiment focused on hadron production measurements. Flux is a limiting systematic for all neutrino cross section measurements by current experiments and we rely on a-priori predictions of the flux for analyses, including measurements of...
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum (PROSPECT) experiment is a short-baseline reactor experiment with the goal of measuring the antineutrino spectrum from the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). It searches for potential short-baseline oscillations and the existence of sterile neutrinos. PROSPECT has already set new limits on the existence of eV-scale sterile neutrinos while achieving...
MicroBooNE is an 85-tonne active mass liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab. One of the key physics goals is the precise measurement of neutrino interactions on argon in the 1 GeV energy regime. The study of heavier mesons in neutrino interactions will help to improve the background estimates for future...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), located in Southern China, is a next-generation neutrino experiment that consists of a 20-kton liquid scintillator detector. JUNO's primary objective is to determine the neutrino mass ordering (NMO) via reactor neutrino oscillation measurements. Cosmic muons contribute to one of the dominant background sources to reactor neutrinos by...
The Lorentz Invariance is the foundation of other successful theories, like quantum field theory, and is connected to fundamental symmetries, like charge, parity, and time reversal (CPT), which is essential in the Standard Model of particle physics. Alternative theories proposing that Lorentz Invariance may break in some scales have been considered in the context of neutrino oscillations, as...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a 1,300 km long-baseline neutrino experiment that will send a neutrino beam through two particle detectors. The near detector will be located 60 m underground at Fermilab (Chicago), and the far detector will be located 1.5 km underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota. The far detector module (FD-HD) will...