Conveners
Session 2
- Michelle Mesquita de Medeiros (Federal University of Goias)
- Louise Suter (Argonne)
Andrew Godshalk
(SUNY at Buffalo)
09/06/2014, 13:30
The CMS pixel detector is the innermost component of the all-silicon tracking system located closest to the interaction point. The foreseen increase of the instantaneous and integrated luminosities at the LHC necessitate an upgrade of the pixel detector in order to maintain the excellent tracking performance of the CMS detector. The main new features of the upgraded pixel detector would be...
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David Martinez
(Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas)
09/06/2014, 13:50
MINERvA (Main INjector Experiment for v-A) is a neutrino scattering experiment in Fermilab's NuMI high-intensity neutrino beam. MINERvA was designed to make precision measurements of low energy neutrino and antineutrino cross section on a variety of materials including plastic scintillator, C, Fe, Pb, He and water.
An overview of the experiment and a description of the detector will be presented.
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Cheryl Patrick
(Northwestern University)
09/06/2014, 14:10
Charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) scattering from heavy nuclei is an
important signal channel for neutrino oscillation experiments. Last
year, MINERvA published its first CCQE cross-section distributions. Our
results, and those of other experiments, suggest that we do not
currently have a complete model that accurately predicts all of the
complex interactions occurring within the...
Chris Marshall
(University of Rochester)
09/06/2014, 14:30
Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories predict proton decay with $p \rightarrow K^{+}\bar{\nu}$ as the dominant channel. Backgrounds arise from $K^{+}$ production by atmospheric neutrinos where other final-state particles are not detected. MINERvA identifies $K^{+}$ events by reconstructing the time difference between the kaon and its decay products, and expects to be able to constrain the rate...