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Session chair: Alex Drlica-Wagner
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Edgar Valencia-Rodriguez
(Universidad de Guanajuato)
08/06/2015, 15:45
This work is centered in a tool to constrain the muon neutrino flux using neutrino electron scattering studies, at MINERvA Experiment in the medium energy era. Neutrino electron scattering helps to reduce flux normalization uncertainties on MINERvA’s absolute cross-section measurements. It is detected through an electromagnetic shower, produced by a single outgoing electron with very forward...
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Aaron Bercellie
(University of Rochester)
08/06/2015, 16:00
The MINERvA experiment requires the accurate reconstruction of the kinematics of the particles produced in a neutrino interaction. Therefore, it is paramount to understand the energy response of the MINERvA detector due to electromagnetic and hadronic showers. The MINERvA Test Beam uses the same detector technology in a secondary beam to accurately study these showers at given energies. We...
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Navaneeth Poonthottathil Poonthottathil
(CUSAT/Fermilab)
08/06/2015, 16:15
The MINOS experiment measures the disappearance of νμ and ν ̄μ using two detectors separated by 734 km. The magnetized MINOS detectors enable to separate neutrinos and antineutrinos on an event-by-event basis. Besides the precise standard three flavor oscillation, MINOS is also capable of looking for sterile neutrino signal driven by large mass splittings. MINOS has taken data in antineutrino...
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Don Athula Wickremasinghe
(University of Cincinnati)
08/06/2015, 16:30
The prediction of the muon neutrino flux from a 71.0 cm long beryllium target for the MiniBooNE experiment is based on a measured pion production cross section which was taken from a thin beryllium target (2.0 cm thick - 5% nuclear interaction length) in the Hadron Production (HARP) experiment at CERN. To verify the extrapolation to our longer target, HARP also measured the pion production...
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Nitin Yadav
(Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
08/06/2015, 16:45
The NOvA experiment is a nue appearance neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. It identifies the nue signal by the electromagnetic (EM) showers induced by the electrons in the final state of neutrino interactions. Cosmic muon induced EM showers, dominated by bremsstrahlung, are abundant in NOvA far detector. We use the Cosmic Muon-Removal technique to get pure shower sample from cosmic...
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Kuldeep Kaur Maan
(Panjab Univeristy, Chandigarh/Fermilab)
08/06/2015, 17:00
We present the simulation & beam systematics study of the neutrino flux in NOvA.
Systematic errors on the flux at the near detector (ND), far detector (FD), and
the ratio, FD/ND, due the beam-transport and hadroproduction
are estimated.
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Tian Xin
(Iowa State University)
08/06/2015, 17:15
The Numi Off-axis Neutrino Appearance (NOvA) experiment measures electron neutrino appearance at a distance of 810 km from where muon neutrinos are generated. The experiment consists of two functionally identical detectors, a Near Detector (ND) at Fermilab and a Far Detector (FD) at Ash River in Northern Minnesota. The detectors are fully commissioned and have been taking beam neutrino data...
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Steven Boi
(Northern Illinois University)
08/06/2015, 17:30
The Mu2e experiment will search for a neutrino-less muon to electron conversion process with a sensitivity improvement of almost four orders of magnitude to the current best limit. In order to achieve this designed sensitivity, backgrounds to the neutrino-less conversion process must be well understood. One important background is caused by the decays or interactions of cosmic ray muons faking...