Speaker
Mr
Adam Schreckenberger
(University of Minnesota)
Description
The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment that utilizes Fermilab’s NuMI beam and two steel-scintillator calorimeters. Designed to search for νµ disappearance, MINOS provides an opportunity to study νe appearance as well. Analysis methods developed by the MINOS νe group have facilitated the placement of limits upon the mixing angle associated with νµ to νe oscillations. In addition, the experiment is capable of repeating its analyses using an antineutrino beam. Recent observations of anti-νµ disappearance have motivated supplementary data collection with the antineutrino beam configuration. The benefits of an anti-νe appearance study and MINOS’s anti-νe sensitivity will be presented.
Author
Mr
Adam Schreckenberger
(University of Minnesota)
