Speaker
Roberto Petti
(University of South Carolina (US))
Description
The reference design of the near detector for the LBNE/F experiment is a high-resolution, low density
(about 0.1 g/cm^3) Fine-Grained Tracker (FGT), which, in conjunction with the high intensity and broad
energy range of the LBNE/F beam, will allow precise tests of fundamental interactions resulting
in a better understanding of the structure of matter.
Overall, FGT is expected to collect about 10^8 inclusive neutrino charged current (CC) interactions with a
bubble-chamber quality reconstruction of secondary charged and neutral particles.
The rich physics program includes precision electroweak measurements (Weak Mixing Angle - WMA) using
different independent channels from NC/CC DIS to neutrino-electron NC elastic scattering,
measurement of the Adler sum rule and precision tests of isospin symmetry, measurements of
nucleon and nuclear structure functions, searches for New Physics, etc.
We will discuss the physics potential of FGT and present a few precision measurements.
Author
Vittorio Paolone
(University of Pittsburgh)
Co-author
Roberto Petti
(University of South Carolina (US))
