Electron Neutrino Appearance in the MINOS Experiment

Journal Article · Thu Feb 21 04:00:00 EST 2008 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2898914· OSTI ID:21055293

Sanchez, Mayly C ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)

MINOS is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment tasked to make a precision measurement of the neutrino mixing parameters associated with the atmospheric neutrino mass splitting. Using a high powered neutrino beam from the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermilab, it compares the neutrino energy spectrum for neutrino interactions observed in two large detectors located at Fermilab and in the Soudan mine in northern Minnesota at a distance of 735 km. We have recently presented muon-neutrino disappearance results after two years of data taking. Beyond those results there is the possibility that for a mixing angle related to electron-neutrino appearance in the vicinity of the current experimental limit, MINOS could make an initial measurement of this parameter. We present a method for particle identification of electron neutrinos and show several techniques being used to study the background contributions for this analysis in the non-oscillated data at the Near Detector.

• OSTI ID: 21055293
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 981; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
ELECTRON NEUTRINOS
ENERGY SPECTRA
FERMILAB
MINNESOTA
MUON NEUTRINOS
NEUTRINO BEAMS
NEUTRINO DETECTION
NEUTRINO OSCILLATION
NEUTRINO REACTIONS
NEUTRINO-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS
NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
REST MASS
WEINBERG ANGLE