The FNAL e938 Experiment: The Mexican Contribution to the MINER{nu}A Collaboration
- Universidad de Guanajuato, Division de Ciencias e Ingenierias, Departamento de Fisica, Leon GTO, 37150 Mexico (Mexico)
- Universidad de Guanajuato, UCEA, Guanajuato GTO (Mexico)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois (United States)
The MINER{nu}A (Main INjector ExpeRiment for {nu}A) collaboration (http://minerva.fnal.gov//) is a neutrino scattering experiment which uses the NuMI beam-line at Fermilab. It seeks to measure low energy neutrino interactions both to support neutrino oscillation experiments and to study the strong dynamics of the nucleon and nucleus that affect these interactions. It is currently in its final prototyping stage and is preparing for full-scale construction. The first detector module was completed in early 2006 and it is planned to begin taking data in 2009. We present an overview of this experiment, emphasizing the Mexican contribution, and giving the potential physics results that this collaboration can contribute to the physics of neutrino.
- OSTI ID:
- 21300471
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1116, Issue 1; Conference: 13. Mexican school of particles and fields, Hermosillo (Mexico); San Carlos (Mexico), 2-11 Oct 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3131559; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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