INPP Seminar | Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, Sept. 15

Ornella Palamara

The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP) presents Ornella Palamara, of the Fermilab and Yale University, presenting “Three Detector Short-baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam,” on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at at 4 p.m. in Edwards Accelerator Lab, Roger W. Finlay Conference Room.

Abstract: The Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) physics program with three Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (BAr-TPC) detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) will deliver a rich and compelling physics opportunity, including the ability to resolve a class of experimental anomalies in neutrino physics and to perform the most sensitive search to date for sterile neutrinos at the eV² mass-scale, through both appearance and disappearance oscillation channels.  The Micro BooNE LAr-TPC experiment is in the commissioning phase. By 2018, the MicroBooNE detector will be joined by two additional LAr-TPC detectors, the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) and the ICARUS-T600 detector, to form the three detectors program.  The SBN program will perform a search for ν_µ→ν_e appearance covering with 5σ sensitivity  the LSND allowed (99% C.L.) region.