MiniBooNE, a neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab - Teppei Katori (MIT)

lundi 25 mai 2009, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Paris

Salle Grossetete (LPNHE)

The mini-Booster neutrino oscillation experiment (MiniBooNE) is a muon to electron neutrino appearance oscillation experiment. MiniBooNE is designed to search for neutrino oscillations as observed by the LSND experiment at Los Alamos. First results from MiniBooNE successfully rejected a two-massive-neutrino appearance-only oscillation model, which is the most popular candidate model for the LSND signal. In the first result, MiniBooNE also saw an anomalous excess in the low energy electron neutrino candidate sample. After one year re-visiting all sources of backgrounds, no Standard Model explanation has yet been found. In this talk, general physics of MiniBooNE will be presented along with descriptions of the neutrino beam, detector, and analysis, with several latest results.