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2010
What happens when you fire 700 quintillion particles, 735 km through the Earth, at a 5000 tonne detector, half a mile underground at the bottom of a mine in Northern Minnesota?
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Rm 112 (UHM - Watanabe Hall)
Rm 112
UHM - Watanabe Hall
2505 Correa Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Description
The MINOS Experiment
The MINOS experiment is long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment.MINOS creates a beam of neutrinos at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, on the outskirts of Chicago, and fires it 735km through the Earth to the Soudan mine in Northern Minnesota. On their way through the Earth some fraction of the neutrinos change their nature, through the quantum-mechanical phenomenon of neutrino oscillations. By measuring the neutrino beam content at each end, the MINOS experiment is able to make measurements of fundamental properties of neutrinos and precisely test the oscillation hypothesis. Recent results from the MINOS experiment will be presented including the new (last week) result on electron-neutrino appearance.
The MINOS experiment is long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment.MINOS creates a beam of neutrinos at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, on the outskirts of Chicago, and fires it 735km through the Earth to the Soudan mine in Northern Minnesota. On their way through the Earth some fraction of the neutrinos change their nature, through the quantum-mechanical phenomenon of neutrino oscillations. By measuring the neutrino beam content at each end, the MINOS experiment is able to make measurements of fundamental properties of neutrinos and precisely test the oscillation hypothesis. Recent results from the MINOS experiment will be presented including the new (last week) result on electron-neutrino appearance.
