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Joe Grange worked on the MiniBooNE experiment. He is now at Argonne National Laboratory. Photo courtesy of Joe Grange NAME: Joe Grange WHICH UNIVERSITY DID YOU ATTEND? University of Florida WHO WAS YOUR ADVISOR? Heather Ray ON WHICH EXPERIMENT DID YOU WORK? MiniBooNE WHAT IS YOUR RESEARCH FOCUS? I had lots of fun studying neutrino interactions with the MiniBooNE detector. I focused on optimizing the extraction of information from a neutrino-nucleus cross section. HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN PARTICLE…

This fundamental cross section shows the probability for a muon antineutrino to interact with a nucleon and produce a positively charged muon and any number of nucleons. For the first time, the MiniBooNE experiment has been able to split this measurement into a function of muon energy and scattering angle. By directly measuring the muon kinematics, these new data offer unprecedented insight into the behavior of the muon in antineutrino CCQE interactions. Like many of the processes we study at…