Laura Fields looks forward to supporting MINERvA’s early-career researchers and to being a good role model for women in the collaboration
MINERvA
This month we celebrate the two-year anniversary of the Neutrino Division. During these past two years, we’ve taken great strides toward making Fermilab the neutrino capital of the world.
The puzzle: understanding how nearly undetectable particles, called neutrinos, interact with normal matter. The solution? The clever MINERvA experiment, which shares its name with the Roman goddess of wisdom.
Finding neutrinos is much harder than finding Nemo. MINERvA improved the search by getting a better handle on fake signals masquerading as neutrinos.
The 27th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, commonly called Neutrino 2016, will bring together scientists from experiments around the world. Scientists working with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will give numerous presentations at Neutrino 2016 and unveil some significant results.
Future detectors, such as Fermilab’s own DUNE, will be designed with proton decay searches in mind. Chris Marshall will present MINERvA’s precision measurement on charged-current kaon production — a significant background to the presumed method by which protons decay — at Friday’s Wine and Cheese seminar.
MINERvA measures the total probability that a muon neutrino (or antineutrino) interacts with the protons and neutrons inside the MINERvA detector via charged-current interaction.
MINERvA scientists have made improvements to the way they simulate the neutrino flux of the NuMI beamline.
MINERvA measures the probability that an electron neutrino interacts with a nucleus inside the MINERvA detector and produces an electron and no other particles besides protons and neutrons.
In today’s Wine and Cheese seminar, MINERvA will present a measurement of the probability that an electron neutrino interacts with a nucleus inside the MINERvA detector and produces an electron and no other particles besides protons and neutrons.