Jyosna Osta (Fermilab)
Probing Neutrino and Nuclear Physics with charged current analyses in MINERvA
MINERvA is a few-GeV neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment, stationed in the high intensity NuMI beam line at Fermilab. It has been taking data since November 2009 and completed construction in March 2010. MINERvA aims to make precision measurements of low energy neutrino interactions, both in support of neutrino oscillation experiments and as a pure weak probe of the nuclear medium. For this, the experiment employs a fine-grained, high resolution detector. The active region is composed of plastic scintillator with additional targets of helium, carbon, iron, lead and water placed upstream of the active region. In this seminar, we will take a look at results from analyses probing the nuclear effects on charged current events in the iron, lead and plastic of the detector as well as results from analyses studying the charged current quasi-electric scattering and pion production on the active plastic target, using neutrinos and anti-neutrinos. We will also discuss MINERvA's on-going analyses with respect to results in the near future and the prospects for future measurements.
Apr 15 at 4pm in Geo/Phys 407