RUI: Search for Exotic Particles at the MiniBooNE Experiment

这项提案要求巴克内尔大学的一个小组支持一项基于费米拉实验室MiniBooNE实验的实验基本粒子物理研究和教育计划。这项实验涉及对卡门时间反常的研究，以及寻找中性重轻子、稀有中微子和中性超对称和类轴子粒子。卡门异常是在卢瑟福·阿普尔顿实验室的ISIS散裂中子设施的卡门实验中检测到的过量中微子事件，可能是由于一种罕见的非标准模型p+衰变模式：M+Q0，其中Q0表示一个大质量、中性、弱相互作用的不稳定粒子。对异常现象的研究需要对可能的背景贡献进行全面调查，这是巴克内尔小组拟议工作的主要组成部分。这项工作将与一群本科生合作完成。

This proposal requests support for a group at Bucknell University for a program of research and education in experimental elementary particle physics based on the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab. The experiment involves an investigation of the KARMEN timing anomaly and a search for neutral heavy leptons, sterile neutrinos and neutral supersymmetric and axion-like particles. The KARMEN anomaly is an excess of neutrino events detected in the KARMEN experiment at the ISIS spallation neutron facility at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and may be due to a rare non-Standard Model p+ decay mode: m+Q0 where Q0 denotes a massive, neutral, weakly interacting unstable particle. The study of the anomaly requires a comprehensive investigation of possible background contributions, the main component of the proposed work of the Bucknell group. The work will be performed in collaboration with a group of undergraduates.