RUI: Search for Exotic Particles at the MiniBooNE Experiment

该提案要求支持巴克内尔大学的一个小组，以费米实验室的MiniBooNE实验为基础，开展实验基本粒子物理学的研究和教育计划。 该实验涉及对卡门计时异常的调查以及对中性重轻子、无菌中微子以及中性超对称和类轴子粒子的寻找。KARMEN异常是在卢瑟福阿普尔顿实验室的ISIS散粒中子设施的KARMEN实验中检测到的中微子事件过量，可能是由于罕见的非标准模型p+衰变模式：m+Q0，其中Q0表示大质量，中性，弱相互作用的不稳定粒子。对异常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。这项工作将与一组本科生合作进行。

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.