Precision Neutrino Studies with MINOS and MINERvA

使用 MINOS 和 MINERvA 进行精密中微子研究

• 批准号: 0505417
• 负责人: Jeffrey Nelson
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: College of William and Mary
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0505417&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Precision; Neutrino; Studies; MINOS; MINERvA

The College of William and Mary is participating in the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab, whose scientific program consists of high rate studies of excusive final states in neutrino scattering, of the transition between the perturbative and the non-perturbative QCD regime in such interactions, and of the axial current in the elastic, deep inelastic and off-forward regimes. MINERvA proposes to carry out this program on various nuclei to systematically probe neutrino-induced nuclear effects, which has important impact for other ongoing and future neutrino experiments. The MINERvA detector has numerous scintillation elements, an aspect of the program in which the William and Mary group will play a management role, as well as having important responsibilities for detector production, assembly and characterization. The group will produce all the scintillator assemblies for the MINERvA Tracking Prototype and half of the assemblies for the main MINERvA detector. The William group will also participate extensively in data collection with the test beam and analysis of the test beam data. The research program includes mentors and students at all stages in the physicist development pipeline. The broader impact for this research is achieved by integrating research with undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and extending this approach to incorporating science teachers in the MINERvA research program.

威廉玛丽学院正在参与费米实验室的 MINERvA 实验，该实验的科学计划包括对中微子散射中的专有终态、这种相互作用中微扰和非微扰 QCD 状态之间的转变以及弹性、深层非弹性和偏前状态中的轴向电流的高速研究。 MINERvA 提议在各种原子核上开展该计划，以系统地探测中微子引起的核效应，这对其他正在进行和未来的中微子实验具有重要影响。 MINERvA 探测器有许多闪烁元件，威廉和玛丽小组将在该项目中发挥管理作用，并对探测器的生产、组装和表征负有重要责任。 该小组将为 MINERvA 跟踪原型生产所有闪烁体组件，并为 MINERvA 主探测器生产一半组件。威廉小组还将广泛参与测试光束的数据收集和测试光束数据的分析。 该研究计划包括物理学家发展管道各个阶段的导师和学生。这项研究的更广泛影响是通过将本科生、研究生、博士后研究人员的研究整合起来，并将这种方法扩展到将科学教师纳入 MINERvA 研究计划中来实现的。