Precision Neutrino Studies with MINOS and MINERvA

威廉玛丽学院参与了费米实验室的MINERvA实验，该实验的科学计划包括对中微子散射的最终态的高速率研究，在这种相互作用中微扰和非微扰QCD制度之间的转变，以及弹性，深度非弹性和向前体制中的轴向电流。MINERvA计划在不同的原子核上开展该项目，以系统地探测中微子诱导的核效应，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，威廉和玛丽集团将在该计划的一个方面发挥管理作用，并对探测器的生产、组装和表征负有重要责任。该集团将生产MINERvA跟踪原型的所有闪烁体组件和主MINERvA探测器的一半组件。William小组还将广泛参与试验梁的数据收集和试验梁数据的分析。该研究项目包括物理学家发展管道各个阶段的导师和学生。这项研究的广泛影响是通过整合本科生、研究生、博士后研究人员的研究，并将这种方法扩展到将科学教师纳入MINERvA研究计划。

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.