Precision Studies of Neutrino Interactions and Neutrino Mixing

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项为威廉与玛丽学院（College of William and Mary）的一项扩展研究项目提供支持，该项目涉及三位基本粒子物理学教员。该小组的成员积极参与了一系列精确的实验，目的是探索中微子振荡的本质，填补中微子之谜的缺失部分。在目前正在运行的MINOS长基线中微子振荡实验中，每个研究者领导分析小组或分析。在继续利用MINOS的数据并支持其运行的同时，该小组正在该计划的下一阶段，即MINERvA中微子散射实验和NOvA长基线实验中发挥主导作用，并期待以DUSEL设施为中心的远程计划。W&amp；M集团致力于让本科生参与研究，将其作为教育的重要组成部分。该提案将与该部门强大的REU计划相结合，每年为两名本科生提供尖端的研究经验，并将支持高级论文。该小组还维持一个中微子和地下物理的RET计划，使两名教师每年能够参加苏丹地下实验室的研究项目。W&amp；M小组的成员积极推动了历史上在粒子物理学中代表性不足的小组的参与。MINERvA有一支来自拉丁美洲大学的学生队伍，他们在该小组的指导下在费米实验室进行探测器调试工作。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award provides support for an expanded program of research involving three faculty members in elementary particle physics at the College of William and Mary. The members of the group are actively involved in a series of precision experiments with the goal of exploring the nature of neutrino oscillations and filling in the missing pieces of the neutrino puzzle. Each investigator leads analysis groups or analyses in the currently-running MINOS long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. While continuing to exploit the data from MINOS and support its operations, the group is adopting a leading role in the next phase of the program, namely the MINERvA neutrino-scattering experiment and the NOvA long-baseline experiment, and looks forward to a long-range program centered at the DUSEL facility. The W&M group is committed to engaging undergraduates in research as a vital component of their education. This proposal will enable cutting edge research experience for two undergraduate students per year, in conjunction with the department's robust REU program, and will support senior theses. The group also maintains a RET program in neutrino and underground physics which enables two teachers to participate in research projects at the Soudan Underground Laboratory each year. The members of the W&M group actively promote the participation of groups which have been historically underrepresented in particle physics. MINERvA has a significant contingent of students from Latin American universities working on detector commissioning at Fermilab who have been mentored by the group.