Precision Neutrino Studies with MINOS and MINERvA

威廉和玛丽学院正在费米实验室参与Minerva实验，该实验的科学计划包括对中微子散射中的激射末态、此类相互作用中微扰和非微扰QCD制度之间的转变以及弹性、深度非弹性和超前向区的轴向电流进行高速率研究。Minerva建议在各种原子核上开展这一计划，以系统地探测中微子诱导的核效应，这对正在进行的其他中微子实验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素，这是该计划的一个方面，威廉和玛丽小组将在其中发挥管理作用，并对探测器的生产、组装和表征负有重要责任。该集团将为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。William小组还将广泛参与测试束的数据收集和测试束数据的分析。该研究计划包括物理学家发展过程中所有阶段的导师和学生。这项研究的更广泛影响是通过整合本科生、研究生和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研究计划来实现的。

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.