Antineutrino Oscillations and a Search for Non-standard Interactions with the MINOS.
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Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:951621875 |
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Rating | : 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Download or read book Antineutrino Oscillations and a Search for Non-standard Interactions with the MINOS. written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MINOS searches for neutrino oscillations using the disappearance of muon neutrinos from the NuMI beam at Fermilab between two detectors. The Near Detector, located near the source, measures the beam composition before flavor change occurs. The energy spectrum is measured again at the Far Detector after neutrinos travel a distance. The mixing angle and mass splitting between the second and third mass states are extracted from the energy dependent difference between the spectra at the two detectors. NuMI is able to produce an antineutrino-enhanced beam as well as a neutrino-enhanced beam. Collecting data in antineutrino-mode allows the direct measurement of antineutrino oscillation parameters. From the analysis of the antineutrino mode data we measure $