RA to work on MINOS
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Oxford Physics
Abstract
MINOS is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Neutrinos come in 3 different favours and MINOS can measure how one of these can transform into the two others. MINOS investigates this transitions, which are also called oscillations and measures how muon neutrinos can transform themselves into electron and tau neutrinos. The experiment makes precision measurements of the neutrino properties that govern these transitions. This grant will allow to capitalise of the substantial investment that STFC made in the NuMI/MINOS facility and to continue the exploitation of the experiment.
Publications
Adamson P
(2010)
Neutrino and antineutrino inclusive charged-current cross section measurements with the MINOS near detector
in Physical Review D
Adamson P
(2010)
Search for Lorentz invariance and CPT violation with the MINOS far detector.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2010)
Search for sterile neutrino mixing in the MINOS long-baseline experiment
in Physical Review D
Adamson P
(2010)
New constraints on muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS
in Physical Review D
Adamson P
(2010)
Observation of muon intensity variations by season with the MINOS far detector
in Physical Review D
Adamson P
(2011)
Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavor mixing by MINOS.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2011)
Improved search for Muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations in MINOS.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2011)
Active to sterile neutrino mixing limits from neutral-current interactions in MINOS.
in Physical review letters
Adamson P
(2011)
Search for the disappearance of muon antineutrinos in the NuMI neutrino beam
in Physical Review D
Adamson P
(2011)
Observation in the MINOS far detector of the shadowing of cosmic rays by the sun and moon
in Astroparticle Physics
Description | Neutrinos are some of the most abundent particles in the univers. The MINOS experiment has measured on how one type of neutrino can transform itself into another. It laid the fundation to properly understand the effect of neutrino oscillation, which in the future could help to explain whay there is more matter than anti-matter in the universe. |
Exploitation Route | The research ouputs of the experiment are used to inform the design of future more sensitve experiments. |
Sectors | Other |
URL | http://www-numi.fnal.gov/Minos/ |
Description | The research has been used to inform the future direction in neutrino physics. Also researcher were trained in data analysis and was working in the digital industry. He has now moved into the financial service industry. |
First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Other |
Impact Types | Economic |
Description | RA for LBNE |
Amount | $70,000 (USD) |
Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
Sector | Public |
Country | United States |
Start | 10/2010 |
End | 03/2013 |
Description | MINOS |
Organisation | Multiplicom N.V. |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Leading calibration effort for MINOS detectors Analysing data and publishing results concerning cosmic rays |
Collaborator Contribution | providing access to MINOS experimental data |
Impact | calibrated data, several publications, operating support for detector |
Start Year | 2006 |