2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Status of Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments

16 Jun 2015, 15:45

30m

CAB 235 (University of Alberta)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD) T3-5 Study of Neutrino Oscillations (PPD-DTP-DNP) / Études des oscillations de neutrinos (PPD-DPT-DPN)

Speaker

Dr Nicholas Hastings (University of Regina)

Description

The current generation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments employ an off-axis ${\nu }_{\mu }$ (or ${\overline{\nu }}_{\mu }$) beam produced by the decay of pions created when a proton beam strikes a target. The beam is monitored at detector facilities near the production point before travelling hundreds of kilometres to a far detector. Aiming the beam centre slightly away from the far detector provides the off-axis configuration which selects a narrow energy band beam tuned to maximize the oscillation probability. The status of these experiments will be presented. The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment consists of a ${\nu }_{\mu }$ beam produced at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Centre (J-PARC) in Tokai on the East coast of Japan, which is monitored by a suite of detectors before travelling 295 km to the Super-Kamiokande (SK) water Cerenkov detector. T2K has been in operation since 2010 and has been continually releasing new and exciting neutrino oscillation results. The most recent precision ${\nu }_{\mu }\to {\nu }_e$ appearance and ${\nu }_{\mu }$ disappearance oscillation measurements as well as initial results running the experiment in the ${\overline{\nu }}_{\mu }$ beam configuration will be presented. The NO$\nu$A experiment, utilizing the NuMI beam and a near detector at Fermilab and a far detector at a distance of 810 km, began operation in 2014. The current status of NO$\nu$A will also be shown.

Presentation materials

Slides

hastings-lbne.pdf