MiniBooNE cross-talk

by Dr Carlo Giunti (INFN), Teppei Katori (Queen Mary University of London)

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/Zurich

Edificio U4-05 (Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, U2, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

Observation of a Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (Teppei Katori)
MiniBooNE is a short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Fermilab, USA. Recently,
MiniBooNE observed a significant unexplained excess of electron-neutrino candidate events from
a muon-neutrino dominant beam. This excess is potentially a signal of new physics and
understanding of it is important for the particle physics community. In this talk, I will describe
the MiniBooNE experiment, including the beamline, detector, and backgrounds to understand the
excess observed by MiniBooNE.
 

Theoretical Overview of the MiniBooNE Neutrino Anomaly (Carlo Giunti)
I will review the proposed explanations of the MiniBooNE Neutrino Anomaly:
active-sterile neutrino oscillations, nonstandard neutrino interactions, and sterile
neutrino decay.
 

giunti-190523-milano.pdf

TK_MB_Milano19.pdf