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12–16 Dec 2022
IISER Mohali
Asia/Kolkata timezone

Current Status of the Accelerator Neutrino Nucleon Interaction Experiment (ANNIE)

15 Dec 2022, 16:00
15m
LH3 (IISER Mohali)

LH3

IISER Mohali

Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Mohali, Sector 81, Knowledge city, SAS Nagar, Punjab, India

Speaker

Dr Sijith Edayath (Iowa State University, USA)

Description

The Accelerator Neutrino Nucleon Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) at Fermilab is designed to measure the final-state neutron multiplicity of the neutrino-nucleus interaction. The ANNIE's Gadolinium-loaded water Cherenkov detector is situated in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. The measurements of ANNIE are crucial for future long-baseline neutrino experiments since a better understanding of the neutrino-nucleus interaction will help to reduce the associated systematic uncertainties. ANNIE is the first neutrino experiment to deploy Large Area Picosecond Photodetectors (LAPPDs) technology in its detector. It will demonstrate the capabilities of LAPPDs in the water Cherenkov detector with a transformative impact on the photodetection-based neutrino detector technology. In this talk, I will briefly discuss the ANNIE detector system and the experiment's status, emphasizing the recent results.

Session Neutrino Physics

Author

Dr Sijith Edayath (Iowa State University, USA)

Presentation materials