A Search for Muon Neutrino to Electron Neutrino Oscillations in the MINOS Experiment

• Main Author: Ochoa-Ricoux, Juan Pedro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Springer Theses
• Subjects: Physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Particle acceleration.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Numerical and Computational Physics.

A Search for Muon Neutrino to Electron Neutrino Oscillations in the MINOS Experiment is a tour de force that summarizes, clearly and in some depth, much of Ochoa’s vast body of work which has had a major impact on MINOS. The centerpiece of the thesis is the search for muon neutrino to electron neutr...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Neutrino Physics
• The MINOS Experiment
• Measuring q13 in MINOS
• A Novel Approach for Selecting ne CC Events
• Measuring the Backgrounds in the Near Detector
• Predicting the Far Detector Rates
• Systematic Errors and q13 Sensitivity
• Far Detector Data Analysis and ne Appearance Results
• Pushing the Neutrino Frontier
• Appendices.