Date: Wednesday 1st November 2000
Title: MINOS - The Main Injector Neutrinos Oscillation Search
Speaker: Dr. Alfons Weber (Oxford)
Abstract
Since a few years several experiments indicate that
Neutrinos exhibit a behaviour not predicted by the standard model
of particle physics: one neutrino flavour may transform itself into
another. MINOS will be the first experiment to measure these neutrino
oscillations (suggested by the Superkamiokande atmospheric neutrino
measurements) in a well controlled environment.
Neutrinos produced by the Fermilab main injector, will be measured
by the two MINOS detectors. One will be located at the Fermilab site
to measure the neutrino beam composition at production, the other will
measure it 730 km away after oscillation may have modified the beam
composition.
The talk will summarise current indications for neutrino oscillations,
the status of the MINOS experiment and its sensitivity.