Friday 17 September 2010, 11:00h, at Nikhef in H331
Speaker: Zelimir Djurcic (Argonne National Laboratory)
Title: New Observations in the MiniBooNE Experiment
Abstract:
The MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation search experiment at Fermilab has recently reported results from a search for numubar -> nuebar oscillations, using a data sample corresponding to 5.66×1020 protons on target in anti-neutrino mode. The experiment is now sensitive to the excess of numubar -> nuebar events observed by the Los Alamos Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND). The data are consistent with numubar -> nuebar in the dm2 range of 0.1 to 1.0eV2 and with the evidence for antineutrino oscillations from LSND. I will discuss the MiniBooNE data in this presentation, as well as its interpretation and implications.