MiniBooNE%20and%20n%20Oscillations

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MiniBooNE and n Oscillations
Magnetic Focussing Horn
Neutrino Event Display
Inside View of Detector
Sensitivity to Oscillations
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Outline

• A short course in the physics of n oscillations
• What are neutrinos? Oscillations?
• n oscillation landscape
• Experimental results Neutrinos are
  surprising!
• MiniBooNE
• An experiment in progress
• Experiment description
• Neutrino data
• Oscillation sensitivity
• Can we improve statistics?

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Neutrinos 101

• Particle physics is described by
• The Standard Model
• Matter Fermions
• Quarks and leptons
• Doublets
• Bound vs. free
• Three generations of each
• Force Carriers Bosons
• EM Photon
• Strong force Gluon
• Weak force W,Z
• Neutrinos are the lightest leptons
• Massless in the standard model
• Interact only via weak force

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Neutrinos 102

• Neutrinos are created as weak-flavor eigenstates
• e, m, t
• Neutral Current Interactions
• Z exchange
• Neutrino in, neutrino out
• Charged Current Interactions
• W exchange
• Mix within the doublets
• Neutrino in, negative lepton out
• Antineutrino in, positive lepton out
• That's how we know a neutrino's flavor

Feynman Diagrams
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Neutrinos 111

• The weak force is weak
• s(ne) 10-40cm2
• s(nN) 10-36cm2
• For comparison s(pp) 10-25cm2
• 11-15 orders of magnitude difference!
• Reason W,Z are heavy
• 80, 91 GeV/c2
• As an example
• A 10 MeV neutrino from the sun has a mean free
  path of several light years in lead
• Hundreds of billions of neutrinos from the sun
  pass through every square inch of you each second

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Neutrinos 112

• Detecting neutrinos is very difficult!
• Needed
• Intense sources
• The sun
• Cosmic rays
• Nuclear reactors
• Particle accelerators
• Large detectors
• Many targets
• Patience

Neutrino Source
Neutrino Detector
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Neutrinos 121

• Neutrinos are seen by collider expts only as
  missing energy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• Careful analysis of missing energy in Z0 decays
  reveals an interesting result
• Only three generations of light neutrinos!

Invisible width of the Z0 measured by LEP expts
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Neutrinos 122 Mass?

• In the standard model, neutrinos are massless
• But it's difficult to confirm this
• Direct mass searches yield limits
• ne tritium decay m lt 3 eV
• nm pion decay m lt 0.2 MeV
• nt tau decay m lt 18 MeV
• Compare to hadron masses
• pions 140 Mev
• kaons 500 MeV
• protons 1 GeV
• neutrons 1 GeV
• Indirect mass searches use
• quantum mechanics ... and indicate non-zero
  neutrino mass!

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Neutrinos 201 Oscillations

• IF
• Neutrinos have (different) masses
• Weak states are a mixture of the mass states
  
  
  
  
  
  
• THEN
• A neutrino created as one specific flavor may
  later be detected as a neutrino of a different
  flavor
• Why? Neutrinos propagate as mass eigenstates

nm
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n source
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n 202 Oscillation Probability

• Oscillation probability between two flavor states
  depends on
• Two fundamental parameters
• Dm2m12-m22 - "period"
• mass difference between states
• sin22q - "amplitude"
• mixing between flavors
• Oscillations don't measure the absolute mass
  scale
• Two experimental parameters
• L distance from source to detector
• E neutrino energy

• Two possible experiments in this example
• nm disappearance
• P(nm?nm)
• ne appearance
• P(nm?ne)

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n 211 Detecting Oscillations

• Consider nm?ne oscillations
• Disappearance
• Detect fewer nm events than expected
• Should have a characteristic energy signature
  oscillation probability depends on E!
• Appearance
• Detect more ne events than expected
• Oscillation depends on E the events that
  disappeared in the blue plot are related to those
  appearing in the red plot
• Goal Determine Dm2, sin22q

Disappearance
N nm
Expected
Detected
nm Energy (MeV)
N ne
Appearance
Detected
Expected
ne Energy (MeV)
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n 212 Presenting Oscillations

• L and E determine the Dm2 sensitivity region
• sin22q gives amplitude of oscillations
• No signal exclusion regions
• Above and to the right excluded
• Below and to the left cannot be ruled out
• Signal allowed regions
• Shown by shaded areas specifying Dm2 and sin2 2q
• Size of allowed region determined by experimental
  uncertainties

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n 868 3 generations

• There are actually three generations of neutrinos
  that can oscillate into each other
• MNSP matrix describes neutrino mixing
• Analogous to CKM matrix for quarks
• Except for the values of the matrix elements!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

0.8 0.5 ? 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.6 0.7
MNS large mixing angles
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Current Oscillation Picture

• Three different oscillation signals observed (so
  far...)
• Allowed regions indicated
• Note The true answers are actually single
  points!
• Solar neutrinos Dm210-5eV2
• Atmospheric Dm210-3eV2
• LSND Dm21eV2
• Yet to be confirmed
• Only mass differences, not absolute scale

Reactor Limit
LSND ?nm??ne
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Neutrinos from the Sun

• The sun is fueled by fusion reactions
• 41H 2e- ? 4He 2ne 6g
• More reaction chains follow...
• Neutrinos are produced copiously
• Note all produce ne, below 10MeV
• But when expts were built to search for them,
  they found too few!
• Many techniques
• All looking for CC reactions (ne)
• Are the solar models wrong? Are the experiments
  wrong?

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Solar n Results

• SNO had the ability to see neutral current (n?n)
  as well as charged current (n?l?) reactions
• They can see all flavors---
• Oscillations!
• Solution
• Mixing angle q32
• Dm2 8.2?10-5eV2
• KamLAND reactor antineutrinos
• Confirm solar result
• Spectral distortion!
• ?n vs. n
• The experiments were right!

KamLAND En
KamLAND Results
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Atmospheric Neutrinos

• Neutrinos produced by cosmic ray induced air
  showers
• ?nm and nm, ?ne and ne
• High energy cosmic rays are isotropic
• Same rates on this side of the Earth as the other
• Super-K measures a difference in flux as a
  function of zenith angle
• ?nm,nm disappearance

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Atmospheric n Oscillations

• L/E characteristic of oscillations
• Best fit to data
• Mixing angle 45 (Maximal!)
• Quite unexpected!
• Dm2 2.4?10-3eV2
• Mix of ?n and n
• This result is confirmed by other experiments
  Soudan, MACRO
• K2K send n from KEK accelerator to Super-K
• Compare fluxes in near detectors (200m) to fluxes
  at Super-K (250km)
• See evidence for nm disappearance
• Similar oscillation parameters

hep-ex/0404034
http//neutrino.kek.jp/news/2004.06.10/index-e.htm
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Atmospheric n Oscillations

• L/E characteristic of oscillations
• Best fit to data
• Mixing angle 45 (Maximal!)
• Quite unexpected!
• Dm2 2.4?10-3eV2
• Mix of ?n and n
• This result is confirmed by other experiments
  Soudan, MACRO
• K2K send n from KEK accelerator to Super-K
• Compare fluxes in near detectors (200m) to fluxes
  at Super-K (250km)
• See evidence for nm disappearance
• Similar oscillation parameters

hep-ex/0404034
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Atmos n in the future

• MINOS will be able to measure the atmospheric
  oscillation parameters much better
• Can run in ?n and n mode
• Taking data right now!

MINOS sensitivity
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Accelerator Neutrinos

• Many null result accelerator neutrino experiments
• Positive result LSND Experiment at LANL
• Beam m decay at rest
• L/E 1m/MeV
• L 30m
• 20lt E?n lt 55 MeV
• ?nm??ne ?
• Appearance search
• Clean detection
• signal
• Inverse b decay

p? mnm
m ? e?nmne
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Inside LSND
Remember these PMTs! (photo- multiplier tubes)
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The LSND signal

• ?nm??ne oscillation probability
  0.2640.0670.045

3.8s excess!
hep-ex/0203023

• KARMEN2 and LSND collaborators performed joint
  analysis on both data sets - allowed regions
  remain!
• Dm2 1eV2, q 2

hep-ex/0104049
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Current Oscillation Summary
LSND Dm2 1eV2 q 2
Atmospheric oscillations Dm2 10-3eV2 q 45
Solar oscillations Dm2 10-5 eV2 q 32

• Problem That's too many Dm2 regions!
• Should find Dm212 Dm223 Dm213

10-5 10-3 ? 1
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The 3 Dm2 Problem

• LSND signal not oscillations?
• Anomalous muon decay m?e ?ne?nm
• New TWIST result rules out
• hep-ex/0409063, hep-ex/0410045
• If it is oscillations, it indicates
  that our model
  is incomplete
• Sterile Neutrinos
• nm?ns and then ns?ne
• LEP results require these
  extra ns have no weak
  coupling
• LSND needs to be confirmed experimentally!

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NEW physics beyond the standard model
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Resolving LSND MiniBooNE

• Want sensitivity to the same oscillation
  parameters as LSND
• Different systematic errors
• Choose similar L/E
• Higher E
• Longer L
• First look for nm?ne oscillations
• Experiment description
• Neutrino data
• Analysis progress
• Oscillation sensitivity

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MiniBooNE Collaboration
Y. Liu, I. Stancu Alabama S. Koutsoliotas
Bucknell R.A. Johnson, J.L. Raaf Cincinnati T.
Hart, R. Nelson, M. Wilking, E.D. Zimmerman
Colorado A. Aguilar-Arevalo, L.Bugel, J.M.
Conrad, J. Link, J. Monroe, D. Schmitz, M.H.
Shaevitz, M. Sorel, G.P. Zeller Columbia D.
Smith Embry Riddle L.Bartoszek, C. Bhat, S J.
Brice, B.C. Brown, D.A. Finley, R. Ford,
F.G.Garcia, P. Kasper, T. Kobilarcik, I.
Kourbanis, A. Malensek, W. Marsh, P. Martin,
F. Mills, C. Moore, P. Nienaber, E. Prebys,
A.D. Russell, P. Spentzouris, R. Stefanski, T.
Williams Fermilab D. C. Cox, T. Katori, H.-O.
Meyer, C. Polly, R. Tayloe Indiana G.T. Garvey,
A. Green, C. Green, W.C. Louis G.McGregor,
S.McKenney, G.B. Mills, H. Ray, V.Sandberg, B.
Sapp, R. Schirato, R.G.VandeWater, D.H. White
Los Alamos R. Imlay, W. Metcalf, S.A.
Ouedraogo, M. Sung, M.O. Wascko Louisiana
State University J. Cao, Y. Liu, B.P. Roe, H.
Yang Michigan A.O. Bazarko, P.D. Meyers, R.B.
Patterson, F.C. Shoemaker, H.A.Tanaka
Princeton P. Nienaber Saint Mary's of
Minnesota E.A. Hawker Western Illinois A.
Curioni, B.T. Fleming Yale
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MiniBooNE Overview

• 8 GeV protons from Fermilab Booster
• Beryllium target

• Magnetic horn to focus mesons
• Over 96M pulses - a world record!
• Reversible polarity - ?n mode

• 50 m decay region
• gt99 pure nm,?nm beam
• 500 m dirt
• nm?ne?
• 800 ton mineral oil detector
• 1520 PMTs (1280240 veto)

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Neutrino Flux
nm
m
p/K ? mnm p-/K- ? m- ?nm
K/K0L ? pene m ? e ne ?nm

• Use external meson production data to predict
  rates
• Accelerator neutrino jargon POT proton
  on target
• 99.5 are muon neutrinos
• nm and ?nm

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MiniBooNE Detector

• 800 tons of pure mineral oil
• 6m radius steel sphere
• 2m earth overburden
• 1520 8" PMTs
• 1280 in main tank (sphere)
• 240 in veto region (shell)
• LSND PMTs/New PMTs
• DAQ records t,Q
• Hits

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Neutrinos in oil

• A neutrino can do many things in mineral oil...
• About 75 CC, 25 NC

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Neutrinos in oil

• A neutrino can do many things in mineral oil...
• It can bounce off a nucleus and
• Eject a proton
• NC elastic events 16

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Neutrinos in oil

• A neutrino can do many things in mineral oil...
• It can bounce off a nucleus and
• Change into its charged partner
• Eject a proton
• CC quasi elastic events 39

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Neutrinos in oil

• A neutrino can do many things in mineral oil...
• It can bounce off a nucleus and
• Eject an excited nuleon state
• Or it can tickle a nucleus and emit a pion
• NC single pion events 7

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Neutrinos in oil

• A neutrino can do many things in mineral oil...
• It can bounce off a nucleus and
• Change into its charged partner
• Eject an excited nucleon
• CC single pion events 25

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Enlightening Mineral Oil

• Charged particles passing through mineral oil
  produce visible light in two ways
• Cherenkov radiation
• Light emitted by oil if particle v gt c/n
• Similar to a sonic boom
• Scintillation
• Excited/ionized molecules emit light when
  electrons drop to lower E levels

Molecular energy levels of oil
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Optics of Mineral Oil

• Cherenkov light
• proportional to b
• Scintillation
• dE/dx
• time delay
• Scattering (Rayleigh)
• prompt
• 1cos2q
• l4
• Fluorescence
• isotropic
• time delay
• spectrum
• Absorption

• Michel electrons
• Cosmic muons
• Laser diffuse light
• Laser pencil beam
• Scintillation (IUCF) w/p
• Scintillation (FNAL) w/m
• repeated w/p (IUCF)
• Goniometry (Princeton)
• Fluorescence spectroscopy (FNAL)
• Time resolved spectroscopy (JHU)
• Attenuation (FNAL)
• multiple devices

Creation
In Situ
Ex Situ
Propagation
Work nearing completion...
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MiniBooNE Detector

• Neutrino interactions create energetic charged
  particle emission

PMT

• PMTs collect photons, record t,Q
• Reconstruct tracks by fitting time and angular
  distributions

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Particle Images in MiniBooNE

• Muons
• Sharp, clear rings
• Long, straight tracks
• Electrons
• Scattered rings
• Multiple scattering
• Radiative processes
• Neutral Pions
• Double rings
• Decays to two photons
• Photons pair produce

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Particle Images in MiniBooNE

• Muons
• Sharp, clear rings
• Long, straight tracks
• Electrons
• Scattered rings
• Multiple scattering
• Radiative processes
• Neutral Pions
• Double rings
• Decays to two photons
• Photons pair produce

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Particle Images in MiniBooNE

• Muons
• Sharp, clear rings
• Long, straight tracks
• Electrons
• Scattered rings
• Multiple scattering
• Radiative processes
• Neutral Pions
• Double rings
• Decays to two photons
• Photons pair produce

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Particle Images in MiniBooNE

• Muons
• Sharp, clear rings
• Long, straight tracks
• Electrons
• Scattered rings
• Multiple scattering
• Radiative processes
• Neutral Pions
• Double rings
• Decays to two photons
• Photons pair produce

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Detector Calibration

• Why we think we understand the detector ...
• PMTs calibrated with laser system
• Calibration data samples span oscillation signal
  energy range
• Electron data samples
• Michel electrons
• p0 photons
• Cosmic Muons
• Stopping, through-going
• Very important most neutrino events have muons

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PMT Calibration
Laser light distributed to 4 flasks throughout
the detector Known light source position, known
light emission time
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Cosmic Muon Calibration
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Muon Energy Calibration

• Visible energy electron equivalent energy

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Looking at Tank Data
Noise Hits
Stopping
Through-going
Stopping Muons
Through-going Muons
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Looking at Tank Data
Noise Hits
Stopping
Muon Cut Veto Hitslt6
Through-going
Stopping Muons
Through-going Muons
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Looking at Tank Data

• Putting it all together...

Radioactive Decays, Instrumental Effects
Stopping
Michel Electrons
Through-going
Cosmic Muons
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Looking at Tank Data

• Putting it all together...

Radioactive Decays, Instrumental Effects
Stopping
Michel Electrons
Michel Cut Tank Hitsgt200
Through-going
Cosmic Muons
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Triggering on Neutrinos

• MiniBooNE's neutrino trigger is unbiased
• The Booster dumps protons onto our target in
  1.6ms intervals, several times per second
• Beam spill
• We know exactly when neutrinos from the beam are
  passing through the detector
• When this happens, we record all detector
  activity in a 20ms interval around the beam spill

Protons on target
Time(ms)
1.6 ms
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Triggering on Neutrinos

• MiniBooNE's neutrino trigger is unbiased
• The Booster dumps protons onto our target in
  1.6ms intervals, several times per second
• Beam spill
• We know exactly when neutrinos from the beam are
  passing through the detector
• When this happens, we record all detector
  activity in a 20ms interval around the beam spill

Protons on target
Neutrinos in detector
Time(ms)
1.6 ms
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Triggering on Neutrinos

• MiniBooNE's neutrino trigger is unbiased
• The Booster dumps protons onto our target in
  1.6ms intervals, several times per second
• Beam spill
• We know exactly when neutrinos from the beam are
  passing through the detector
• When this happens, we record all detector
  activity in a 20ms interval around the beam spill

Protons on target
Neutrinos in detector
Recorded event
Time(ms)
20 ms
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Picking out Neutrinos

• Times of hit-clusters (sub-events)
• Beam spill (1.6ms) is clearly evident
• simple cuts eliminate cosmic backgrounds
• Neutrino Candidate Cuts
• lt6 veto PMT hits
• Gets rid of muons
• gt200 tank PMT hits
• Gets rid of Michels

Beam and Cosmic BG
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Picking out Neutrinos

• Times of hit-clusters (sub-events)
• Beam spill (1.6ms) is clearly evident
• simple cuts eliminate cosmic backgrounds
• Neutrino Candidate Cuts
• lt6 veto PMT hits
• Gets rid of muons
• gt200 tank PMT hits
• Gets rid of Michels

Beam and Michels
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Picking out Neutrinos

• Times of hit-clusters (sub-events)
• Beam spill (1.6ms) is clearly evident
• simple cuts eliminate cosmic backgrounds
• Neutrino Candidate Cuts
• lt6 veto PMT hits
• Gets rid of muons
• gt200 tank PMT hits
• Gets rid of Michels
• Only neutrinos are left!

Beam Only
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Neutrinos keep coming!

• Measured rate of neutrino candidates (per 1E15
  protons!)
• Neutrino candidates
• gt200 tank hits
• lt6 veto hits
• Constant rate over time
• c2/d.o.f. 49/53
• Tests performance of
• Tank DAQ
• Calibration stability
• Data processing chain
• 480,000 neutrino events recorded so far...
• 4.6?1020 POT

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Reconstructing Oscillations

• To search for oscillations, need neutrino energy
• Reconstruct neutrino energy from particle
  
  tracks in detector
• Develop neutrino energy reconstruction with
  nm data, check with muon
  calibration data
• apply to nm?ne appearance search
• CCQE nm n ? m- p
• Largest event sample, simplest kinematics
• Fit for single muon Cherenkov ring
• CCp nm p ? m- p p
• Search for events with two Michel electrons
• Fit for dominant Cherenkov rings

Disappearance
N
Expected
Detected
nm Energy (MeV)
Appearance
N
Detected
Expected
nm Energy (MeV)
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Charged Current Quasi-Elastics
Measure energy and angle from visible
light prompt Cherenkov, delayed scintillation
Reconstruct En to search for oscillations
nm
m-
W
p
n
Fermi motion of target nucleon, binding energy
isotropic scintillation light, nuclear
interactions
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Reconstructed Tracks
PRELIMINARY
PMT
PRELIMINARY
Discrepancy between data and Monte Carlo --- not
a reconstruction effect, as we know from the
cosmic muon analysis
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CCQE n Energy
nm CCQE Events
PRELIMINARY
Can reconstruct the neutrino energy with just the
energy and direction of the outgoing muon.
Neutrino energy resolution 15-20
Will use this distribution to search for nm
disappearance. The deficit could be anywhere
from 1 to 10.
Note both curves unit area normalized
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Oscillations at MiniBooNE
Sensitivity to nm?ne oscillations
MiniBooNE sensitivity curves
LSND allowed regions
Statistics Limited until 2?1021 POT
Can we improve our statistics?
www-boone.fnal.gov/publicpages/news.html
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CCp Events

• m-
• Reconstruct Cherenkov ring to get energy,
  momentum vector
• Michel electron
  
  
• Resonance
• Decays promptly
• Nucleon
• Scint. only
• Pion
• Cherenkov ring
• Michel electron

Recall 25 of MiniBooNE events are CCp

• nm
• Goal reconstruct En
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

m-
nm
W
Resonance
p
Nucleon
N
Eventual goal of this analysis is a search for
oscillations using single pion events
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CCp Events

• m-
• Reconstruct Cherenkov ring to get energy,
  momentum vector
• Michel electron
  
  
• Resonance
• Decays promptly
• Nucleon
• Scint. only
• Pion
• Cherenkov ring
• Michel electron

Recall 25 of MiniBooNE events are CCp

• nm
• Goal reconstruct En
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

m-
nm
W
Resonance
p
Nucleon
N
Multiple ring events Complex event
topologies Hard to reconstruct!
This is the analysis that Im working on.
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CCp Event in MiniBooNE

• Distribution of hits in time from one single event

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CCp Event in MiniBooNE

• Neutrino subevent
• Will use these hits to reconstruct neutrino
  properties

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CCp Event in MiniBooNE

• First Michel electron subevent
• Could be from m- or p(m) decay

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CCp Event in MiniBooNE

• Second Michel electron subevent
• Can use Michel subevents to help understand the
  neutrino subevent

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Using the Michel Electrons

• Neutrino events with 2 Michels
• The DAQ records the (sub)events in time order

• Re-order Michels spatially
• Separate Michels by distance to end of m- track
• m- capture on C (8)
• t20261.5 ns
• m do not capture
• t2197.030.04 ns

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CCp Muon Lifetimes
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Detector Observables

• Energy in Cherenkov ring only

PMT

• statistical errors only on data and MC!
• Reasonable agreement in muon energy
• Discrepancy in angle, as in CCQE

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Reconstructing n Energy

• Starting out with simplest possible assumptions
• Reconstruct CCp interaction as quasi-elastic,
  with a resonant state instead of a recoil nucleon
• Assume target nucleon is at rest
• Assume resonance is D(1232 MeV)
• Assume the single ring fitter picks out the muon
• MC this is true 75
• Working toward oscillation search

nm
m-
W
p
D
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Next steps for MiniBooNE
MiniBooNE Followup Flow Chart
MiniBooNE Followup Flow Chart
First MiniBooNE oscillation results in 2005
No signal seen in n mode
Signal seen in n mode
Precision measurement of oscillation parameters
Run in ?n mode
Approved for running in 2006
ns content?
No signal seen in ?n mode
Signal seen in ?n mode
CP Violation?
NEW physics beyond Standard Model!
CP, CPT Violation
of steriles?
www.aps.org/neutrino/index.html
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Conclusions

• Parting Thoughts
• Historically, neutrinos have been surprising
• It's a field where experiments have led theories
• This is an exciting time to be working with
  neutrinos

• Open Questions
• Are there sterile neutrinos?
• How many generations?
• What is the absolute mass scale for neutrinos?
• Why are neutrino mixing angles so different from
  quark sector?

Stay tuned ... (most likely for something
unexpected!)
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Proton Delivery
Already the largest data set at these energies
- ever!
http//www-boone.fnal.gov/publicpages/progress_mon
itor.html
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Future of CCp Analysis

• Develop multi-ring fitters
• Use different Cherenkov profiles for muons, pion
• Incorporate Michel positions into fitter
• Assess systematic errors
• Cross section measurement
• Identify ne CCp events
• Oscillation searches
• Appearance
• Disappearance

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Charged Current Events
P. Lipari, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 112, 274
(2002) (NuInt01)
MiniBooNE
K2K
Super-K atmospheric ns
Range of NuMI Possibilities
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ne Event rates

• ne Appearance Analysis, 1E21 pot
• Expect to see 1000 ne CC QE
• 300 oscillation signal events
• 350 Intrinsic ne in beam
• K, K0, m decay
• 430 misID events
• m, p0,D

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Measuring Dm2
signal
Intrinsic
p0 misID
High, 1?1021
Energy (GeV)
Low, 1?1021
Energy (GeV)
www-boone.fnal.gov/publicpages/news.html

• Can differentiate high and low Dm2 regions with
  1E21 POT
• High vs. low Dm2 is important for near future
  experiments

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Little Muon Counter

• Pions and kaons both decay to muons (99.9,
  63.4)
• Different rest masses give pion and kaon decays
  different energy spectra
• LMC should accept only muons from kaon decay, not
  pion decay

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Muon Calibration Checks

• Through-going muons calibrate correction for
  energy lost in cube
• Amount of charge seen by cube PMT converted to
  energy deposited (MIPs)
• Use Michels to verify that the energy correction
  works
• Applying correction to Michels from cubes gives a
  much better match to Michels in oil

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Muons in the Oil
Michel endpoint resolution 13.8

• Use calibration hardware to determine the event
  paramters (x, t, u)
• Assemble corrected times, angles using known
  track center
• Find Cherenkov rings and time peaks, isotropic
  and delayed emission

30cm
60cm
1m
2m
4m
3m
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HARP

• Experiment at CERN designed to measure pion and
  kaon momentum spectra from proton Beryllium
  interactions
• Used MiniBooNE replica target slugs (5l, 100l)
• Protons at 8.9 GeV/c
• Exactly like the Booster
• Pion flux distributions within six months, kaon
  within a year

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Parting Thought
MiniBooNE is one in a long line of great n
physics experiments at FNAL
Time
NOnA
Pentaquarks?
MINERvA
CP?
FINeSSE?
2010
Precision s, Form factors
MINOS
Ds Measurement?
?n/n separation of atmospheric results
MiniBooNE
2000
CPT?
DONuT
nm?ne and nm?ns
NuTeV
nt
1990
CCFR
sin2qw
Structure functions
15' Bubble Chamber
DIS, Form factors
1980
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