A Study of Neutrino Oscillations at the Fermilab Booster Beam

费米实验室助推束中微子振荡的研究

• 批准号: 9979783
• 负责人: Byron Roe
• 金额: $ 52.62万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2004-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9979783&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Study; Neutrino; Oscillations; Fermilab; Booster

This proposal requests support to wrap-up this University of Michigan group's research program on the L3 experiment at the CERN LEP collider and to embark on the Mini-BooNe experiment at Fermilab.The L3 experiment is now taking data above the W+W- threshold at the CERN LEP-II collider exploring a new energy range. These date are being examined to determine the mass and width of the W boson, to search for anomalous W interactions, and to search for new particles such as the Higgs boson and supersymmetric particles. The group intends to concentrate its effort on Higgs searches. Funding for continued L3 effort is requested in a separate proposal (see K. Riles, PHY-99 84997). This group expects its L3 effort to almost completely end by fall 2000.The Mini-BooNe experiment using the Fermilab booster beam is intended to make a definitive test of the tentative neutrino oscillation result, nm ne, observed by the LSND experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The putative LSND signal corresponds to a neutrino mass difference of a few tenths of an eV. This is a range of interest if neutrinos serve as the cosmological "hot" dark matter. This experiment is scheduled to begin taking data in 2001, and thus provides a good match to the expected end of the group's L3 activity.

该提案要求支持密歇根大学集团在Cern Lep Collider的L3实验的研究计划，并在Fermilab上启动Mini-Boone实验。L3实验现在正在将数据以上的数据进行，以上的数据以上是CERN LEP-II Collider的W+W-W-阈值。 正在检查这些日期以确定W玻色子的质量和宽度，以搜索异常的W相互作用，并搜索新粒子，例如Higgs玻色子和超对称颗粒。 该小组打算将其努力集中在希格斯搜索上。 在另一项提案中要求继续进行L3努力的资金（请参阅K. Riles，Phy-99 84997）。 该组预计其L3的努力几乎完全在2000年秋季结束。使用Fermilab Booster Beam使用的迷你BOONE实验旨在对Los Alamos国家实验室的LSND实验观察到暂定性中微子振荡结果的确切测试，NM NE。 推定的LSND信号对应于中微子质量差异十分之一的EV。 如果中微子充当宇宙学“热”暗物质，这将是一个有趣的范围。 该实验计划于2001年开始获取数据，因此与该组L3活动的预期端提供了很好的匹配。