RUI: Experimental Neutrino Research at Minnesota Duluth

RUI：明尼苏达州德卢斯实验中微子研究

• 批准号: 2013217
• 负责人: Alec Habig
• 金额: $ 62.85万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota Duluth
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-15 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2013217&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Experimental; Neutrino; Research; Minnesota

One of the major intellectual achievements of the 20th century was the development of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. This model succeeded in classifying all of the elementary particles known at the time into a hierarchy of groups having similar quantum properties. The validity of this model to date was confirmed by the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. However, the Standard Model as it currently exists leaves open many questions about the universe, including such fundamental questions as to why the Higgs mass has the value it has and why there is no antimatter in the universe. A primary area to search for answers to these and other open questions about the universe, how it came to be and why it is the way it is, is to focus on a study of the properties of neutrinos and to use what we know and can learn about neutrinos as probes of science beyond the Standard Model. Neutrinos are those elementary particles that interact with practically nothing else in the universe. They have no electric charge and were once thought to be massless. Like other elementary particles, they were believed to have an antimatter counterpart, the antineutrino. Moreover, the Standard Model predicted that there were actually three different kinds of neutrinos that were distinguishable through the different interactions that they did undergo whenever there was an interaction. But recent measurements have totally changed our picture of neutrinos. We now know that neutrinos do have a mass and because they do, they can actually change from one type to another. The Intellectual Merit of this work is in the detailed measurements of these changes, along with other current neutrino experiments. These form one of the most promising ways to probe for new physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) and are the subject of this investigation. This research will involve the work of undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, an RUI. Faculty and students working on the NOvA and MINERvA experiments will further the neutrino oscillation measurements and are working toward first astrophysics results. The effort includes enhancing the ability for NOvA electronics to self-detect the neutrino burst from a potential galactic supernova and share that alert with the world-wide supernova detection network. Neutrino interaction measurements continue with existing and incoming data from the MINERvA experiment. Finally, the group is pursuing work toward the next generation experiment, DUNE, including roles in the data acquisition system, design of the near detectors, and the role of neutrino interaction uncertainties in the design sensitivity of the experiment. This grant also supports broader impacts via participation and leadership of the NOvA outreach program, which includes regular summer tours of the Soudan Underground Laboratory and the NOvA detector at the Ash River, MN site.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

20世纪的主要知识成就之一是粒子物理学标准模型（SM）的发展。该模型成功地将当时已知的所有基本粒子分类为具有相似量子特性的组的层次结构。迄今为止，通过发现Higgs玻色子在CERN的大型强子对撞机上发现了该模型的有效性。但是，目前存在的标准模型为宇宙留下了许多问题，包括有关希格斯质量为何具有其价值以及为什么宇宙中没有反物质的基本问题。寻找有关宇宙和其他开放问题的主要领域，是如何发生的，以及为什么它的样子，是专注于对中微子的特性的研究，并使用我们知道的知识和可以学习中微子作为标准模型以外的科学探索的知识。中微子是那些与宇宙中实际上没有其他相互作用的基本粒子。他们没有电荷，曾经被认为是无质量的。像其他基本颗粒一样，它们被认为具有反物质对应物，抗肿瘤。此外，标准模型预测，实际上有三种不同类型的中微子可以通过它们在相互作用时进行的不同相互作用来区分。但是最近的测量已完全改变了我们对中微子的情况。我们现在知道中微子确实有质量，并且因为它们确实可以从一种类型变为另一种类型。这项工作的智力优点在于这些变化的详细测量以及其他当前的中微子实验。 这些构成了除标准模型（BSM）之外的新物理学探测新物理学的最有前途的方法之一，并且是本研究的主题。这项研究将涉及明尼苏达大学德卢斯大学的本科生的工作。从事NOVA和MINERVA实验的教职员工和学生将进一步进一步进行中微子振荡测量，并正在努力为首先的天体物理学结果。这项工作包括增强了Nova电子设备从潜在的银河超新星自我检测中微子爆发的能力，并与全球超新星检测网络共享警报。中微子相互作用的测量继续使用Minerva实验的现有和传入的数据。最后，该小组正在为下一代实验，沙丘，包括在数据采集系统中的角色，近检测器的设计以及中微子相互作用不确定性在实验设计敏感性中的作用。该赠款还通过参与和领导Nova宣传计划的参与和领导才能支持更广泛的影响，其中包括苏丹地下实验室的定期夏季巡回演出和MN网站Ash River的Nova探测器。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的Impact Impact Impact Impactia审查Criteria的评估，并被认为是通过评估来进行评估。

项目成果

Low exposure long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of the DUNE experiment

DUNE 实验的低曝光长基线中微子振荡灵敏度

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.105.072006
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Abud, A. Abed;Abi, B.;Acciarri, R.;Acero, M. A.;Adames, M. R.;Adamov, G.;Adams, D.;Adinolfi, M.;Aduszkiewicz, A.;Aguilar, J.
• 通讯作者: Aguilar, J.

Identification and reconstruction of low-energy electrons in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector

ProtoDUNE-SP 探测器中低能电子的识别和重建

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.107.092012
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Abud, A. Abed;Abi, B.;Acciarri, R.;Acero, M. A.;Adames, M. R.;Adamov, G.;Adamowski, M.;Adams, D.;Adinolfi, M.;Adriano, C.
• 通讯作者: Adriano, C.

Exploring neutrino–nucleus interactions in the GeV regime using MINERvA

• DOI: 10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00296-6
• 发表时间: 2021-07
• 期刊: The European Physical Journal Special Topics
• 作者: X.-G. Lu;Z. A. Dar;F. Akbar;D. A. Andrade;M. Ascencio;G. Barr;A. Bashyal;L. Bellantoni;A. Bercellie;M. Betancourt;A. Bodek;J. L. Bonilla;H. Budd;G. Caceres;T. Cai;M. Carneiro;H. da Motta;G. A. Dı́az;J. Félix;L. Fields;A. Filkins;R. Fine;A. Gago;H. Gallagher;S. Gilligan;R. Gran;D. Harris;S. Henry;D. Jena;S. Jena;J. Kleykamp;A. Klustová;M. Kordosky;D. Last;A. Lozano;E. Maher;S. Manly;W. A. Mann;C. Mauger;K. McFarland;A. McGowan;B. Messerly;J. Miller;J. Morfín;D. Naples;J. Nelson;C. Nguyen;A. Olivier;V. Paolone;G. Perdue;K. Plows;M. A. Ramírez;R. Ransome;H. Ray;P. Rodrigues;D. Ruterbories;H. Schellman;C. J. S. Salinas;H. Su;M. Sultana;V. Syrotenko;E. Valencia;A. Waldron;D. Wark;A. Weber;K. Yang;L. Zazueta

Use of neutrino scattering events with low hadronic recoil to inform neutrino flux and detector energy scale

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/p08068
• 发表时间: 2021-08-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: Bashyal, A.;Rimal, D.;Zazueta, L.
• 通讯作者: Zazueta, L.

Highly-parallelized simulation of a pixelated LArTPC on a GPU

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/18/04/p04034
• 发表时间: 2022-12
• 期刊: Journal of Instrumentation
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: D. C. A. A. Abud-D.-C.-A.-A.-Abud-2120181467;B. Abi;R. Acciarri;M. A. Acero;M. Adames;G. Adamov;M. Adamowski;D. Adams