Date: Wednesday 28th January 2004
Title: Neutrino Oscillations and the MINOS Experiment
Speaker: Dr Mark Thomson (Cambridge)
Abstract
The MINOS project is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment
involving firing a beam of muon neutrinos 735 km from Fermilab to the
deep underground MINOS detector. The construction of the MINOS far
detector is almost complete and the first beam is expected in December
2004. The MINOS far detector has been recording cosmic ray and atmospheric
neutrino data for over a year. In this seminar the current experimental
status of neutrino flavour oscillations will be reviewed, concentrating
on the recent results from Super-Kamiokande, SNO, KamLand and K2K. The
physics aims of the MINOS experiment will be discussed in the light of
these results. In addition, the design and current status of the MINOS
experiment will be reviewed.