Updated Results From the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment

Speaker: Alejandro Diaz, MIT

When: November 29, 2018 (Thu), 03:30PM to 04:30PM (add to my calendar)
Location: PRB 595
Hosted by: Christopher Grant

This event is part of the HEE Seminar Series.

In its original 2002-2007 run, the MiniBooNE neutrino experiment observed an anomalous and yet-unexplained excess of electron-like events at low energy neutrino energies. This observation is one of several that has pushed the discussion of, and search for, sterile neutrinos. Since 2016, MiniBooNE has been collecting new neutrino-mode data, doubling the statistics from the original 2002-2007 run. The updated results continue to observe an excess consistent with oscillations. Furthermore, this excess is consistent with that observed by MiniBooNE’s precursor experiment, LSND. In this talk, the new MiniBooNE results will be discussed, and we will explore present and future endeavors to resolve the origin of these anomalous results.