Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding contribution from the California Institute of Technology
- Presents compelling ideas and lays the foundation for new results to emerge in the field of neutrinos
- Collects much of the author’s innovative research on MINOS in a single work
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About this book
The centerpiece of the thesis is the search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations which would indicate a non-zero mixing angle between the first and third neutrino generations (θ13), currently the “holy grail” of neutrino physics. The optimal extraction of the electron neutrino oscillation signal is based on the novel “library event matching” (LEM) method which Ochoa developed and implemented together with colleagues at Caltech and at Cambridge, which improves MINOS’ (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillator Search) reach for establishing an oscillation signal over any other method. LEM will now be the basis for MINOS’ final results, and will likely keep MINOS at the forefront of this field until it completes its data taking in 2011. Ochoa and his colleagues also developed the successful plan to run MINOS with a beam tuned for antineutrinos, to make a sensitive test of CPT symmetry by comparing the inter-generational mass splitting for neutrinos and antineutrinos. Ochoa’s in-depth, creative approach to the solution of a variety of complex experimental problems is an outstanding example for graduate students and longtime practitioners of experimental physics alike. Some of the most exciting results in this field to emerge in the near future may find their foundations in this thesis.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Search for Muon Neutrino to Electron Neutrino Oscillations in the MINOS Experiment
Authors: Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7949-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7948-3Published: 22 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2860-2Published: 28 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7949-0Published: 11 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 296
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation