Overview
- Nominated by the University of Florida, USA, as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis
- Presents a major step forward in understanding the behavior of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos
- Provides successful techniques to measure neutrino and antineutrino interactions, which apply to current and future experiments
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a major step forward in experimentally understanding the behavior of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos. Apart from providing the world’s first measurement of these interactions in a mostly unexplored energy region, the data presented advances the neutrino community’s preparedness to search for an asymmetry between matter and anti-matter that may very well provide the physical mechanism for the existence of our universe.
The details of these measurements are preceded by brief summaries of the history of the neutrino, the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, and a description of their interactions. Also provided are details of the experimental setup for the measurements and the muon antineutrino cross-section measurement which motivates the need for dedicated in situ background constraints.
The world’s first measurement of the neutrino component of an antineutrino beam using a non-magnetized detector, as well as other crucial background constraints, are also presented in the book. By exploiting correlated systematic uncertainties, combined measurements of the muon neutrino and antineutrino cross sections described in the book maximize the precision of the extracted information from both results.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: First Measurement of the Muon Anti-Neutrino Charged Current Quasielastic Double-Differential Cross Section
Authors: Joseph Grange
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09573-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09572-1Published: 09 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36261-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09573-8Published: 23 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 153
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 75 illustrations in colour
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics