Innovating at the Forefront of Precision Neutrino Oscillation Physics
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, 27 Jan 2015 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm |
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| Location: | TBA |
| Phone: | 515-294-5441 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Abstract: A new era of precision measurements in physics has begun in order to address many of the outstanding questions as to the true nature of neutrinos and neutrino oscillations. Questions that range from the seemingly simple such as "do we know how many types of neutrinos there are?" and " in what way have neutrinos ordered themselves in nature?", to the more complex such as "do neutrinos violate any fundamental symmetries?". To answer these questions requires pushing the boundaries in neutrino detection technology such as those I work on using Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPC's). This talk will highlight my work on these fine grained, high resolution detectors including innovations in hardware and data analysis I have had the opportunity to lead. I will present the first measurement of neutrino induced neutral current pi-zero production in liquid argon, a signature which is one of the leading backgrounds in many future neutrino experiments. I will also highlight the forthcoming short baseline neutrino oscillation program at Fermilab which will utilize LarTPCs and serve as a launchpad to the U.S.'s future flagship experiment, the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF). (I am writing my bio in third person, feel free to adjust the language to whatever way makes it sound most natural)
Bio: Jonathan Asaadi attended undergraduate at the University of Iowa before going to Texas A&M university where he received his Ph.D. working on Fermilab's Tevatron experiment CDF (Collider Detection at Fermilab). From there he joined Syracuse University and began as a post-doctoral researcher working in the field of neutrino physics with Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPC). He is an active member on a host of Fermilab based LArTPC experiments including the Argon Neutrino Teststand (ArgoNeuT), the Micro-Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE), the Liquid Argon in a TestBeam (LArIAT) experiment as well as contributing to the planning of many of the future experiments such as LAr1-ND and LBNF.