Neutrino Road Trip: Searching for Lepton CP Violation
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 14 Jan 2015 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm |
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| Location: | Physics 0003 |
| Phone: | 515-294-5441 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Abstract: The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) is a planned experiment that will include a neutrino beam created at Fermilab in Illinois and sent through the earth to a very large detector in the Homestake mine in South Dakota. LBNE will attack many of the interesting outstanding questions in neutrino physics, and the core of its mission will be a search for CP violation by neutrinos. These measurements will require a neutrino beam of unprecedented intensity and a similarly unprecedented understanding of neutrino interactions with matter. The experiment itself, as well as recent efforts to design the beam and study neutrino interactions will be discussed, with an emphasis on recent results from the MINERvA neutrino scattering experiment at Fermilab.
Bio: I grew up in Arkansas and went to the University of Arkansas as an undergraduate. I got my PhD at Cornell working on the CLEO-c experiment under Ritchie Patterson. My thesis (2009) was a study of D semileptonic decays designed to test Lattice QCD. I also briefly worked on CMS before moving to Northwestern, where I'm a postdoc working on MINERvA and LBNE. For the past year, I've been an Intensity Frontier Fellow at Fermilab.