| Seminar Date: | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | KAVLI 3rd Floor Conference Room |
| Abstract: | High precision measurements of neutrino interaction cross-sections are crucial to current and future neutrino oscillation experiments that hope to measure CP violation. The MINERvA experiment at Fermilab was designed to make many such measurements. The MINERvA collaboration recently published its first studies of quasi-elastic scattering, one of the most important channels for oscillation experiments. We find evidence of nuclear effects that are similar to those observed in electron-nucleus scattering but are not included in many standard neutrino event generators. These results and prospects for future cross-section measurements at MINERvA will be discussed. |
| Speaker: | Laura Fields - Northwestern
 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 was a study of D semileptonic decays. In 2010, I got a postdoc with Heidi Schellman at Northwestern, working on MINERvA and LBNE.
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