| Seminar Date: | Tuesday, October 1, 2013 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | Madrone |
| Abstract: | Neutrino-electron scattering in MINERvA, an absolutely predicted pointlike weak process can constrain the neutrino flux of the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at Fermilab. The neutrino flux is important for MINERvA's absolute cross section measurements, which are valuable inputs for future accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. Neutrino beam predictions have large uncertainties due to poor understanding of hadron production. The rare signal can be identified by requiring very forward single electromagnetic showers with dE/dx at the beginning of electromagnetic shower consistent with electrons rather than electron-positron pairs from photon pair production. This technique could be used for flux measurements in future high intensity neutrino oscillation experiments. |
| Speaker: | Jaewon Park - Rochester
 Jaewon Park grew up in Seoul, Korea. He earned his BS and MS in
physics from Korea University.
He is currently pursuing a PhD from University of Rochester, working
on neutrino-electron scattering in MINERvA experiment.
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