IDM2016

17-22 July 2016
Master Cutlers Hall
Europe/London timezone

SBND: Searching for Sterile Neutrinos and More with Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Near Detector

18 Jul 2016, 14:00
20m
Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton ()

Speaker

Georgia Karagiorgi (University of Manchester)

Description

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is one of three liquid argon time projection chamber detectors to be situated along the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab and form the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. SBND is scheduled to begin operations in 2018. The detector will be situated at merely 110 m from the BNB proton target, which is an ideal location for recording an unprecedentedly large number of neutrino interactions in the energy range of 0.5-1 GeV, and for serving as a high-precision BNB neutrino flux monitor. This is critically necessary for a high-sensitivity search for light (~0.1-10 eV$^2$) sterile neutrino oscillations that SBND will perform as a part of the Fermilab SBN program. Besides searching for light sterile neutrinos, SBND will also be able to search for light (<1 GeV) dark matter and provide constraints to other exotic physics. This talk will describe the current status of SBND and its physics capabilities.

Primary author

Georgia Karagiorgi (University of Manchester)

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