Wednesday 15 January 2014 

Speaker: Prof Kevin McFarland (Rochester University)


Title: "Neutrino Interactions at MINERvA" 

Abstract: Neutrino interactions on nuclei at the energies 
relevant for current and future accelerator oscillation 
experiments have momentum transfers of order QCD and 
inhabit a murky region neither dominated by elastic or 
inelastic processes.  These oscillation experiments are 
soon to be disappointed by both the state of the art of 
theoretical predictions of these processes and the paucity 
of data to guide effective models of these interactions.  
The MINERvA experiment at Fermilab's NuMI neutrino beam 
seeks to learn about these scattering processes on a 
variety of nuclei.  Our early results illustrate the 
value of this data and the difficulties that remain.