Physical Society Colloquium

ν_e or not ν_e? Upcoming Results from MiniBooNE

Bonnie Fleming

Yale University

From “desperate remedies” to “missing energy”, neutrinos have been elusive for most of their known lives. What we've learned in the last ten years about neutrinos has drawn attention to these tiny particles that have continued to surprise us — they oscillate and have mass! But the more answers we get, the more questions we have. The MiniBooNE experiment, designed to address the LSND result, is searching for ν_e's from oscillating ν_μ's. The results of this search may point towards yet anther surprise from the neutrino sector. MiniBooNE's oscillation path and what may lie beyond, will be presented.