Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in MiniBooNE
Event Date:
2018-10-10T14:00:00
2018-10-10T15:00:00
Event Location:
TRIUMF Auditorium
Speaker:
Bill Louis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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Event Information:
The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab observes an excess of 460.5+-99.0 nue CCQE candidate events in the 200 < E < 1250 MeV energy range, corresponding to a significance of 4.7 sigma. If interpreted in a two-neutrino oscillation model, numu -> nue, the best oscillation fit to the excess has a probability of 21.1%, while the background-only fit has a chisquare probability of 6E-7 relative to the best fit. The MiniBooNE data are consistent in energy and magnitude with the excess events observed by the LSND experiment. Although the data are fit with a two-neutrino oscillation model, other models may provide better fits to the data.
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2018-10-10T14:00:00
2018-10-10T15:00:00
Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in MiniBooNE
Event Information:
The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab observes an excess of 460.5+-99.0 nue CCQE candidate events in the 200 < E < 1250 MeV energy range, corresponding to a significance of 4.7 sigma. If interpreted in a two-neutrino oscillation model, numu -> nue, the best oscillation fit to the excess has a probability of 21.1%, while the background-only fit has a chisquare probability of 6E-7 relative to the best fit. The MiniBooNE data are consistent in energy and magnitude with the excess events observed by the LSND experiment. Although the data are fit with a two-neutrino oscillation model, other models may provide better fits to the data.
Event Location:
TRIUMF Auditorium