Searches for light sterile neutrinos with MicroBooNE
Searches for light sterile neutrinos with MicroBooNE
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 1st May 2026
- Speaker: Dr. Justin Evans (University of Manchester)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room (4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
MicroBooNE has recently delivered a definitive test of short-baseline neutrino anomalies that have persisted for three decades, ruling out a light sterile-neutrino explanation. The power of this result stems from the simultaneous use of two muon-neutrino beams—the BNB and NuMI—which breaks a degeneracy between electron-neutrino appearance and disappearance.
In this talk, I will present this analysis in detail and outline the broader MicroBooNE physics programme, including a wide range of searches for new physics and precision measurements of neutrino-argon interactions. I will conclude by discussing the future of the short-baseline neutrino programme in light of these results.
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