Neutrino Members

PROSPECT

PROSPECT is a reactor neutrino experiment searching for the oscillation signature of sterile neutrinos and testing our understanding of the emission of antineutrinos from the fission products in a nuclear reactor. The measurements of PROSPECT will test our understanding of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, deepen our understanding of nuclear processes in a reactor, and help develop technology for the remote monitoring of nuclear reactors for safeguard and non-proliferation."


NOvA

"The NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance) experiment is shedding light on nature’s most elusive particles: neutrinos. Since the late 1990s, physicists have known that neutrinos exhibit a quantum mechanical behavior called oscillations. But this behavior is not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. NOvA is working to better understand these strange particles through precision measurements of their oscillation properties."


MicroBooNE

"MicroBooNE is a large 170-ton liquid-argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino experiment located at FermiLab.will investigate the low energy excess events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment, measure a suite of low energy neutrino cross sections, and investigate astro-particle physics."


COHERENT

"CEvNS (pronounced "sevens"; Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering) is the process of a neutrino scattering off of a nucleus in both an elastic and coherent way; it is a process that is well understood within the Standard Model of particle physics. Since CEvNS is a Standard Model prediction, like the Higgs, it should in fact exist and it should be tested for. The main aim of the COHERENT collaboration is to make a first direct measurement of CEvNS."


JUNO

"The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure oscillation parameters by detecting reactor neutrinos from the Yangjiang and Taishan Nuclear Power Plants, observe supernova neutrinos, study the atmospheric solar neutrinos and geo-neutrinos, and perform exotic searches, with a 20-thousand-ton liquid scintillator detector of unprecedented energy resolution at 700-meter deep underground."


DUNE

"The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a leading-edge, international experiment for neutrino science and proton decay studies. Discoveries over the past half-century have put neutrinos, the most abundant matter particles in the universe, in the spotlight for further research into several fundamental questions about the nature of matter and the evolution of the universe — questions that DUNE will seek to answer."


MINOS

"The MINOS Experiment is a long-baseline neutrino experiment designed to observe the phenomena of neutrino oscillations, an effect which is related to neutrino mass. MINOS uses two detectors, one located at Fermilab, at the source of the neutrinos, and the other located 450 miles away, in northern Minnesota, at the Soudan Underground Mine State Park."


BOREXINO

"The BOREXINO detector is a real time detector for low energy solar neutrinos, with the specific goal of measuring the Be-7 neutrino flux from the sun.


MiniBooNE

"Housed at FermiLab, MiniBooNE is an experiment designed to test for neutrino mass by searching for neutrino oscillations. Knowledge of the neutrino mass may lead to physics beyond the Standard Model. Masses in the accessible range of MiniBooNE will expand our understanding of how the universe has evolved."


ICARUS

"The ICARUS experiment studied neutrinos by pioneering the use of a new technology for spotting neutrinos using liquid argon. When neutrinos collide with argon atoms they create charged particles that can be tracked, and the detector produces beautiful 3-D images of those particles so scientists can study them. Now at Fermilab, the ICARUS detector will search for a long-theorized but never-detected type of neutrino. Scientists have observed three types of neutrino – the muon, electron and tau neutrinos – and have also observed those neutrinos changing between types. Previous experiments have hinted that these three types might also be changing into a fourth type, one we have not been able to detect. The ICARUS detector will use Fermilab’s neutrino beam to specifically seek evidence of this fourth type of neutrino."


T2K

"T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment in Japan, and is studying neutrino oscillations. Neutrinos are elementary particles which come in three “flavours”: electron, muon, and tau. T2K has made a search for oscillations from muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos; these oscillations had never been observed by any previous experiment. T2K is also making measurements of oscillations from muon neutrinos to tau neutrinos; tt will make the most accurate measurements to date of the probability of these oscillations and of the difference between the masses of two of the neutrinos."