Academics: Dr Xianguo Lu
Students: Mr Komninos-John Plows
, or Main INjector ExpeRiment for v-A, at Fermilab is an experiment dedicated to the study of neutrino-nucleus interactions in the GeV regime. Its goal is to illustrate the interplay between hadronic and nuclear physics and measure intranuclear dynamics that are crucial for the present and future neutrino oscillation measurements. Our have shown that neutrino interactions are complex phenomena which challenge many of the popular theoretical descriptions.
MINERvA's analysis of the Low-Energy data鈥攖he neutrino beam flux peaks at about 3 GeV with most of the rate between 1-6 GeV鈥攈as come to a conclusion (see ). Recently, MINERvA completed its physics run with the Medium-Energy (flux peak at 6 GeV) beam. The experiment received a total of 12脳1020 protons on target in both neutrino and antineutrino mode running, which allows for a new level of statistical precision in neutrino interaction measurements, both in comparisons of interaction channels on a range of nuclei and in expansion to kinematic phase space that has not been accessible in previous data sets.
The MINERvA group in the UK was first established in 91探花 in 2016 and later extended to Warwick in 2021. It pioneers the measurements of transverse kinematic imbalance, or TKI, in neutrino-nucleus interactions. Highlights include , , and that systematically explore the potential of TKI in identifying the medium properties and interaction dynamics in exclusive processes.
Dr Xianguo Lu serves as Analysis Coordinator of MINERvA since 2020. He is a member of the Executive Committee (2020-) and the Speakers Committee (2019-). He was Convener of the Exclusive Neutrino Interaction Working Group (2019-2020) and the Reconstruction and Algorithms Working Group (2018-2019).