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MINERvA masterclass progress and goals

Ken Cecire, Rob Fine, Shane Wood

Short URL for slides: http://tiny.cc/zl7yyy.

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Aspirations

MMA

Existing masterclass!

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Fermilab short baseline

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Modified plan for rollout

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Progress on MINERvA

Progress made

  • More data > 500 events
  • Includes BG
  • Understanding of BG
  • Refinement of result
  • Additional measurement

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Progress needed

  • More data > 2000 events
  • Refine understanding
  • Documentation, website

https://quarknet.org > MASTERCLASSES > NEUTRINO PROJECT MAP

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MINERvA

MINERvA detector Interaction of interest

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Event display

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Background events

“Vertex” background

“Recoil” background

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Results from UF → low statistics → beam energy

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Results from UF → low statistics → Fermi motion

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Results from UF → low statistics → proton absorption

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Looking forward

Masterclass design:

  • 2000-5000 events total
  • Students examine sets of 50 events/pair; 20-40 students/masterclass; ≤5 mc/videocon
  • Each set has mix of signal events, vertex background, recoil background
  • Students choose signal events, transfer data to shared spreadsheet
  • Use combined results to find beam energy, probe nucleus, probe interaction of energized proton with matter; draw conclusions
  • Google sheets should work; more advanced method maybe better

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Looking forward

IMC 2019:

  • First major test Jan or Feb
  • Testing 3 days MINERvA masterclasses in IMC 2019 schedule
    • Fri 29 Mar
    • Sat 06 Apr
    • Thu 11 Apr
  • Videoconferences moderated from Fermilab
  • Use what we learn to scale up in 2020 and beyond, inform other neutrino masterclass development