Bonnie Fleming

Science Goal: MicroBooNE is a short baseline accelerator neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab designed to investigate the source of the low energy excess observed by the MiniBooNE experiment, perform a unique set of low energy neutrino cross section measurements, and conduct R&D towards development of massive LArTPC detectors. 

WL involvement: Yale’s roles included fabrication and assembly of the TPC and DAQ systems, development of the analysis techniques and tools necessary to analyze the data, and oversight of the collaboration.

Science Goal: The SBND is a near detector experiment being developed on the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab upstream from MicroBooNE.  While MicroBooNE will determine whether or not the low energy excess observed by MiniBooNE is electrons or photons, SBND will look for this excess at a near location to look for a baseline dependence of what MicroBooNE observes. 

WL Involvement: The Yale team is also constructing components of the TPC at Wright Lab, including the TPC field shaping system, the high voltage feedthrough and part of the scintillation light collection system.

Science Goal: LArIAT is a project at Fermilab to calibrate the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology.  LArIAT uses the repurposed ArgoNeuT TPC in the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF).

Science goal: Enable the study of parameters that determine the matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe and the ordering of neutrino mass states.

WL involvement: Yale is responsible for the assembly of Charge Readout Planes at Wright Lab and studying the detector response.

Science Goal: ArgoNeuT, an R&D experiment designed to detect and record neutrino interactions from the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), was the first Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) operating in a low energy neutrino and antineutrino beam, the region of interest for current short-baseline and future long-baseline experiments. 

WL Involvement: The Yale team played a leading role in the project and the group analyzed and used the data for several research programs.