Please see here for MiniBooNE and here for SciBooNE official websites
The BooNEs are a series of experiments performed on the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab: MiniBooNE (2001-2012), SciBooNE (2007-2008) and MicroBooNE (scheduled to start late 2013). All three experiments use the BNB beam, created by 8 GeV protons impinging on a beryllium target. The target is within a magnetic focusing horn, which has a reversible current for running neutrinos or antineutrinos. The average energy is 0.75 GeV. Along with shared beam, the experiments have two unifying themes: 1) the search for beyond standard model physics in muon to electron flavor (anti)neutrino oscillations and 2) cross section measurements which support searches for new physics. Our participation in SciBooNE ended in 2011. We continue to participate in MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE.
MiniBooNE was proposed in 1997 to address the LSND anti-electron-neutrino excess observed in the anti-muon-neutrino beam at LAMPF. The design maintains the LSND L/E~1 m/MeV while substantially changing E. The detector is located at L=541 m, and consists of a spherical tank, radius 610 cm, instrumented with 1520 8-inch photomultiplier tubes and filled with 800 tons of pure mineral oil. The MiniBooNE run ended in 2012.
MiniBooNE has a rich data set that continues to provide interesting analysis topics. Georgia Karagiorgi completed her thesis on MiniBooNE data and graduated from the MIT group in 2010. Our group on MiniBooNE now includes graduate students Christina Ignarra and postdoc Teppei Katori.
Current Work
Please see the arXiv for our most recent paper