Status of the Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab

ORAL

Abstract

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) will be one of three liquid argon neutrino detectors sitting in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. SBND is a 112-ton active mass liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) to be located only 110 m from the BNB neutrino source. The detector is currently in the construction phase and is anticipated to begin operation in 2020. SBND will record over a million neutrino interactions per year; by providing such a high statistics measurement of the un-oscillated content of the BNB, SBND is a critical element in performing searches for neutrino oscillations at the Fermilab SBN Program. In this talk, the physics reach, current status, and future prospects of SBND are discussed.

Presenters

  • Michael R Mooney

    Colorado State University

Authors

  • Michael R Mooney

    Colorado State University

  • Michael R Mooney

    Colorado State University