The Short-Baseline Near Detector, SBND, is the near detector of Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino program, a suite of liquid-argon time projection chambers along the Booster Neutrino Beam designed to address long-standing short-baseline neutrino anomalies and search for sterile-neutrino-driven oscillations. Located close to the neutrino source, SBND provides a high-statistics, high-resolution view of neutrino-argon interactions before oscillations are expected to develop, enabling powerful constraints on flux and cross-section uncertainties for the broader SBN program. In this seminar, I will discuss the physics motivation for short-baseline oscillation searches, the role of SBND in electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance measurements, and the detector capabilities that make these searches possible. I will also describe how SBND’s rich neutrino-argon dataset, precision reconstruction, cosmic-ray rejection, and complementary single-detector physics program support both the oscillation program and future long-baseline experiments such as DUNE.
Avinay Bhat, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
Host: Susan Dittmer
Joan West
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