Abstract
We use the NOvA near detector and the NuMI beam at Fermilab to study the neutrino-electron elastic scattering and the muon neutrino magnetic process beyond the Standard Model physics. The particle identifications of neutrino on electron elastic scattering are trained by using the multi-layer neural networks. This thesis provides a general discussion of this technique and shows a good agreement between data and MC for the neutrino-electron elastic weak scattering. By using 3.62e20 POT dataset in the NOvA near detector, we find 1.58e-9 Bohr magneton as the 90% C.L. upper limit. We also find a sensitivity of 8e-10 Bohr magneton at the 90% C.L. for 1.8e21 POT.
Degree Date
Fall 12-16-2017
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
Physics
Advisor
Thomas E. Coan
Subject Area
Physics
Number of Pages
128
Format
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Recommended Citation
Wang, Biao, "Muon-Neutrino Electron Elastic Scattering and a Search for the Muon-Neutrino Magnetic Moment in the NOvA Near Detector" (2017). Physics Theses and Dissertations. 1.
https://scholar.smu.edu/hum_sci_physics_etds/1
