Session R13: Neutrinos II
10:45 AM–12:21 PM, Monday, April 14, 2008
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Room: St. Louis F
Sponsoring Unit:
DNP
Chair: William Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.APR.R13.2
Abstract: R13.00002 : Status of Dimuon Analysis in the MINOS Near Detector
10:57 AM–11:09 AM
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Authors:
Azizur Rahaman
(University of South Carolina)
Jiajie Ling
(University of South Carolina)
Sanjib Mishra
(University of South Carolina)
We present the status of neutrino induced dimuon events in the MINOS Near Detector (ND). The ND has 3.2M identified $\nu_\mu$-CC events with an identified single negative muon with an average neutrino enerrgy ($E_\nu$) of 10.5 GeV. The dimuon analysis focuses on the neutrino charm-production where the charmed hadron decays into a positive-muon. Estimates of signal (charm) efficiency and background, and sensitivity to physics parameters such as strage quark distribution and the mass parameter of the charm quark will be presented.
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