www.neutrino.lanl.gov/BooNE The BooNE experiment homepage

Note: This page is obsolete and is not being maintained.
Please goto the FNAL BooNE site at: http://www-boone.fnal.gov

BooNE The Booster Neutrino Experiment

The BooNE detector as seen by a computer simulation

BooNE (Booster Neutrino Experiment) is a neutrino oscillation experiment to take place at Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Lab, FNAL) using neutrinos created from protons from the 8 GeV Booster. BooNE is motivated predominantly by the evidence for neutrino oscillations as claimed by the LSND experiment. The goals of BooNE are:
1) confirm (or refute) the LSND observation with much better statistical precision (thousands of events compared to tens of events in LSND).
2) accurately determine the oscillation parameters (sin²(2 theta), delta m²) of the oscillations.

We have been approved by FNAL and are full-speed ahead with design, development, and obtaining funds.

For additional reading:

The original proposal, submitted 12/97: (30M ps file) , (6M gzipped ps file) (Note: This document is rather large and some figures may give some printers trouble. Send mail with any problems.
The latest collaboration list.

The name for the BooNE experiment was inspired by early American explorer and legend, Daniel Boone .

Additional relevant links:

There is a complementary BooNE site at FNAL.
The LSND site contains more details about LSND.
The Femilab site has much info about the lab, accelerators, particle physics and more.
The LA Science Magazine: "Celebrating the Neutrino" contains a beautiful account of the history of the neutrino and LANL's role in this.
The LAPP Neutrino History Home Page has good background info on neutrinos.
The Neutrino Oscillation Industry site contains a good overview of the neutino oscillation business.
The "Ultimate Neutrino Page" has good info about neutrinos and the state of the data.
There is a Letter of Intent for a CERN-PS experiment with similar motivation as BooNE.

BooNE collaborator page (password protected), for BooNE collaborators only.

Problems? Questions? Contact:

Rex Tayloe (rex@lanl.gov)

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Note: This page is obsolete and is not being maintained. Please goto the FNAL BooNE site at: http://www-boone.fnal.gov

Note: This page is obsolete and is not being maintained.
Please goto the FNAL BooNE site at: http://www-boone.fnal.gov