Physics Department Faculty:
Gary J. Feldman
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of SciencePhD 1971, Harvard University
Gary Feldman's research interests are in the experimental
study of neutrino oscillations. Currently his
group is working on the MINOS Experiment
at Fermilab. MINOS is a two-detector experiment, which
compares the signals observed in a near detector on
the Fermilab site with those observed in a far detector
in the lowest level of the Sudan mine in northern Minnesota. The
goal of the experiment is to verify the results seen
in the observation of atmospheric neutrinos and to
make more precise measurements of the oscillation parameters.
The Harvard group designed and, in collaboration with
Oxford University, built the front-end electronics
for the MINOS far detector. Its main analysis
interest is in the detection and study of the rare
process of a muon-type neutrino oscillating into an
electron-type neutrino. The detection of this
process is the key to the future studies of the mass-ordering
of neutrino states and CP violation in the leptonic
sector.
The study of muon-type to electron-type neutrino oscillations
will be furthered by the construction of the 30 kT
NOvA detector in northern Minnesota. Professor
Feldman is the co-spokesperson of the NOvA Experiment.
- P. Astier et al. "Final NOMAD Results on Muon-Neutrino --> Tau-Neutrino and Electron-Neutrino --> Tau-Neutrino Oscillations …", Nucl. Phys. B 611, 3 (2001).
- P. Astier et al. "Search for Heavy Neutrinos Mixing with Tau Neutrinos", Phys. Lett. B 506, 27 (2001).
- P. Astier et al. "Measurement of the Lambda Polarization in Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions in the NOMAD Experiment", Nucl. Phys. B 588, 3 (2000).