MINERvA: Measuring

MINERvA: Measuring what you cannot see

Essential Questions

How is the MINERvA project being used to detect subatomic particles?
What are neutrinos and why are they especially difficult to observe?
What is the characteristic signature of decay and momentum events in the MINERvA detector?

Activities and Resources

Description of MINERvA

What is MINERvA? (ppt – needs to be created/edited)
MINERvA's web page at Fermilab

Conceptual activity: build a 3D Model of the MINERvA Detector

MINERvA model lab activity (anchor in teacher's guide)

Particle Events in 60 seconds (pdf) -- A short article from Symmetry Magazine
How do muons and beta rays appear in the MINERvA Detector?

Intro to radioactive decay in MINERvA detector (anchor in teacher's guide)

How does an elastic collision appear in the MINERvA detector?

Our reaction is kind of like this (ppt - being edited)

See what the MINERvA detector is doing right now
- Unfiltered, stream of consciousness events from MINERvA
- Contact us to arrange a video chat with a MINERvA physicist from our control room.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0619727 to the University of Rochester with a subaward to the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.