MINERvA: Measuring

MINERvA: Momentum in Particle Interactions

Essential Questions

When subatomic particles collide their identities often change. Is momentum still conserved?
How does the momentum of the final products of a collision, a proton and a muon, tell us about what collided?

Activities and Resources

A humorous approach to describing momentum, with an introduction to neutrino interactions inside of the MINERvA detector
- Bug vs. Truck Collision (ppt)
How to interpret a momentum vector from Arachne
- MINERvA Momentum Model (ppt)
Group activity analyzing collisions using the Arachne display
- Ten collision sampler (anchor into teachers guide)

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.