Essential Questions

• Sometimes data is messy, ambiguous or complex. How do scientists deal with different interpretations of the same data?
• Aside from elastic collisions and muon decay, what other kinds of events are observed in the MINERvA data?

Activities and Resources

• Neutrinos in 60 seconds (pdf) – A short article from Symmetry Magazine
• Kevin McFarland’s Neutrino (and Betay Decay) Talk for Students (ppt) – Neutrinos in the big picture…from the Big Bang to the Standard Model
• Technical details of the MINERvA detector and beam
• Advanced MINERvA (ppt)
• Explore the zoo of neutrino interactions seen in MINERvA so far
• Types of Events seen in MINERvA (ppt)
• Exploration MINERvA's events with Arachne
• Arachne scavenger hunt (anchor into teacher guide)
• Do you have an idea for analyzing MINERvA's data?
  • If you do find something interesting in our data, we may be interested in collaborating with you to understand what you have found! Contact us to discuss your idea for an analysis.
    • Please note: we do ask that you not independently publish or disseminate results based on MINERvA's data without first discussing it with the collaboration. We have invested much in building this detector, and ask you for this courtesy in exchange for our willingness to share our data with you. Thank you for understanding.