Aaron M. McGowan

Research Associate
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Rochester


Contact Information
P.O. Box 270171
500 Wilson Blvd.
Rochester, NY 14627-0171
Phone: (585) 275-8960
E-mail: mcgowan@pas.rochester.edu

Education
Ph.D., Experimental Particle Physics, University of Minnesota, 2007
B.S., Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2003

Dissertation
Observation of deficit in NuMI neutrino-induced rock and non-fiducial muons in MINOS Far Detector and measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters

Research
I work as a post-doctoral research associate with the University of Rochester HEP group on the MINERvA experiment. I study charged particle interactions in the MINERvA detector that result from neutrino interactions in the NuMI beamline at Fermilab.

My Ph.D. advisor was Marvin L. Marshak. My co-advisor was Maury C. Goodman.

Publications
Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors in the NuMI neutrino beam, D.G. Michael, et al. (MINOS collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191801 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ex/0607088].

First observations of separated atmospheric nu(mu) and anti-nu(mu) events in the MINOS detector, P. Adamson, et al. (MINOS collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 73, 072002 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ex/0512036].

Charge-separated atmospheric neutrino-induced muons in the MINOS far detector, P. Adamson, et al. (MINOS collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 73, 072002 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ex/0701045].

Measurement of the atmospheric muon charge ratio at TeV energies with MINOS, P. Adamson, et al. (MINOS collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 76, 052003 (2007) [arXiv:hep-ex/0705.3815].

Measurement of neutrino velocity with the MINOS detectors and NuMI neutrino beam, P. Adamson, et al. (MINOS collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 76, 072005 (2007) [arXiv:hep-ex/0706.0437].

Links
arXiv e-Prints
Spires
The Neutrino Oscillation Industry
MINOS Far Detector live events
 American Association of Physics Teachers
American Physical Society
Union of Concerned Scientists
Graduate Student Association of Fermilab

mcgowan@pas.rochester.edu