Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo

From 2003 to 2007 I conducted my research at Fermilab as a graduate student with Columbia University working on the MiniBooNE experiment. I graduated on December 20 of 2007, and my Ph.D. degree was awarded by Columbia University on February of 2008.

On January of 2008, I moved to TRIUMF in Vancouver B.C. to work on the PIENU experiment.

The MiniBooNE neutrino oscillations experiment was designed to confirm or refute the oscillations signal observed by the LSND experiment, conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1993 through 1998. The LSND signal would have important implications for the Standard Model if due to two-neutrino oscillations, requiring the existence of at least one non interacting neutrino (sterile).

Excerpt from the abstract of the First Results paper:

..."With two largely independent analyses, we observe no significant excess of events above background for reconstructed neutrino energies above 475 MeV. The data are consistent with no oscillations within a two neutrino appearance-only oscillation model."

The MiniBooNE Collaboration
April 11, 2007


Conferences

  • PASCOS'08
  • La Thuile 2008
  • FNAL Users' Meeting 2007
  • PANIC'05
  • Physics in Collision 2004

    • Selected Publications

    [Search all publications I contributed to in SPIRES ].
    1. A Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance at the \Delta m^2 ~1 eV^2 Scale ,
      A.A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. [MiniBooNE Collaboration]
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231801 (2007)
    2. Leptonic CP violation studies at MiniBooNE in the (3+2) sterile neutrino oscillation hypothesis. ,
      G. Karagiorgi, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, J.M. Conrad, M.H. Shaevitz (Columbia U.) , K. Whisnant (Iowa State U.) , M. Sorel (Valencia U., IFIC) , V. Barger (Wisconsin U., Madison)
      Phys.Rev.D75:013011,2007
    3. Active Neutrino Oscillations and the SNO NC measurement ,
      Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, J.C. D'Olivo (Mexico U., ICN)
      Phys.Rev. D66 113009,2002
    4. Magnus Expansion and Three-Neutrino Oscillations in Matter
      Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, L.G. Cabral-Rosetti, J.C. D'Olivo (Mexico U., ICN),
      J.Phys.Conf.Ser.37:161,2006(received 2002)
    5. Evidence for neutrino oscillations from the observation of anti-neutrino(electron) appearance in a anti-neutrino(muon) beam,
      A. Aguilar et al. [LSND Collaboration],
      Phys.Rev.D64:112007,2001

    Background ( CV )

  • Ph.D from Columbia University . Ph.D. Thesis: An Improved Neutrino Oscillations Analysis of the MiniBooNE Data .
  • Undergraduate and Masters degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  • Undergraduate Thesis: "Oscilaciones de neutrinos : el experimento DAR en LSND" (1999)

    • Interests

  • Neutrino Physics
  • General Relativity
  • Astrophysics

    • Other Interests...

  • Biking
  • Electric Guitar Playing

    • Oscillation Fits Plots

    BDT+TBL paper Discussion


    NuMItoBooNE fix (May07)

    Secret Area ...

    Contact Information

    TRIUMF, Canada's Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics
    4004 Wesbrook Mall
    Vancouver, B.C., V6T-2A3, Canada
    Phone: (604) 222-1047 (x6246)


    Mail Stop 309, Wilson Hall, 10th Floor
    Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
    Box 500, Batavia IL, 60510
    Phone: (630) 840-2161
    Alexis Aguilar Arevalo