Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo

Since January of 2009 I am working at the Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares of the U.N.A.M. in Mexico City.

From January to December of 2008 I worked on the PIENU experiment as a post-doc in the TRIUMF laboratory located in Vancouver B.C., Canada.

From June of 2003 to December of 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.

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)

    • MiniBooNE:

    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

  • TAUP'09
  • 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 Antineutrino Appearance at the Delta m**2 ~ 1-eV**2 Scale,
      A.A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. [MiniBooNE Collaboration]
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 111801 (2009)
    2. High purity pion beam at TRIUMF ,
      A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Blecher, D.A. Bryman, J. Comfort, J. Doornbos, L. Doria, A. Hussein, N. Ito, S. Kettell, L. Kurchaninov, C. Malbrunot, G.M. Marshall, T. Numao, R. Poutissou, A. Sher, B. Walker, K. Yamada [PIENU Collaboration]
      Nucl. Inst. Meth. Phys. Res. A 609, 102-105 (2009)
    3. A Search for muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance in MiniBooNE,
      A.A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. [MiniBooNE Collaboration]
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061802 (2009)
    4. Unexplained Excess of Electron-Like Events From a 1-GeV Neutrino Beam,
      A.A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. [MiniBooNE Collaboration]
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 101802 (2009)
    5. First Measurement of nu(mu) and nu(e) Events in an Off-Axis Horn-Focused Neutrino Beam ,
      P.Adamson, A.A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. [MiniBooNE and MINOS Collaborations]
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 211801 (2009)
    6. 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)
    7. 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. D 75, 013011 (2007)
    8. Active Neutrino Oscillations and the SNO NC measurement ,
      Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, J.C. D'Olivo (Mexico U., ICN)
      Phys. Rev. D 66 113009,( 2002)
    9. 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.3 7, 161 (2006) (received 2002)
    10. 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. D 64, 112007 (2001)

    Interests

  • Neutrino Physics
  • Dark Matter detectors
  • Particle astrophysics

    • Other Interests...

  • Biking
  • Electric Guitar Playing

    • Oscillation Fits Plots

    BDT+TBL paper Discussion

    NuMItoBooNE fix (May07)

    Secret Area ...

    Contact Information:

    Mexico City:
    Departamento de Fisica de Altas Energias,
    Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares (ICN-UNAM),
    Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria
    C.P. 04510, Distrito Federal, Mexico
    Phone: ++(52-55) 5622-4669
    Fax: ++(52-55) 5622-4693
    		USA:
    Mail Stop 309, Wilson Hall 10th Floor,
    Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
    Box 500, Batavia IL, 60510
    Phone: (630) 840-2161
    Alexis Aguilar Arevalo