MiniBooNE is a Cherenkov detector experiment at Fermilab designed to observe neutrino oscillations (BooNE is an acronym for the Booster Neutrino Experiment). A neutrino beam consisting primarily of muon neutrinos is directed at a detector filled with 800 tons of mineral oil (ultrarefined methylene compounds) and lined with 1,280 photomultiplier tubes.[1] An excess of electron neutrino events in the detector would support the neutrino oscillation interpretation of the LSND (Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector) result.
MiniBooNE started collecting data in 2002[2] and was still running in 2017.[3] In May 2018, physicists of the MiniBooNE experiment reported a possible signal indicating the existence of sterile neutrinos.[4]
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