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Physics Colloquium Speaker: Ornella Palamara, Fermilab, SBND Spokesperson

Abstract:

Searches for New Physics have been the domain of high-energy colliders for decades. Recently, there has been a growing interest in exploring similar/complementary opportunities in neutrino experiments. Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detectors at Short-Baseline are ideal tools for looking for new physics in the neutrino sector and beyond. ArgoNeuT, a small LArTPC exposed to the Neutrinos at the Main Injector beam at Fermilab, has provided leading constraints on New Physics in unexplored regions of parameter space. The LArTPC detectors of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program, sitting on the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab, will perform a world-leading search for eV-scale sterile neutrinos. Beyond the flagship oscillation searches, the SBN program has a broad science goal of addressing alternative explanations for short-baseline neutrino anomalies and including further explorations Beyond the Standard Model.