Time and Date
13:30-15:30, October 30th, 2025

Title
"Looking for electrons in all the wrong places"
by Kevin McFarland (University of Rochester)

Place (hybrid)
Room 301, Physics Lecture Hall (MAP H-24)

Zoom registration for participants:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/kz8Aj1RLSR-HQK50uevJMw

Abstract
Energetic electrons aren't the first thing you'd expect to find in neutrino interactions from a predominantly muon neutrino beam from an accelerator neutrino source. But they are found in rare processes, like neutrino-electron elastic scattering, and from the 1% component of the beam that comes from decays of muons or kaons. I'll share a series of physics stories from the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab featuring these electrons, and backgrounds to them, that range from measurements of expected rare processes to tests for surprise gifts from nature.

Point
GSP 1

Contact
Kazuhiro Watanabe (Physics, GP-PU),
E-mail: kazuhiro.watanabe.b8*tohoku.ac.jp (Replace * with @)