Neutrino Oscillations and the MINOS Experiment

Matthew Strait
Physics and Astonomy
University of Minnesota

Neutrino oscillations are a long-hypothesized but only recently observed phenomenon. Observations of these oscillations give us information about neutrino masses and may provide hints about how the universe came to have an asymmetry of matter and antimatter.  I will give an introduction to neutrinos and neutrino oscillations.  I'll then describe the MINOS experiment, in which we measure a beam of neutrinos produced at Fermilab in Illinois and aimed at our detector in northern Minnesota..