Research Interests

Neutrino Physics: Oscillations in long baseline and reactor neutrino experiments, currently working on MINOS and NOvA with an interest in Double Chooz. Measurement of θ13 mixing angle. Pattern recognition problems. Future long baseline experiments.

Selected Publications

- Measurement of Neutrino Oscillations with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Beam (with P. Adamson et. al.) Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 131802 (2008). 

1. - A study of muon neutrino disappearance with the Fermilab Main Injector neutrino beam. MINOS Collaboration (with P. Adamson et. al.) Phys. Rev. D.  76, 072005 (arXiv:0711.0769 [hep-ex]).
   

2. - The NOvA Technical Design Report. NOvA Collaboration (with D.S. Ayres et.al.), FERMILAB-DESIGN-2007-01, Oct 2007.
   

3. - Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detector and the NuMI neutrino beam. MINOS Collaboration (with D.G. Michael et. al.) Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191801 (2006).
   

4. - Observation of atmospheric neutrino oscillation in Soudan 2. Soudan 2 Collaboration (M. Sanchez et. al.) Phys. Rev. D 68, 113004 (2003).
   

5. - The atmospheric neutrino flavor ratio from a 3.9 fiducial kiloton-year exposure of Soudan 2. Soudan-2 collaboration (with W.W.M. Allison et. al.) Phys. Lett. 137-144, (1999).
   

Selected Talks

1. - Beyond Muon Neutrino Disappearance in the MINOS Experiment, HEP seminar, University of Chicago, October 27, 2008. 
   

2. - Minos Status and Prospects, Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee (PAC) Meeting, March 27, 2008.
   

3. - Measuring the elusive: Neutrino oscillations in MINOS and beyond. HEP seminar, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, October 29, 2007.
   

4. - Recent results from MINOS and prospects for electron-neutrino appearance. HEP seminar, Harvard University, October 02, 2007.
   

5. - Electron neutrino appearance in MINOS, Ninth International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams (NuFact 07), Okayama, Japan, August  06-11, 2007.
   

6. - Recent results from the MINOS experiment. the April Meeting 2007 of the American Physical Society (APS 2007), Jacksonville, Florida, April 14-17, 2007.
   

7. - Electron neutrino studies appearance studies in MINOS. Meeting of the Division of Particle and Fields of the American Physics Society (DPF 2006). Honolulu, Hawaii. October 29-November 03, 2006.
   

8. - Results from the MINOS experiment. XXIV SLAC Summer Institute 2006, July 17-28, 2006.
   

9. - Catching Neutrinos, Talk for Malden High School students (grades 9-12) on a visit to Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, March 24, 2005.
   

More information

CV, Publication list, Ph.D. dissertation

email: mayly.sanchez@anl.gov , msanchez@physics.harvard.edu

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