MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) is a Fermilab experiment designed to study neutrino oscillations in the  Delta m ² region in which the SuperK and MACRO experiments have previously reported strong evidence for neutrino mixing.  MINOS is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, with a near detector site at Fermilab and far site in the Soudan Laboratory, 735 km from Fermilab.  MINOS will be sensitive to neutrino oscillations resulting from mass-squared differences greater than 0.001 eV².   MINOS will also provide a determination of the level of participation of each neutrino flavor (for full three flavor mixing) at the level of roughly 2%.  In addition to providing the final ‘nail in the coffin’ to neutrino mixing in this Delta m² region, MINOS will allow a measurement (or limit) on the value for the critical U²_e3 matrix element  which extends the best presently available limits by roughly a factor of 3 to 5.  Details of the MINOS experiment can be found on the web at http:/www-numi.fnal.gov.

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