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The University of Minnesota Neutrino Group is participating in three experiments to better understand the properties of neutrinos and, ultimately, CP violation in the lepton sector. Current conjectures relate leptonic CP violation to the matter antimatter asymmetry in the Universe, one of the major unresolved questions in 21st Century physics. The MINOS Experiment, which is currently acquiring and analyzing data, using a 735 km neutrino beam from Fermilab, near Chicago, to the University's Underground Laboratory at Soudan MN. MINOS studies the differences in the neutrino beam between the 1 kT Near Detector at Fermilab and the 5.5 kT Far Detector at Soudan. A second experiment, called NovA, will search for the appearance in the same neutrino beam of electron-type neutrinos. NOvA will have a 15 kT Far Detector at a new laboratory under construction at Ash River MN. The third experiment is currently in the conceptual design phase. It would use a new neutrino beam from Fermilab to the Homestake Mine in South Dakota. This talk will describe both the physics and the opportunities for graduate students.

UMN Neutrino Group: Professors Cronin-Hennessy, Heller, Marshak and Poling