The Minos Experiment

MINOS is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to perform precision measurements of neutrino oscillations using muon neutrinos. The experiment will do this using a new, intense neutrino beam from the Main Injector at Fermilab and two large, magnetized neutrino detectors: a 1kt Near Detector at Fermilab and a 5.4kt Far detector at a distance of 735km in the Soudan Mine, Minnesota. This paper briefly describes the experiment and its physics aims, reviews the current status and presents some preliminary, non-beam, data from the Far Detector.