A Search for $\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_e$ with the MiniBooNE Experiment

The MiniBooNE experiment, located at Fermilab, is designed to test, with high sensitivity, the LSND result which indicates $\bar{\nu}_\mu \rightarrow \bar{\nu}_e$ oscillations with a probability of 0.264+-0.067+-0.045\%. MiniBooNE searches for $\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_e$ oscillations in a high-purity, narrow-band $\nu_\mu$ beam of average energy 800~MeV. The detector is located 550~m from the neutrino source, consists of 800~tons of mineral oil, and records Cerenkov light produced in the signal reaction, $\nu_e n \rightarrow e^- p$. The experiment and analysis methods will be discussed and results from the neutrino oscillation search will be presented.