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1. Calorimetric classification of track-like signatures in liquid argon TPCs using MicroBooNE data

Author

Abratenko, P, An, R, Anthony, J, Asaadi, J, Ashkenazi, A, Balasubramanian, S, Baller, B, Barnes, C, Barr, G, Basque, V, Bathe-Peters, L, Benevides Rodrigues, O, Berkman, S, Bhanderi, A, Bhat, A, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Bolton, T, Camilleri, L, Caratelli, D, Caro Terrazas, I, Castillo Fernandez, R, Cavanna, F, Cerati, G, Chen, Y, Church, E, Cianci, D, Conrad, JM, Convery, M, Cooper-Troendle, L, Crespo-Anad��n, JI, Del Tutto, M, Dennis, Steve, Devitt, D, Diurba, R, Dorrill, R, Duffy, K, Dytman, S, Eberly, B, Ereditato, A, Evans, JJ, Fine, R, Fiorentini Aguirre, GA, Fitzpatrick, RS, Fleming, BT, Foppiani, N, Franco, D, Furmanski, AP, Garcia-Gamez, D, Gardiner, S, Ge, G, Gollapinni, S, Goodwin, O, Gramellini, E, Green, P, Greenlee, H, Gu, W, Guenette, R, Guzowski, P, Hagaman, L, Hall, E, Hamilton, P, Hen, O, Horton-Smith, GA, Hourlier, A, Itay, R, James, C, Ji, X, Jiang, L, Jo, JH, Johnson, RA, Jwa, YJ, Kamp, N, Kaneshige, N, Karagiorgi, G, Ketchum, W, Kirby, M, Kobilarcik, T, Kreslo, I, LaZur, R, Lepetic, I, Li, K, Li, Y, Lin, K, Littlejohn, BR, Louis, WC, Luo, X, Manivannan, K, Mariani, C, Marsden, D, Marshall, J, Martinez Caicedo, DA, Mason, K, Mastbaum, A, McConkey, N, Meddage, V, Mettler, T, Miller, K, Mills, J, Mistry, K, Dennis, Steve [0000-0001-9099-8895], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Regular Article - Experimental Physics, Other experiments
Abstract

The MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located at Fermilab is a neutrino experiment dedicated to the study of short-baseline oscillations, the measurements of neutrino cross sections in liquid argon, and to the research and development of this novel detector technology. Accurate and precise measurements of calorimetry are essential to the event reconstruction and are achieved by leveraging the TPC to measure deposited energy per unit length along the particle trajectory, with mm resolution. We describe the non-uniform calorimetric reconstruction performance in the detector, showing dependence on the angle of the particle trajectory. Such non-uniform reconstruction directly affects the performance of the particle identification algorithms which infer particle type from calorimetric measurements. This work presents a new particle identification method which accounts for and effectively addresses such non-uniformity. The newly developed method shows improved performance compared to previous algorithms, illustrated by a 93.7% proton selection efficiency and a 10% muon mis-identification rate, with a fairly loose selection of tracks performed on beam data. The performance is further demonstrated by identifying exclusive final states in νμCC interactions. While developed using MicroBooNE data and simulation, this method is easily applicable to future LArTPC experiments, such as SBND, ICARUS, and DUNE.

Published
2021

2. Measurement of the longitudinal diffusion of ionization electrons in the MicroBooNE detector

Author

Collaboration, The MicroBooNE, Abratenko, P., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Benevides Rodrigues, O., Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Caro Terrazas, I., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Church, E., Cianci, D., Conrad, J.M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J.I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S.R., Devitt, D., Diurba, R., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Evans, J.J., Fine, R., Fiorentini Aguirre, G.A., Fitzpatrick, R.S., Fleming, B.T., Foppiani, N., Franco, D., Furmanski, A.P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Goodwin, O., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hall, E., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Horton-Smith, G.A., Hourlier, A., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J.H., Johnson, R.A., Jwa, Y.-J., Kamp, N., Kaneshige, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., LaZur, R., Lepetic, I., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B.R., Louis, W.C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez Caicedo, D.A., Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mogan, A., Mohayai, T., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moor, A.F., Moore, C.D., Mora Lepin, L., Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Neely, R.K., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S.F., Paudel, A., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I.D., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J.L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rice, L.C.J., Rochester, L., Rodriguez Rondon, J., Rogers, H.E., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D.W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M.H., Sharankova, R., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E.L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., St. John, J., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A.M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y.-T., Uchida, M.A., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L.E., Zeller, G.P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
Charge transport and multiplication in liquid media, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, paper, Time projection Chambers (TPC), Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase)
Abstract

Accurate knowledge of electron transport properties is vital to understanding the information provided by liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). Ionization electron drift-lifetime, local electric field distortions caused by positive ion accumulation, and electron diffusion can all significantly impact the measured signal waveforms. This paper presents a measurement of the effective longitudinal electron diffusion coefficient, DL, in MicroBooNE at the nominal electric field strength of 273.9 V/cm. Historically, this measurement has been made in LArTPC prototype detectors. This represents the first measurement in a large-scale (85 tonne active volume) LArTPC operating in a neutrino beam. This is the largest dataset ever used for this measurement. Using a sample of ∼70,000 through-going cosmic ray muon tracks tagged with MicroBooNE's cosmic ray tagger system, we measure DL = 3.74+0.28 -0.29 cm2/s.

Published
2021

3. First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon at E_{ν}∼0.8 GeV with the MicroBooNE Detector

Author

Abratenko, P, Adams, C, Alrashed, M, An, R, Anthony, J, Asaadi, J, Ashkenazi, A, Auger, M, Balasubramanian, S, Baller, B, Barnes, C, Barr, G, Bass, M, Bay, F, Bhat, A, Bhattacharya, K, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Bolton, T, Camilleri, L, Caratelli, D, Caro Terrazas, I, Carr, R, Castillo Fernandez, R, Cavanna, F, Cerati, G, Chen, Y, Church, E, Cianci, D, Cohen, EO, Collin, GH, Conrad, JM, Convery, M, Cooper-Troendle, L, Crespo-Anadón, JI, Del Tutto, M, Devitt, D, Diaz, A, Domine, L, Duffy, K, Dytman, S, Eberly, B, Ereditato, A, Escudero Sanchez, L, Esquivel, J, Evans, JJ, Fitzpatrick, RS, Fleming, BT, Franco, D, Furmanski, AP, Garcia-Gamez, D, Genty, V, Goeldi, D, Gollapinni, S, Goodwin, O, Gramellini, E, Greenlee, H, Grosso, R, Gu, L, Gu, W, Guenette, R, Guzowski, P, Hackenburg, A, Hamilton, P, Hen, O, Hill, C, Horton-Smith, GA, Hourlier, A, Huang, E-C, James, C, Jan de Vries, J, Ji, X, Jiang, L, Johnson, RA, Joshi, J, Jostlein, H, Jwa, Y-J, Karagiorgi, G, Ketchum, W, Kirby, B, Kirby, M, Kobilarcik, T, Kreslo, I, Lepetic, I, Li, Y, Lister, A, Littlejohn, BR, Lockwitz, S, Lorca, D, Louis, WC, Luethi, M, Lundberg, B, Luo, X, Marchionni, A, Marcocci, S, Mariani, C, Marshall, J, Martin-Albo, J, Martinez Caicedo, DA, and Mason, K

Subjects
General Physics, Engineering, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, hep-ex, Physical Sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, MicroBooNE Collaboration, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Mathematical Sciences
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the double-differential and total muon neutrino charged current inclusive cross sections on argon at a mean neutrino energy of 0.8GeV. Data were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab Booster neutrino beam and correspond to 1.6×10^{20} protons on target of exposure. The measured differential cross sections are presented as a function of muon momentum, using multiple Coulomb scattering as a momentum measurement technique, and the muon angle with respect to the beam direction. We compare the measured cross sections to multiple neutrino event generators and find better agreement with those containing more complete treatment of quasielastic scattering processes at low Q^{2}. The total flux integrated cross section is measured to be 0.693±0.010(stat)±0.165(syst)×10^{-38} cm^{2}.

Published
2019

4. First measurement of <math><msub><mi>ν</mi><mi>μ</mi></msub></math> charged-current <math><msup><mi>π</mi><mn>0</mn></msup></math> production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

Author

Adams, C., Alrashed, M., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Auger, M., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Bass, M., Bay, F., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, K., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Caro Terrazas, I., Carr, R., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, H., Chen, Y., Church, E., Cianci, D., Cohen, E., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Diaz, A., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Esquivel, J., Evans, J. J., Fadeeva, A. A., Fitzpatrick, R. S., Fleming, B. T., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Genty, V., Goeldi, D., Gollapinni, S., Goodwin, O., Gramellini, E., Greenlee, H., Grosso, R., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hackenburg, A., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Hewes, J., Hill, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Huang, E. -C., James, C., Jan De Vries, J., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Johnson, R. A., Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Jwa, Y. -J., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lepetic, I., Li, Y., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R., Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Marcocci, S., Mariani, C., Marshall, J., Martin-Albo, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., Mastbaum, A., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Mistry, K., Mogan, A., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Pandey, V., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Porzio, D., Pulliam, G., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Rafique, A., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Ross-Lonergan, M., Rudolf Von Rohr, C., Russell, B., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., John, J. S., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thomson, M., Thornton, R. T., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tufanli, S., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Van De Water, R. G., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Wierman, K., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Woodruff, K., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the flux-integrated cross section of νμ charged-current single π0 production on argon. This measurement is performed with the MicroBooNE detector, an 85 ton active mass liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. This result on argon is compared to past measurements on lighter nuclei to investigate the scaling assumptions used in models of the production and transport of pions in neutrino-nucleus scattering. The techniques used are an important demonstration of the successful reconstruction and analysis of neutrino interactions producing electromagnetic final states using a liquid argon time projection chamber operating at the Earth’s surface.

Published
2019

5. First measurement of νμ charged-current π0 production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

Author

Adams, C, Alrashed, M, An, R, Anthony, J, Asaadi, J, Ashkenazi, A, Auger, M, Balasubramanian, S, Baller, B, Barnes, C, Barr, G, Bass, M, Bay, F, Bhat, A, Bhattacharya, K, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Bolton, T, Camilleri, L, Caratelli, D, Caro Terrazas, I, Carr, R, Castillo Fernandez, R, Cavanna, F, Cerati, G, Chen, H, Chen, Y, Church, E, Cianci, D, Cohen, E, Collin, GH, Conrad, JM, Convery, M, Cooper-Troendle, L, Crespo-Anadón, JI, Del Tutto, M, Devitt, D, Diaz, A, Duffy, K, Dytman, S, Eberly, B, Ereditato, A, Escudero Sanchez, L, Esquivel, J, Evans, JJ, Fadeeva, AA, Fitzpatrick, RS, Fleming, BT, Franco, D, Furmanski, AP, Garcia-Gamez, D, Genty, V, Goeldi, D, Gollapinni, S, Goodwin, O, Gramellini, E, Greenlee, H, Grosso, R, Guenette, R, Guzowski, P, Hackenburg, A, Hamilton, P, Hen, O, Hewes, J, Hill, C, Horton-Smith, GA, Hourlier, A, Huang, EC, James, C, Jan De Vries, J, Ji, X, Jiang, L, Johnson, RA, Joshi, J, Jostlein, H, Jwa, YJ, Karagiorgi, G, Ketchum, W, Kirby, B, Kirby, M, Kobilarcik, T, Kreslo, I, Lepetic, I, Li, Y, Lister, A, Littlejohn, BR, Lockwitz, S, Lorca, D, Louis, WC, Luethi, M, Lundberg, B, Luo, X, Marchionni, A, Marcocci, S, Mariani, C, Marshall, J, Martin-Albo, J, Martinez Caicedo, DA, Mastbaum, A, Meddage, V, Escudero Sanchez, Lorena [0000-0003-3464-9206], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
Quantum Physics, Particle and Plasma Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, hep-ex, Molecular, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear, physics.ins-det, Atomic, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the flux-integrated cross section of $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current single $\pi^{0}$ production on argon. This measurement is performed with the MicroBooNE detector, an 85 ton active mass liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. This result on argon is compared to past measurements on lighter nuclei to investigate the scaling assumptions used in models of the production and transport of pions in neutrino-nucleus scattering. The techniques used are an important demonstration of the successful reconstruction and analysis of neutrino interactions producing electromagnetic final states using a liquid argon time projection chamber operating at the earth's surface.

Published
2019

6. Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system

Author

Adams, C., Collaboration, Microboone, Alrashed, M., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Auger, M., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Bass, M., Bay, F., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, K., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Camilleri, Leslie, Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Carr, Rachel E., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Church, E., Cianci, D., Cohen, E., Collin, G. H., Conrad, Janet M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Diaz, A., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Esquivel, J., Evans, J. J., Fadeeva, A. A., Fitzpatrick, R. S., Fleming, B. T., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Garvey, G. T., Genty, V., Goeldi, D., Gollapinniz, S., Goodwin, O., Gramellini, E., Greenlee, H., Grosso, R., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hackenburg, A., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Hewes, J., Hill, C., Horton-Smith, Glenn A., Hourlier, A., Huang, E-C, James, C., Jan de Vries, J., Jiang, L., Johnson, R. A., Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Jwa, Y-J, Karagiorgi, Georgia S., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Li, Y., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R., Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Marcocci, S., Mariani, Camillo, Marshall, J., Martin-Albo, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., Mastbaum, A., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Mills, G. B., Mistry, K., Mogan, A., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Pandey, V., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Porzio, D., Pulliam, G., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Rafique, A., Rochester, L., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Russell, B., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, Marjorie Hansen, Sharankova, R., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, Joshua, St John, J., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thomson, M., Thornton, R. T., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. T., Tufanli, S., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Van de Water, R. G., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Wierman, K., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Woodruff, K., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Zeller, Geralyn P., Zennameh, J., Zhang, C., and Center for Neutrino Physics

Subjects
Particle identification methods, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Particle tracking detectors, Neutrino detectors
Abstract

The MicroBooNE detector utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) with an 85 t active mass to study neutrino interactions along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. With a deployment location near ground level, the detector records many cosmic muon tracks in each beam-related detector trigger that can be misidentified as signals of interest. To reduce these cosmogenic backgrounds, we have designed and constructed a TPC-external Cosmic Ray Tagger (CRT). This sub-system was developed by the Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Albert Einstein center for fundamental physics, University of Bern. The system utilizes plastic scintillation modules to provide precise time and position information for TPC-traversing particles. Successful matching of TPC tracks and CRT data will allow us to reduce cosmogenic background and better characterize the light collection system and LArTPC data using cosmic muons. In this paper we describe the design and installation of the MicroBooNE CRT system and provide an overview of a series of tests done to verify the proper operation of the system and its components during installation, commissioning, and physics data-taking. Public domain – authored by a U.S. government employee

Published
2019

7. Comparison of nu(mu)-Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions: MicroBooNE Collaboration

Author

Adams, C., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Auger, M., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Bass, M., Bay, F., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, K., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Camilleri, Leslie, Caratelli, D., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, H., Chen, Y., Church, E., Cianci, D., Cohen, E., Collin, G. H., Conrad, Janet M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Diaz, A., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Esquivel, J., Evans, J. J., Fadeeva, A. A., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Furmanski, A. P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Garvey, G. T., Genty, V., Goeldi, D., Golapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Greenlee, H., Grosso, R., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hackenburg, A., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Hewes, J., Hill, C., Ho, J., Horton-Smith, Glenn A., Hourlier, A., Huang, E-C, James, C., Jan de Vries, J., Jiang, L., Johnson, R. A., Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Jwa, Y-J, Kaleko, D., Karagiorgi, Georgia S., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Li, Y., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R., Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Marcocci, S., Mariani, Camillo, Marshall, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., Mastbaum, A., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Miceli, T., Mills, G. B., Mogan, A., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Pandey, V., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Porzio, D., Pulliam, G., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Rafique, A., Rochester, L., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Russell, B., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, Marjorie Hansen, Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, Joshua, St John, J., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thomson, M., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. T., Tufanli, S., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Van de Water, R. G., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Wierman, K., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Woodruff, K., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Zeller, Geralyn P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., and Center for Neutrino Physics

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab. We evaluate three neutrino interaction models based on the widely used GENIE event generator using these observables. The measurement uses a data set consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon candidate fully contained within the MicroBooNE detector. These data were collected in 2016 with the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, which has an average neutrino energy of MeV, using an exposure corresponding to 5.0x1019 protons-on-target. The analysis employs fully automatic event selection and charged particle track reconstruction and uses a data-driven technique to separate neutrino interactions from cosmic ray background events. We find that GENIE models consistently describe the shapes of a large number of kinematic distributions for fixed observed multiplicity. Public domain – authored by a U.S. government employee

Published
2019

8. Measurement of cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiencies in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using a small external cosmic-ray counter

Author

Acciarri, R, Adams, C, An, R, Anthony, J, Asaadi, J, Auger, M, Bagby, L, Balasubramanian, S, Baller, B, Barnes, C, Barr, G, Bass, M, Bay, F, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Bolton, T, Camilleri, L, Caratelli, D, Carls, B, Castillo Fernandez, R, Cavanna, F, Chen, H, Church, E, Cianci, D, Cohen, E, Collin, GH, Conrad, JM, Convery, M, Crespo-Anadón, JI, Del Tutto, M, Devitt, D, Dytman, S, Eberly, B, Ereditato, A, Escudero Sanchez, L, Esquivel, J, Fadeeva, AA, Fleming, BT, Foreman, W, Furmanski, AP, Garcia-Gamez, D, Garvey, GT, Genty, V, Goeldi, D, Gollapinni, S, Graf, N, Gramellini, E, Greenlee, H, Grosso, R, Guenette, R, Hackenburg, A, Hamilton, P, Hen, O, Hewes, J, Hill, C, Ho, J, Horton-Smith, G, Hourlier, A, Huang, EC, James, C, Jan De Vries, J, Jen, CM, Jiang, L, Johnson, RA, Joshi, J, Jostlein, H, Kaleko, D, Kalousis, LN, Karagiorgi, G, Ketchum, W, Kirby, B, Kirby, M, Kobilarcik, T, Kreslo, I, Lange, G, Laube, A, Li, Y, Lister, A, Littlejohn, BR, Lockwitz, S, Lorca, D, Louis, WC, Luethi, M, Lundberg, B, Luo, X, Marchionni, A, Mariani, C, Marshall, J, Martinez Caicedo, DA, Meddage, V, Miceli, T, Mills, GB, Moon, J, Mooney, M, Moore, CD, Mousseau, J, Murrells, R, Naples, D, Nienaber, P, and Nowak, J

Subjects
Engineering, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, hep-ex, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Time projection chambers, Physical Sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors, Neutrino detectors, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Data reduction methods
Abstract

The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber at Fermilab designed to study short-baseline neutrino oscillations and neutrino-argon interaction cross-section. Due to its location near the surface, a good understanding of cosmic muons as a source of backgrounds is of fundamental importance for the experiment. We present a method of using an external 0.5 m (L) × 0.5 m (W) muon counter stack, installed above the main detector, to determine the cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiency in MicroBooNE. Data are acquired with this external muon counter stack placed in three different positions, corresponding to cosmic rays intersecting different parts of the detector. The data reconstruction efficiency of tracks in the detector is found to be ϵdata=(97.1±0.1 (stat) ± 1.4 (sys))%, in good agreement with the Monte Carlo reconstruction efficiency ϵMC = (97.4±0.1)%. This analysis represents a small-scale demonstration of the method that can be used with future data coming from a recently installed cosmic-ray tagger system, which will be able to tag ≈80% of the cosmic rays passing through the MicroBooNE detector.

Published
2017

9. Design and construction of the MicroBooNE detector

Author

Acciarri, R, Adams, C, An, R, Aparicio, A, Aponte, S, Asaadi, J, Auger, M, Ayoub, N, Bagby, L, Baller, B, Barger, R, Barr, G, Bass, M, Bay, F, Biery, K, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Bocean, V, Boehnlein, D, Bogert, VD, Bolton, T, Bugel, L, Callahan, C, Camilleri, L, Caratelli, D, Carls, B, Castillo Fernandez, R, Cavanna, F, Chappa, S, Chen, H, Chen, K, Chi, CY, Chiu, CS, Church, E, Cianci, D, Collin, GH, Conrad, JM, Convery, M, Cornele, J, Cowan, P, Crespo-Anadon, JI, Crutcher, G, Darve, C, Davis, R, Del Tutto, M, Devitt, D, Duffin, S, Dytman, S, Eberly, B, Ereditato, A, Erickson, D, Escudero Sanchez, L, Esquivel, J, Farooq, S, Farrell, J, Featherston, D, Fleming, BT, Foreman, W, Furmanski, AP, Genty, V, Geynisman, M, Goeldi, D, Goff, B, Gollapinni, S, Graf, N, Gramellini, E, Green, J, Greene, A, Greenlee, H, Griffin, T, Grosso, R, Guenette, R, Hackenburg, A, Haenni, R, Hamilton, P, Healey, P, Hen, O, Henderson, E, Hewes, J, Hill, C, Hill, K, Himes, L, Ho, J, Horton-Smith, G, Huffman, D, Ignarra, CM, James, C, James, E, Jan De Vries, J, Jaskierny, W, Jen, CM, Jiang, L, Johnson, B, Johnson, M, Johnson, RA, Jones, BJP, Joshi, J, Jostlein, H, Kaleko, D, and Kalousis, LN

Subjects
Other Physical Sciences, Engineering, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, hep-ex, Time projection chambers, Physical Sciences, Noble liquid detectors, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino detectors, physics.ins-det, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract

This paper describes the design and construction of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber and associated systems. MicroBooNE is the first phase of the Short Baseline Neutrino program, located at Fermilab, and will utilize the capabilities of liquid argon detectors to examine a rich assortment of physics topics. In this document details of design specifications, assembly procedures, and acceptance tests are reported.

Published
2017

10. Comparison of $${\varvec{\nu }}_{\varvec{\mu }}-$$ νμ- Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions

Author

Adams, C., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Auger, M., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Bass, M., Bay, F., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, K., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, H., Chen, Y., Church, E., Cianci, D., Cohen, E., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Diaz, A., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Esquivel, J., Evans, J. J., Fadeeva, A. A., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Furmanski, A. P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Garvey, G. T., Genty, V., Goeldi, D., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Greenlee, H., Grosso, R., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hackenburg, A., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Hewes, J., Hill, C., Ho, J., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., En-Chuan Huang, James, C., Jan Vries, J., Jiang, L., Johnson, R. A., Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., J Jwa, Y., Kaleko, D., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Li, Y., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R., Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Marcocci, S., Mariani, C., Marshall, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., Mastbaum, A., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Miceli, T., Mills, G. B., Mogan, A., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Pandey, V., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Porzio, D., Pulliam, G., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Rafique, A., Rochester, L., Ross-Lonergan, M., Rudolf Rohr, C., Russell, B., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., St John, J., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thomson, M., Toups, M., T Tsai, Y., Tufanli, S., Usher, T., Pontseele, W., Water, R. G., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Wierman, K., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Woodruff, K., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, lcsh:QB460-466, lcsh:QC770-798, High Energy Physics::Experiment, lcsh:Astrophysics, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity
Abstract

We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab. We evaluate three neutrino interaction models based on the widely used GENIE event generator using these observables. The measurement uses a data set consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon candidate fully contained within the MicroBooNE detector. These data were collected in 2016 with the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, which has an average neutrino energy of $$800~\hbox {MeV}$$ 800 MeV , using an exposure corresponding to $$ 5.0\times 10^{19}$$ 5.0 × 10 19 protons-on-target. The analysis employs fully automatic event selection and charged particle track reconstruction and uses a data-driven technique to separate neutrino interactions from cosmic ray background events. We find that GENIE models consistently describe the shapes of a large number of kinematic distributions for fixed observed multiplicity.

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11. Comparison of $\nu_\mu$-Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions

Author

Adams, C., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Auger, M., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Bass, M., Bay, F., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, K., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, H., Chen, Y., Church, E., Cianci, D., Cohen, E., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Diaz, A., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Esquivel, J., J Evans, J., Fadeeva, A. A., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Furmanski, A. P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Garvey, G. T., Genty, V., Goeldi, D., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Greenlee, H., Grosso, R., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hackenburg, A., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Hewes, J., Hill, C., Ho, J., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Huang, E. -C, James, C., Jan Vries, J., Jiang, L., Johnson, R. A., Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Jwa, Y. -J, Kaleko, D., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Li, Y., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R., Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Marcocci, S., Mariani, C., Marshall, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., Mastbaum, A., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Miceli, T., Mills, G. B., Mogan, A., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Pandey, V., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Porzio, D., Pulliam, G., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Rafique, A., Rochester, L., Ross-Lonergan, M., Rudolf Rohr, C., Russell, B., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Stefano Roberto Soleti, Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., John, J. St, Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thomson, M., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T, Tufanli, S., Usher, T., Pontseele, W., Water, R. G., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Wierman, K., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Woodruff, K., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab. We evaluate three neutrino interaction models based on the widely used GENIE event generator using these observables. The measurement uses a data set consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon candidate fully contained within the MicroBooNE detector. These data were collected in 2016 with the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, which has an average neutrino energy of 800 MeV, using an exposure corresponding to 5E19 protons-on-target. The analysis employs fully automatic event selection and charged particle track reconstruction and uses a data-driven technique to separate neutrino interactions from cosmic ray background events. We find that GENIE models consistently describe the shapes of a large number of kinematic distributions for fixed observed multiplicity., Comment: 31 pages, 39 figures, 10 tables

12. The Liquid Argon In A Testbeam (LArIAT) Experiment

Author

M. Soderberg, T. Maruyama, E. Kearns, Z. Williams, M. Reggiani Guzzo, J. Hugon, W. Badgett, A. Falcone, H. Wenzel, J. Esquivel, B. Baller, A. M. Szelc, G. P. Zeller, Makoto Tabata, R. Carey, D. Gratieri, J. I. Cevallos Aleman, B. Rebel, Laura Paulucci, T. Kobilarcik, M. Kordosky, O. Benevides Rodrigues, W. Metcalf, E. Segreto, R. Gran, L. Mendes Santos, J. M. Paley, H. Jostlein, Michael H Kirby, Craig L. Hill, A. Holin, J. Asaadi, T. Ghosh, D. Totani, T. Yang, A. A. Machado, D. Phan, O. Palamara, F. Spagliardi, P. Dedin, R. Castillo Fernandez, J. St. John, A. Marchionni, M. V. Dos Santos, R. A. Johnson, D. Stefan, S. Shahsavarani, R. Sulej, Alec Habig, P. Kryczynski, B. Passarelli Gelli, M. Soares Nunes, M. Ross-Lonergan, P. M. Hamilton, S. Lockwitz, W. Foreman, M. Elkins, Daniel Gastler, J. Ho, R. Acciarri, D. Garcia-Gamez, Irene Nutini, G. Pulliam, Karol Lang, X. Luo, E. Kemp, C. Adams, D. Sessumes, P. Guzowski, W. Flanagan, R. J. Nichol, I. Parmaksiz, M. Tzanov, C. Bromberg, D. A. Jensen, B.T. Fleming, Amir Farbin, M. Stephens, Jong-Sung Yu, H. Kawai, R. Bouabid, J. J. Evans, A. Hahn, D. W. Schmitz, R. Linehan, R. A. Gomes, E. Gramellini, M. Backfish, Junjie Zhu, C. A. Moura, M. Stancari, D. Smith, D. Edmunds, D. Walker, J. L. Raaf, B. Soubasis, G. A. Valdiviesso, A. Olivier, F. Cavanna, E. Iwai, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, Carlos Escobar, D. Shooltz, S. Zhang, Animesh Chatterjee, Acciarri, R, Adams, C, Asaadi, J, Backfish, M, Badgett, W, Baller, B, Benevides Rodrigues, O, Blaszczyk, F, Bouabid, R, Bromberg, C, Carey, R, Castillo Fernandez, R, Cavanna, F, Cevallos Aleman, J, Chatterjee, A, Dedin, P, Dos Santos, M, Edmunds, D, Elkins, M, Escobar, C, Esquivel, J, Evans, J, Falcone, A, Farbin, A, Flanagan, W, Fleming, B, Foreman, W, Garcia-Gamez, D, Gastler, D, Ghosh, T, Gomes, R, Gramellini, E, Gran, R, Gratieri, D, Guzowski, P, Habig, A, Hahn, A, Hamilton, P, Hill, C, Ho, J, Holin, A, Hugon, J, Iwai, E, Jensen, D, Johnson, R, Jostlein, H, Kawai, H, Kearns, E, Kemp, E, Kirby, M, Kobilarcik, T, Kordosky, M, Kryczynski, P, Lang, K, Linehan, R, Lockwitz, S, Luo, X, Machado, A, Marchionni, A, Maruyama, T, Mendes Santos, L, Metcalf, W, Moura, C, Nichol, R, Nutini, I, Olivier, A, Palamara, O, Paley, J, Parmaksiz, I, Passarelli Gelli, B, Paulucci, L, Phan, D, Pulliam, G, Raaf, J, Rebel, B, Reggiani Guzzo, M, Ross-Lonergan, M, Soares Nunes, M, Schmitz, D, Segreto, E, Sessumes, D, Shahsavarani, S, Shooltz, D, Smith, D, Soderberg, M, Soubasis, B, Spagliardi, F, John, J, Stancari, M, Stefan, D, Stephens, M, Sulej, R, Szelc, A, Tabata, M, Totani, D, Tzanov, M, Valdiviesso, G, Walker, D, Wenzel, H, Williams, Z, Yang, T, Yu, J, Zeller, G, Zhang, S, and Zhu, J

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Materials science, double-phase), ionization, Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, Particle tracking detectors, Time projection chambers, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Theory, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0302 clinical medicine, 0103 physical sciences, Fermilab, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Argon, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Charged particle, Particle tracking detector, chemistry, Beamline, Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization), Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The LArIAT liquid argon time projection chamber, placed in a tertiary beam of charged particles at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility, has collected large samples of pions, muons, electrons, protons, and kaons in the momentum range 0∼30-0140 MeV/c. This paper describes the main aspects of the detector and beamline, and also reports on calibrations performed for the detector and beamline components.

Published
2019
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