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1. Search for heavy neutral leptons decaying into muon-pion pairs in the MicroBooNE detector

Author

Abratenko, P, Alrashed, M, An, R, Anthony, J, Asaadi, J, Ashkenazi, A, Balasubramanian, S, Baller, B, Barnes, C, Barr, G, Basque, V, 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, Cohen, EO, Conrad, JM, Convery, M, Cooper-Troendle, L, Crespo-Anadón, JI, Del Tutto, M, Devitt, D, Domine, L, Duffy, K, Dytman, S, Eberly, B, Ereditato, A, Escudero Sanchez, L, Evans, JJ, Fitzpatrick, RS, Fleming, BT, Foppiani, N, Franco, D, Furmanski, AP, Garcia-Gamez, D, Gardiner, S, Genty, V, Goeldi, D, Gollapinni, S, Goodwin, O, Gramellini, E, Green, P, Greenlee, H, Gu, L, Gu, W, Guenette, R, Guzowski, P, Hamilton, P, Hen, O, Hill, C, Horton-Smith, GA, Hourlier, A, Huang, EC, Itay, R, James, C, Jan De Vries, J, Ji, X, Jiang, L, Jo, JH, Johnson, RA, Joshi, J, Jwa, YJ, Karagiorgi, G, Ketchum, W, Kirby, B, Kirby, M, Kobilarcik, T, Kreslo, I, Lazur, R, 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, Mason, K, Mastbaum, A, McConkey, N, and Meddage, V

Subjects
hep-ex, physics.ins-det
Abstract

We present upper limits on the production of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) decaying to μπ pairs using data collected with the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber (TPC) operating at Fermilab. This search is the first of its kind performed in a liquid-argon TPC. We use data collected in 2017 and 2018 corresponding to an exposure of 2.0×1020 protons on target from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, which produces mainly muon neutrinos with an average energy of ≈800 MeV. HNLs with higher mass are expected to have a longer time of flight to the liquid-argon TPC than Standard Model neutrinos. The data are therefore recorded with a dedicated trigger configured to detect HNL decays that occur after the neutrino spill reaches the detector. We set upper limits at the 90% confidence level on the element |Uμ4|2 of the extended PMNS mixing matrix in the range |Uμ4|2

Published
2020

2. 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
MicroBooNE Collaboration, hep-ex, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
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 0.8 GeV. 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

3. Deep neural network for pixel-level electromagnetic particle identification in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

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, 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, 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, and Mettler, T

Subjects
hep-ex, cs.CV, physics.data-an, physics.ins-det
Abstract

We have developed a convolutional neural network that can make a pixel-level prediction of objects in image data recorded by a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) for the first time. We describe the network design, training techniques, and software tools developed to train this network. The goal of this work is to develop a complete deep neural network based data reconstruction chain for the MicroBooNE detector. We show the first demonstration of a network's validity on real LArTPC data using MicroBooNE collection plane images. The demonstration is performed for stopping muon and a νμ charged-current neutral pion data samples.

Published
2019

4. 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, and Meddage, V

Subjects
hep-ex, physics.ins-det
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. Comparison of 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, GH, Conrad, JM, Convery, M, Cooper-Troendle, L, Crespo-Anadón, JI, Del Tutto, M, Devitt, A, Diaz, A, Dytman, S, Eberly, B, Ereditato, A, Escudero Sanchez, L, Esquivel, J, Evans, JJ, Fadeeva, AA, Fleming, BT, Foreman, W, Furmanski, AP, Garcia-Gamez, D, Garvey, GT, 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, GA, Hourlier, A, Huang, E-C, James, C, de Vries, J Jan, Jiang, L, Johnson, RA, 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, BR, Lockwitz, S, Lorca, D, Louis, WC, Luethi, M, Lundberg, B, Luo, X, Marchionni, A, Marcocci, S, Mariani, C, Marshall, J, Martinez Caicedo, DA, Mastbaum, A, Meddage, V, Mettler, T, Miceli, T, Mills, GB, Mogan, A, Moon, J, Mooney, M, and Moore, CD

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, physics.ins-det, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
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 800MeV, using an exposure corresponding to 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.

Published
2019

6. Comparison of ν μ - 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, L, Caratelli, D, 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, Dytman, S, Eberly, B, Ereditato, A, Escudero Sanchez, L, Esquivel, J, Evans, JJ, Fadeeva, AA, Fleming, BT, Foreman, W, Furmanski, AP, Garcia-Gamez, D, Garvey, GT, 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, GA, Hourlier, A, Huang, EC, James, C, de Vries, JJ, Jiang, L, Johnson, RA, Joshi, J, Jostlein, H, Jwa, YJ, Kaleko, D, Karagiorgi, G, Ketchum, W, Kirby, B, Kirby, M, Kobilarcik, T, Kreslo, 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, Martinez Caicedo, DA, Mastbaum, A, Meddage, V, Mettler, T, Miceli, T, Mills, GB, Mogan, A, Moon, J, Mooney, M, and Moore, CD

Subjects
hep-ex, physics.ins-det, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics
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 800MeV, using an exposure corresponding to 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.

Published
2019

7. The Pandora multi-algorithm approach to automated pattern recognition of cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector.

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, E-C, James, C, Jan de Vries, J, Jen, C-M, Jiang, L, Johnson, RA, Joshi, J, Jostlein, H, Kaleko, D, Karagiorgi, G, Ketchum, W, Kirby, B, Kirby, M, Kobilarcik, T, Kreslo, I, 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, Nowak, J, Palamara, O, and Paolone, V

Subjects
hep-ex, physics.data-an, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract

The development and operation of liquid-argon time-projection chambers for neutrino physics has created a need for new approaches to pattern recognition in order to fully exploit the imaging capabilities offered by this technology. Whereas the human brain can excel at identifying features in the recorded events, it is a significant challenge to develop an automated, algorithmic solution. The Pandora Software Development Kit provides functionality to aid the design and implementation of pattern-recognition algorithms. It promotes the use of a multi-algorithm approach to pattern recognition, in which individual algorithms each address a specific task in a particular topology. Many tens of algorithms then carefully build up a picture of the event and, together, provide a robust automated pattern-recognition solution. This paper describes details of the chain of over one hundred Pandora algorithms and tools used to reconstruct cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector. Metrics that assess the current pattern-recognition performance are presented for simulated MicroBooNE events, using a selection of final-state event topologies.

Published
2018

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
Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors, Time projection chambers, Data reduction methods, Neutrino detectors, hep-ex, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Physical Sciences, Engineering
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
Neutrino detectors, Noble liquid detectors, Time projection chambers, physics.ins-det, hep-ex, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Other Physical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
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. 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, 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., 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., and Zhang, C.

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2021
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11. Search for neutrino-induced neutral-current Δ radiative decay in MicroBooNE and a first test of the MiniBooNE low energy excess under a single-photon hypothesis

Author

Abratenko, P., An, R., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., 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., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Caro Terrazas, I., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Cianci, D., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., 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., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y.-J., Kalra, D., 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, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, John, 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., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nebot-Guinot, M., Neely, R. K., Newmark, D. A., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., 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., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., 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., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., HASH(0x5651c97ceac8), and MicroBooNE Collaboration

Subjects
QC
Abstract

We report results from a search for neutrino-induced neutral current (NC) resonant Δ ( 1232 ) baryon production followed by Δ radiative decay, with a ⟨ 0.8 ⟩ GeV neutrino beam. Data corresponding to MicroBooNE’s first three years of operations ( 6.80 × 10 20 protons on target) are used to select single-photon events with one or zero protons and without charged leptons in the final state ( 1 γ 1 p and 1γ 0 p , respectively). The background is constrained via an in situ high-purity measurement of NC π 0 events, made possible via dedicated 2γ 1 p and 2γ 0 p selections. A total of 16 and 153 events are observed for the 1γ 1 p and 1γ 0 p selections, respectively, compared to a constrained background prediction of 20.5 ± 3.65 ( syst ) and 145.1 ± 13.8 ( syst ) events. The data lead to a bound on an anomalous enhancement of the normalization of NC Δ radiative decay of less than 2.3 times the predicted nominal rate for this process at the 90% confidence level (C.L.). The measurement disfavors a candidate photon interpretation of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess as a factor of 3.18 times the nominal NC Δ radiative decay rate at the 94.8% C.L., in favor of the nominal prediction, and represents a greater than 50-fold improvement over the world’s best limit on single-photon production in NC interactions in the sub-GeV neutrino energy range.

Published
2022

12. 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

13. The Liquid Argon in A Testbeam (LArIAT) experiment

Author

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

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
2020

14. Wire-cell 3D pattern recognition techniques for neutrino event reconstruction in large LArTPCs: algorithm description and quantitative evaluation with MicroBooNE simulation

Author

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

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2022
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15. Measurement of the longitudinal diffusion of ionization electrons in the MicroBooNE detector

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-Anadón, JI, Del Tutto, M, Dennis, SR, 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, Lister, A, 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, Dennis, Steve [0000-0001-9099-8895], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
Charge transport and multiplication in liquid media, 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.

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2021
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16. 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

17. Electromagnetic shower reconstruction and energy validation with Michel electrons and π0 samples for the deep-learning-based analyses in MicroBooNE

Author

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

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2021
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18. Measurement of the longitudinal diffusion of ionization electrons in the MicroBooNE detector

Author

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

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2021
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19. Neutrino event selection in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using Wire-Cell 3D imaging, clustering, and charge-light matching

Author

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

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2021
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20. Measurement of differential cross sections for <math><msub><mi>ν</mi><mi>μ</mi></msub></math>-Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector

Author

Abratenko, P., Alrashed, M., 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., Devitt, D., Diurba, R., Domine, L., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Evans, J. J., 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., Hall, E., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Huang, E.C., Itay, R., James, C., Jan de Vries, J., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y.J., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., LaZur, R., Lepetic, I., Li, K., Li, Y., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Marcocci, S., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martin-Albo, 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., Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Neely, R. K., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Paudel, A., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I. D., Porzio, D., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rodriguez Rondon, J., Rogers, H. E., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Russell, B., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Toups, M., Tsai, Y.T., Tufanli, S., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wu, W., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

Abstract

We present an analysis of MicroBooNE data with a signature of one muon, no pions, and at least one proton above a momentum threshold of 300 MeV/c (CC0πNp). This is the first differential cross-section measurement of this topology in neutrino-argon interactions. We achieve a significantly lower proton momentum threshold than previous carbon and scintillator-based experiments. Using data collected from a total of approximately 1.6×1020 protons on target, we measure the muon neutrino cross section for the CC0πNp interaction channel in argon at MicroBooNE in the Booster Neutrino Beam which has a mean energy of around 800 MeV. We present the results from a data sample with estimated efficiency of 29% and purity of 76% as differential cross sections in five reconstructed variables: the muon momentum and polar angle, the leading proton momentum and polar angle, and the muon-proton opening angle. We include smearing matrices that can be used to “forward fold” theoretical predictions for comparison with these data. We compare the measured differential cross sections to a number of recent theory predictions demonstrating largely good agreement with this first-ever dataset on argon.

Published
2020

21. First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike ν_{μ}-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector

Author

Abratenko, P., Alrashed, M., 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., Cohen, E. O., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Diurba, R., Domine, L., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Evans, J. J., Fiorentini Aguirre, G. A., Fitzpatrick, R. S., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Gollapinni, S., Goodwin, O., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hall, E., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Huang, E.C., Itay, R., James, C., Jan de Vries, J., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y.J., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., LaZur, R., Lepetic, I., Li, K., Li, Y., Littlejohn, B. R., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Marcocci, S., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martin-Albo, 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., Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Neely, R. K., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Paudel, A., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I. D., Porzio, D., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rodriguez Rondon, J., Rogers, H. E., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Russell, B., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thornton, R. T., Thorpe, C., Toups, M., Tsai, Y.T., Tufanli, S., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Van de Water, R. G., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wu, W., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

Abstract

We report on the first measurement of flux-integrated single differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino (νμ) scattering on argon with a muon and a proton in the final state, Ar40 (νμ,μp)X. The measurement was carried out using the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber detector with an exposure of 4.59×1019 protons on target. Events are selected to enhance the contribution of CC quasielastic (CCQE) interactions. The data are reported in terms of a total cross section as well as single differential cross sections in final state muon and proton kinematics. We measure the integrated per-nucleus CCQE-like cross section (i.e., for interactions leading to a muon, one proton, and no pions above detection threshold) of (4.93±0.76stat±1.29sys)×10−38 cm2, in good agreement with theoretical calculations. The single differential cross sections are also in overall good agreement with theoretical predictions, except at very forward muon scattering angles that correspond to low-momentum-transfer events.

Published
2020

22. Measurement of the atmospheric muon rate with the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC

Author

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

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2021
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23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

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

Author

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

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2019
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27. Comparison of nu(mu)-Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions: MicroBooNE Collaboration

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Center for Neutrino Physics, 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., Center for Neutrino Physics, 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., and Zhang, C.

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.

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2019

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

Author

Center for Neutrino Physics, 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., Center for Neutrino Physics, 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., and Zhang, C.

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.

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2019

29. Comparisons and challenges of modern neutrino scattering experiments (TENSIONS2016 report)

Author

Betancourt, M., primary, Bolognesi, S., additional, Calcutt, J., additional, Castillo Fernandez, R., additional, Cudd, A., additional, Dytman, S., additional, Eberly, B., additional, Furmanski, A.P., additional, Fine, R., additional, Grange, J., additional, Jiang, L., additional, Katori, T., additional, Kleckner, J., additional, Kleykamp, J., additional, Mahn, K., additional, Messerly, B., additional, Perdue, G., additional, Pickering, L., additional, Stowell, J.P., additional, Sobczyk, J., additional, Suarez, N., additional, Tanaka, H., additional, Tayloe, R., additional, Thornton, R.T., additional, Wilking, M., additional, Wilkinson, C., additional, Wret, C., additional, and Zeller, G.P., additional

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2018
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30. The Pandora multi-algorithm approach to automated pattern recognition of cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector

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Collin, G. H., Conrad, Janet Marie, Hen, Or, Hourlier, Adrien C., Moon, J., Wongjirad, Taritree, Yates, Lauren Elizabeth, 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., Convery, M., Crespo-Anadón, J. I, Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Esquivel, J., Fadeeva, A. A, Fleming, B. T, Foreman, W., Furmanski, A. P, Garcia-Gamez, D., Garvey, G. T, Genty, V., Goeldi, D., Gollapinni, S., Graf, N., Gramellini, E., Greenlee, H., Grosso, R., Guenette, R., Hackenburg, A., Hamilton, P., Hewes, J., Hill, C., Ho, J., Horton-Smith, G., Huang, E.-C., James, C., Jan de Vries, J., Jen, C.-M., Jiang, L., Johnson, R. A, Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Kaleko, D., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Laube, A., Li, Y., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R, Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C, Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Mariani, C., Marshall, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A, Meddage, V., Miceli, T., Mills, G. B, Mooney, M., Moore, C. D, Mousseau, J., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F, Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Porzio, D., Pulliam, G., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L, Rafique, A., Rochester, L., Rudolf von 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., Szelc, A. M, Tagg, N., 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., Wickremasinghe, D. A, Wolbers, S., Woodruff, K., Yang, T., Zeller, G. P, Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., Collin, G. H., Conrad, Janet Marie, Hen, Or, Hourlier, Adrien C., Moon, J., Wongjirad, Taritree, Yates, Lauren Elizabeth, 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., Convery, M., Crespo-Anadón, J. I, Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Esquivel, J., Fadeeva, A. A, Fleming, B. T, Foreman, W., Furmanski, A. P, Garcia-Gamez, D., Garvey, G. T, Genty, V., Goeldi, D., Gollapinni, S., Graf, N., Gramellini, E., Greenlee, H., Grosso, R., Guenette, R., Hackenburg, A., Hamilton, P., Hewes, J., Hill, C., Ho, J., Horton-Smith, G., Huang, E.-C., James, C., Jan de Vries, J., Jen, C.-M., Jiang, L., Johnson, R. A, Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Kaleko, D., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Laube, A., Li, Y., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R, Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C, Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Mariani, C., Marshall, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A, Meddage, V., Miceli, T., Mills, G. B, Mooney, M., Moore, C. D, Mousseau, J., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F, Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Porzio, D., Pulliam, G., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L, Rafique, A., Rochester, L., Rudolf von 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., Szelc, A. M, Tagg, N., 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., Wickremasinghe, D. A, Wolbers, S., Woodruff, K., Yang, T., Zeller, G. P, Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

Abstract

The development and operation of liquid-argon time-projection chambers for neutrino physics has created a need for new approaches to pattern recognition in order to fully exploit the imaging capabilities offered by this technology. Whereas the human brain can excel at identifying features in the recorded events, it is a significant challenge to develop an automated, algorithmic solution. The Pandora Software Development Kit provides functionality to aid the design and implementation of pattern-recognition algorithms. It promotes the use of a multi-algorithm approach to pattern recognition, in which individual algorithms each address a specific task in a particular topology. Many tens of algorithms then carefully build up a picture of the event and, together, provide a robust automated pattern-recognition solution. This paper describes details of the chain of over one hundred Pandora algorithms and tools used to reconstruct cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector. Metrics that assess the current pattern-recognition performance are presented for simulated MicroBooNE events, using a selection of final-state event topologies.

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2018

31. Design and construction of the MicroBooNE detector

Author

Center for Neutrino Physics, Physics, 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, V. D., Bolton, T., Bugel, L., Callahan, C., Camilleri, Leslie, Caratelli, D., Carls, B., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Chappa, S., Chen, H., Chen, K., Chi, C. Y., Chiu, C. S., Church, E., Cianci, D., Collin, G. H., Conrad, Janet M., Convery, M., Cornele, J., Cowan, P., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., 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, B. T., Foreman, W., Furmanski, A. P., Genty, V., Geynisman, M., Goeldi, D., Goff, B., Golapinni, 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, Glenn A., Huffman, D., Ignarra, C. M., James, C., James, E., Jan de Vries, J., Jaskierny, W., Jen, C. M., Jiang, L., Johnson, B., Johnson, M., Johnson, R. A., Jones, B. J. P., Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Kaleko, D., Kalousis, L. N., Karagiorgi, Georgia S., Katori, T., Kellogg, P., Ketchum, W., Kilmer, J., King, B., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Klein, E., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Krull, R., Kubinski, R., Lange, G., Lanni, F., Lathrop, A., Laube, A., Leeg, W. M., Li, Y., Lissauer, D., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R., Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Lukhanin, G., Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Mahler, G., Majoros, I., Makowiecki, D., Marchionni, A., Mariani, Camillo, Markley, D., Marshall, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., McDonald, K. T., McKee, D., McLean, A., Mead, J., Meddage, V., Miceli, T., Mills, G. B., Miner, W., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moore, C. D., Moss, Z., Mousseau, J., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Norris, B., Norton, N., Nowak, J., O'Boyle, M., Olszanowski, T., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Pavlovic, Z., Pelkey, R., Phipps, M., Pordes, S., Porzio, D., Pulliam, G., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Rameika, R., Rebel, B., Rechenmacher, R., Rescia, S., Rochester, L., von Rohr, C. R., Ruga, A., Russell, B., Sanders, R., Sands, W. R., Sarychev, M., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Scott, R., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, Marjorie Hansen, Shoun, M., Sinclair, J., Sippach, W., Smidt, T., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Solano-Gonzalez, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Sondericker, J., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, Joshua, St John, J., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Szelc, A. M., Taheri, K., Tagg, N., Tatum, K., Teng, J., Terao, K., Thomson, M., Thorn, C., Tiliman, J., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. T., Tufanli, S., Usher, T., Utes, M., Van de Water, R. G., Vendetta, C., Vergani, S., Voirin, E., Voirin, J., Viren, B., Watkins, P., Weber, M., Wester, T., Weston, J., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Woodruff, K., Wu, K. C., Yang, T., Yu, B., Zeller, Geralyn P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., Zuckerbrot, M., Center for Neutrino Physics, Physics, 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, V. D., Bolton, T., Bugel, L., Callahan, C., Camilleri, Leslie, Caratelli, D., Carls, B., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Chappa, S., Chen, H., Chen, K., Chi, C. Y., Chiu, C. S., Church, E., Cianci, D., Collin, G. H., Conrad, Janet M., Convery, M., Cornele, J., Cowan, P., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., 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, B. T., Foreman, W., Furmanski, A. P., Genty, V., Geynisman, M., Goeldi, D., Goff, B., Golapinni, 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, Glenn A., Huffman, D., Ignarra, C. M., James, C., James, E., Jan de Vries, J., Jaskierny, W., Jen, C. M., Jiang, L., Johnson, B., Johnson, M., Johnson, R. A., Jones, B. J. P., Joshi, J., Jostlein, H., Kaleko, D., Kalousis, L. N., Karagiorgi, Georgia S., Katori, T., Kellogg, P., Ketchum, W., Kilmer, J., King, B., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Klein, E., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Krull, R., Kubinski, R., Lange, G., Lanni, F., Lathrop, A., Laube, A., Leeg, W. M., Li, Y., Lissauer, D., Lister, A., Littlejohn, B. R., Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Lukhanin, G., Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Mahler, G., Majoros, I., Makowiecki, D., Marchionni, A., Mariani, Camillo, Markley, D., Marshall, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., McDonald, K. T., McKee, D., McLean, A., Mead, J., Meddage, V., Miceli, T., Mills, G. B., Miner, W., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moore, C. D., Moss, Z., Mousseau, J., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Norris, B., Norton, N., Nowak, J., O'Boyle, M., Olszanowski, T., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Pavlovic, Z., Pelkey, R., Phipps, M., Pordes, S., Porzio, D., Pulliam, G., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Rameika, R., Rebel, B., Rechenmacher, R., Rescia, S., Rochester, L., von Rohr, C. R., Ruga, A., Russell, B., Sanders, R., Sands, W. R., Sarychev, M., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Scott, R., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, Marjorie Hansen, Shoun, M., Sinclair, J., Sippach, W., Smidt, T., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Solano-Gonzalez, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Sondericker, J., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, Joshua, St John, J., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Szelc, A. M., Taheri, K., Tagg, N., Tatum, K., Teng, J., Terao, K., Thomson, M., Thorn, C., Tiliman, J., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. T., Tufanli, S., Usher, T., Utes, M., Van de Water, R. G., Vendetta, C., Vergani, S., Voirin, E., Voirin, J., Viren, B., Watkins, P., Weber, M., Wester, T., Weston, J., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Woodruff, K., Wu, K. C., Yang, T., Yu, B., Zeller, Geralyn P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., and Zuckerbrot, M.

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

32. High-performance Generic Neutrino Detection in a LArTPC near the Earth's Surface with the MicroBooNE Detector

Author

Abratenko, P., Alrashed, M., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Ohana Benevides Rodrigues, 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., Devitt, D., Diurba, R., Domine, L., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Evans, J. J., 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., Huang, E. -C, Itay, R., James, C., Jan Vries, J., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. -J, Kamp, N., Kaneshige, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lazur, R., Lepetic, I., Li, K., Li, Y., Littlejohn, B. R., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martin-Albo, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., Mcconkey, N., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., 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., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Paudel, A., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I. D., Porzio, D., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rodriguez Rondon, J., Rogers, H. E., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., 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., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., 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., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T, Tufanli, S., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Pontseele, W., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

33. Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs I. Algorithm Description and Quantitative Evaluation with MicroBooNE Simulation

Author

Adams, C., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Auger, M., Bagby, L., 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., 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., 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., Jennifer Raaf, Radeka, V., 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., John, J. St, Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thomson, M., Thorn, C., 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., Yu, B., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

34. Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs II. Data/Simulation Comparison and Performance in MicroBooNE

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., 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-Anadón, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Diaz, A., Dolce, M., 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., Radeka, V., 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., Yu, B., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

35. 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

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

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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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37. Search for Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current Δ Radiative Decay in MicroBooNE and a First Test of the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess under a Single-Photon Hypothesis.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Arellano L, 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, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, 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, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, 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, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Murrells R, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nebot-Guinot M, Neely RK, Newmark DA, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Patel N, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report results from a search for neutrino-induced neutral current (NC) resonant Δ(1232) baryon production followed by Δ radiative decay, with a ⟨0.8⟩  GeV neutrino beam. Data corresponding to MicroBooNE's first three years of operations (6.80×10^{20} protons on target) are used to select single-photon events with one or zero protons and without charged leptons in the final state (1γ1p and 1γ0p, respectively). The background is constrained via an in situ high-purity measurement of NC π^{0} events, made possible via dedicated 2γ1p and 2γ0p selections. A total of 16 and 153 events are observed for the 1γ1p and 1γ0p selections, respectively, compared to a constrained background prediction of 20.5±3.65(syst) and 145.1±13.8(syst) events. The data lead to a bound on an anomalous enhancement of the normalization of NC Δ radiative decay of less than 2.3 times the predicted nominal rate for this process at the 90% confidence level (C.L.). The measurement disfavors a candidate photon interpretation of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess as a factor of 3.18 times the nominal NC Δ radiative decay rate at the 94.8% C.L., in favor of the nominal prediction, and represents a greater than 50-fold improvement over the world's best limit on single-photon production in NC interactions in the sub-GeV neutrino energy range.

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2022
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38. Search for a Higgs Portal Scalar Decaying to Electron-Positron Pairs in the MicroBooNE Detector.

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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, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, 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, 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, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Neely RK, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rogers HE, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Siegel H, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tagg N, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a search for the decays of a neutral scalar boson produced by kaons decaying at rest, in the context of the Higgs portal model, using the MicroBooNE detector. We analyze data triggered in time with the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam spill, with an exposure of 1.93×10^{20} protons on target. We look for monoenergetic scalars that come from the direction of the NuMI hadron absorber, at a distance of 100 m from the detector, and decay to electron-positron pairs. We observe one candidate event, with a standard model background prediction of 1.9±0.8. We set an upper limit on the scalar-Higgs mixing angle of θ<(3.3-4.6)×10^{-4} at the 95% confidence level for scalar boson masses in the range (100-200)  MeV/c^{2}. We exclude, at the 95% confidence level, the remaining model parameters required to explain the central value of a possible excess of K&#95;{L}^{0}→π^{0}νν[over ¯] decays reported by the KOTO collaboration. We also provide a model-independent limit on a new boson X produced in K→πX decays and decaying to e^{+}e^{-}.

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2021
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