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1. Data-driven model validation for neutrino-nucleus cross section measurements

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnard, A., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bateman, J., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fang, C., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Handley, M. D., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Lane, N., Li, J. -Y., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, L., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mahmud, T., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mellet, L., Mendez, J., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nguyen, C., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pletcher, K., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Safa, I., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Trettin, A., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Wang, J., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Neutrino-nucleus cross section measurements are needed to improve interaction modeling to meet the precision needs of neutrino experiments in efforts to measure oscillation parameters and search for physics beyond the Standard Model. We review the difficulties associated with modeling neutrino-nucleus interactions that lead to a dependence on event generators in oscillation analyses and cross section measurements alike. We then describe data-driven model validation techniques intended to address this model dependence. The method relies on utilizing various goodness-of-fit tests and the correlations between different observables and channels to probe the model for defects in the phase space relevant for the desired analysis. These techniques shed light on relevant mis-modeling, allowing it to be detected before it begins to bias the cross section results. We compare more commonly used model validation methods which directly validate the model against alternative ones to these data-driven techniques and show their efficacy with fake data studies. These studies demonstrate that employing data-driven model validation in cross section measurements represents a reliable strategy to produce robust results that will stimulate the desired improvements to interaction modeling.
Published: 2024

2. Demonstration of new MeV-scale capabilities in large neutrino LArTPCs using ambient radiogenic and cosmogenic activity in MicroBooNE

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnard, A., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bateman, J., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fang, C., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Handley, M. D., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Lane, N., Li, J. -Y., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, L., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mahmud, T., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mellet, L., Mendez, J., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nguyen, C., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pletcher, K., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Safa, I., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Trettin, A., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Wang, J., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Large neutrino liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiments can broaden their physics reach by reconstructing and interpreting MeV-scale energy depositions, or blips, present in their data. We demonstrate new calorimetric and particle discrimination capabilities at the MeV energy scale using reconstructed blips in data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC at Fermilab. We observe a concentration of low energy ($<$3 MeV) blips around fiberglass mechanical support struts along the TPC edges with energy spectrum features consistent with the Compton edge of 2.614 MeV $^{208}$Tl decay $\gamma$ rays. These features are used to verify proper calibration of electron energy scales in MicroBooNE's data to few percent precision and to measure the specific activity of $^{208}$Tl in the fiberglass composing these struts, $(11.7 \pm 0.2 ~\text{(stat)} \pm 2.8~\text{(syst)})~\text{Bq/kg}$. Cosmogenically-produced blips above 3 MeV in reconstructed energy are used to showcase the ability of large LArTPCs to distinguish between low-energy proton and electron energy depositions. An enriched sample of low-energy protons selected using this new particle discrimination technique is found to be smaller in data than in dedicated CORSIKA cosmic ray simulations, suggesting either incorrect CORSIKA modeling of incident cosmic fluxes or particle transport modeling issues in Geant4., Comment: 19 pages, 15 figures total including the supplementary material section, 1 table. CC BY license
Published: 2024

3. Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnard, A., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bateman, J., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Handley, M. D., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lane, N., Li, J. -Y., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mendez, J., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nguyen, C., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pletcher, K., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Safa, I., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Trettin, A., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Wang, J., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A significant challenge in measurements of neutrino oscillations is reconstructing the incoming neutrino energies. While modern fully-active tracking calorimeters such as liquid argon time projection chambers in principle allow the measurement of all final state particles above some detection threshold, undetected neutrons remain a considerable source of missing energy with little to no data constraining their production rates and kinematics. We present the first demonstration of tagging neutrino-induced neutrons in liquid argon time projection chambers using secondary protons emitted from neutron-argon interactions in the MicroBooNE detector. We describe the method developed to identify neutrino-induced neutrons and demonstrate its performance using neutrons produced in muon-neutrino charged current interactions. The method is validated using a small subset of MicroBooNE's total dataset. The selection yields a sample with $60\%$ of selected tracks corresponding to neutron-induced secondary protons.
Published: 2024

4. Improving neutrino energy estimation of charged-current interaction events with recurrent neural networks in MicroBooNE

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnard, A., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bateman, J., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lane, N., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mendez, J., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pletcher, K., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Trettin, A., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We present a deep learning-based method for estimating the neutrino energy of charged-current neutrino-argon interactions. We employ a recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture for neutrino energy estimation in the MicroBooNE experiment, utilizing liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detector technology. Traditional energy estimation approaches in LArTPCs, which largely rely on reconstructing and summing visible energies, often experience sizable biases and resolution smearing because of the complex nature of neutrino interactions and the detector response. The estimation of neutrino energy can be improved after considering the kinematics information of reconstructed final-state particles. Utilizing kinematic information of reconstructed particles, the deep learning-based approach shows improved resolution and reduced bias for the muon neutrino Monte Carlo simulation sample compared to the traditional approach. In order to address the common concern about the effectiveness of this method on experimental data, the RNN-based energy estimator is further examined and validated with dedicated data-simulation consistency tests using MicroBooNE data. We also assess its potential impact on a neutrino oscillation study after accounting for all statistical and systematic uncertainties and show that it enhances physics sensitivity. This method has good potential to improve the performance of other physics analyses.
Published: 2024

5. Scintillation Light in SBND: Simulation, Reconstruction, and Expected Performance of the Photon Detection System

Author: SBND Collaboration, Abratenko, P., Acciarri, R., Adams, C., Aliaga-Soplin, L., Alterkait, O., Alvarez-Garrote, R., Andreopoulos, C., Antonakis, A., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Badgett, W., Balasubramanian, S., Basque, V., Beever, A., Behera, B., Belchior, E., Betancourt, M., Bhat, A., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bogenschuetz, J., Brailsford, D., Brandt, A., Brickner, S., Bueno, A., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Carber, D., Carlson, B., Carneiro, M., Castillo, R., Cavanna, F., Chen, H., Chung, S., Cicala, M. F., Coackley, R., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Cuesta, C., Dalager, O., Darby, R., Del Tutto, M., Di Benedetto, V., Djurcic, Z., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Ezeribe, A., Fan, C., Filkins, A., Fleming, B., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furic, I., Furmanski, A., Gao, S., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gil-Botella, I., Gollapinni, S., Green, P., Griffith, W. C., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hamer, A., Hamilton, P., Hernandez-Morquecho, M., Hilgenberg, C., Howard, B., Imani, Z., James, C., Jones, R. S., Jung, M., Junk, T., Kalra, D., Karagiorgi, G., Kelly, K., Ketchum, W., King, M., Klein, J., Kotsiopoulou, L., Kroupová, T., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Larkin, J., Lay, H., LaZur, R., Li, J. -Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Machado, A., Machado, P., Mariani, C., Marinho, F., Mastbaum, A., Mavrokoridis, K., McConkey, N., McCusker, B., Meddage, V., Mendez, D., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moura, C. A., Mulleriababu, S., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nguyen, V. C. L., Nicolas-Arnaldos, F., Nowak, J., Oh, S., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Pandey, V., Papadopoulou, A., Parkinson, H. B., Paton, J., Paulucci, L., Pavlovic, Z., Payne, D., Pelegrina-Gutiérrez, L., Pimentel, V. L., Plows, J., Psihas, F., Putnam, G., Qian, X., Rajagopalan, R., Ratoff, P., Ray, H., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Roda, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Safa, I., Sanchez-Castillo, A., Sanchez-Lucas, P., Schmitz, D. W., Schneider, A., Schukraft, A., Scott, H., Segreto, E., Sensenig, J., Shaevitz, M., Slater, B., Soares-Nunes, M., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Spooner, N. J. C., Stancari, M., Stenico, G. V., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Totani, D., Toups, M., Touramanis, C., Tung, L., Valdiviesso, G. A., Van de Water, R. G., Vázquez-Ramos, A., Wan, L., Weber, M., Wei, H., Wester, T., White, A., Wilkinson, A., Wilson, P., Wongjirad, T., Worcester, E., Worcester, M., Yadav, S., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L., Yu, B., Yu, J., Zamorano, B., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: SBND is the near detector of the Short-Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab. Its location near to the Booster Neutrino Beam source and relatively large mass will allow the study of neutrino interactions on argon with unprecedented statistics. This paper describes the expected performance of the SBND photon detection system, using a simulated sample of beam neutrinos and cosmogenic particles. Its design is a dual readout concept combining a system of 120 photomultiplier tubes, used for triggering, with a system of 192 X-ARAPUCA devices, located behind the anode wire planes. Furthermore, covering the cathode plane with highly-reflective panels coated with a wavelength-shifting compound recovers part of the light emitted towards the cathode, where no optical detectors exist. We show how this new design provides a high light yield and a more uniform detection efficiency, an excellent timing resolution and an independent 3D-position reconstruction using only the scintillation light. Finally, the whole reconstruction chain is applied to recover the temporal structure of the beam spill, which is resolved with a resolution on the order of nanoseconds., Comment: 21 pages, 17 figures
Published: 2024
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6. First double-differential cross section measurement of neutral-current $\pi^0$ production in neutrino-argon scattering in the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnard, A., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bateman, J., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Handley, M., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lane, N., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mendez, J., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pletcher, K., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Trettin, A., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Wang, J., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the first double-differential cross section measurement of neutral-current neutral pion (NC$\pi^0$) production in neutrino-argon scattering, as well as single-differential measurements of the same channel in terms of final states with and without protons. The kinematic variables of interest for these measurements are the $\pi^0$ momentum and the $\pi^0$ scattering angle with respect to the neutrino beam. A total of 4971 candidate NC$\pi^0$ events fully-contained within the MicroBooNE detector are selected using data collected at a mean neutrino energy of $\sim 0.8$~GeV from $6.4\times10^{20}$ protons on target from the Booster Neutrino Beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. After extensive data-driven model validation to ensure unbiased unfolding, the Wiener-SVD method is used to extract nominal flux-averaged cross sections. The results are compared to predictions from commonly used neutrino event generators, which tend to overpredict the measured NC$\pi^0$ cross section, especially in the 0.2-0.5~GeV/c $\pi^0$ momentum range and at forward scattering angles. Events with at least one proton present in the final state are also underestimated. This data will help improve the modeling of NC$\pi^0$ production, which represents a major background in measurements of charge-parity violation in the neutrino sector and in searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model.
Published: 2024

7. Measurement of the differential cross section for neutral pion production in charged-current muon neutrino interactions on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lane, N., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mendez, J., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pletcher, K., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Trettin, A., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We present a measurement of neutral pion production in charged-current interactions using data recorded with the MicroBooNE detector exposed to Fermilab's booster neutrino beam. The signal comprises one muon, one neutral pion, any number of nucleons, and no charged pions. Studying neutral pion production in the MicroBooNE detector provides an opportunity to better understand neutrino-argon interactions, and is crucial for future accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. Using a dataset corresponding to $6.86 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target, we present single-differential cross sections in muon and neutral pion momenta, scattering angles with respect to the beam for the outgoing muon and neutral pion, as well as the opening angle between the muon and neutral pion. Data extracted cross sections are compared to generator predictions. We report good agreement between the data and the models for scattering angles, except for an over-prediction by generators at muon forward angles. Similarly, the agreement between data and the models as a function of momentum is good, except for an underprediction by generators in the medium momentum ranges, $200-400$ MeV for muons and $100-200$ MeV for pions.
Published: 2024

8. Measurement of double-differential cross sections for mesonless charged-current muon neutrino interactions on argon with final-state protons using the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lane, N., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mendez, J., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pletcher, K., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Trettin, A., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Charged-current neutrino interactions with final states containing zero mesons and at least one proton are of high interest for current and future accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. Using the Booster Neutrino Beam and the MicroBooNE detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, we have obtained the first double-differential cross section measurements of this channel for muon neutrino scattering on an argon target with a proton momentum threshold of 0.25 GeV/c. We also report a flux-averaged total cross section of $\sigma = (11.8 \pm 1.2) \times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$ / Ar and several single-differential measurements which extend and improve upon previous results. Statistical and systematic uncertainties are quantified with a full treatment of correlations across 359 kinematic bins, including correlations between distributions describing different observables. The resulting data set provides the most detailed information obtained to date for testing models of mesonless neutrino-argon scattering., Comment: 83 pages, 67 figures (including supplemental material). For v2, added oversized files in extended data release
Published: 2024

9. First simultaneous measurement of differential muon-neutrino charged-current cross sections on argon for final states with and without protons using MicroBooNE data

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the first double-differential neutrino-argon cross section measurement made simultaneously for final states with and without protons for the inclusive muon neutrino charged-current interaction channel. The proton kinematics of this channel are further explored with a differential cross section measurement as a function of the leading proton's kinetic energy that extends across the detection threshold. These measurements utilize data collected using the MicroBooNE detector from 6.4$\times10^{20}$ protons on target from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam with a mean neutrino energy of $\sim$0.8 GeV. Extensive data-driven model validation utilizing the conditional constraint formalism is employed. This motivates enlarging the uncertainties with an empirical reweighting approach to minimize the possibility of extracting biased cross section results. The extracted nominal flux-averaged cross sections are compared to widely used event generator predictions revealing severe mismodeling of final states without protons for muon neutrino charged-current interactions, possibly from insufficient treatment of final state interactions. These measurements provide a wealth of new information useful for improving event generators which will enhance the sensitivity of precision measurements in neutrino experiments.
Published: 2024
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10. Inclusive cross section measurements in final states with and without protons for charged-current $\nu_\mu$-Ar scattering in MicroBooNE

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Jimenez, A. Pellot, Piasetzky, E., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A detailed understanding of inclusive muon neutrino charged-current interactions on argon is crucial to the study of neutrino oscillations in current and future experiments using liquid argon time projection chambers. To that end, we report a comprehensive set of differential cross section measurements for this channel that simultaneously probe the leptonic and hadronic systems by dividing the channel into final states with and without protons. Measurements of the proton kinematics and proton multiplicity of the final state are also presented. For these measurements, we utilize data collected with the MicroBooNE detector from 6.4$\times10^{20}$ protons on target from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam at a mean neutrino energy of approximately 0.8 GeV. We present in detail the cross section extraction procedure, including the unfolding, and model validation that uses data to model comparisons and the conditional constraint formalism to detect mismodeling that may introduce biases to extracted cross sections that are larger than their uncertainties. The validation exposes insufficiencies in the overall model, motivating the inclusion of an additional data-driven reweighting systematic to ensure the accuracy of the unfolding. The extracted results are compared to a number of event generators and their performance is discussed with a focus on the regions of phase-space that indicate the greatest need for modeling improvements.
Published: 2024
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11. First search for dark-trident processes using the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a first search for dark-trident scattering in a neutrino beam using a data set corresponding to $7.2 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target taken with the MicroBooNE detector at Fermilab. Proton interactions in the neutrino target at the Main Injector produce $\pi^0$ and $\eta$ mesons, which could decay into dark-matter (DM) particles mediated via a dark photon $A^\prime$. A convolutional neural network is trained to identify interactions of the DM particles in the liquid-argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) exploiting its image-like reconstruction capability. In the absence of a DM signal, we provide limits at the $90\%$ confidence level on the squared kinematic mixing parameter $\varepsilon^2$ as a function of the dark-photon mass in the range $10\le M_{A^\prime}\le 400$ MeV. The limits cover previously unconstrained parameter space for the production of fermion or scalar DM particles $\chi$ for two benchmark models with mass ratios $M_{\chi}/M_{A^\prime}=0.6$ and $2$ and for dark fine-structure constants $0.1\le\alpha_D\le 1$.
Published: 2023

12. Search for heavy neutral leptons in electron-positron and neutral-pion final states with the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We present the first search for heavy neutral leptons (HNL) decaying into $\nu e^+e^-$ or $\nu\pi^0$ final states in a liquid-argon time projection chamber using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector. The data were recorded synchronously with the NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab's Main Injector corresponding to a total exposure of $7.01 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target. We set upper limits at the $90\%$ confidence level on the mixing parameter $\lvert U_{\mu 4}\rvert^2$ in the mass ranges $10\le m_{\rm HNL}\le 150$ MeV for the $\nu e^+e^-$ channel and $150\le m_{\rm HNL}\le 245$ MeV for the $\nu\pi^0$ channel, assuming $\lvert U_{e 4}\rvert^2 = \lvert U_{\tau 4}\rvert^2 = 0$. These limits represent the most stringent constraints in the mass range $35
Published: 2023

13. Measurement of nuclear effects in neutrino-argon interactions using generalized kinematic imbalance variables with the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a set of new generalized kinematic imbalance variables that can be measured in neutrino scattering. These variables extend previous measurements of kinematic imbalance on the transverse plane, and are more sensitive to modeling of nuclear effects. We demonstrate the enhanced power of these variables using simulation, and then use the MicroBooNE detector to measure them for the first time. We report flux-integrated single- and double-differential measurements of charged-current muon neutrino scattering on argon using a topolgy with one muon and one proton in the final state as a function of these novel kinematic imbalance variables. These measurements allow us to demonstrate that the treatment of charged current quasielastic interactions in GENIE version 2 is inadequate to describe data. Further, they reveal tensions with more modern generator predictions particularly in regions of phase space where final state interactions are important.
Published: 2023

14. Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

Author: Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnard, A., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bateman, J., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Brunetti, M. B., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chappell, A., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Foreman, W., Fleming, B. T., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Gao, F., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Handley, M. D., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Ismail, M. S., James, C., Ji, X., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y.-J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lane, N., Li, J.-Y., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., Mawby, I., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mendez, J., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mogan, A., Mohayai, T., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Mulleriababu, S., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nguyen, C., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H. B., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Pletcher, K., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Safa, I., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Trettin, A., Tsai, Y.-T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Wang, J., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Published: 2024
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15. First application of a liquid argon time projection chamber for the search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transitions and annihilation in $^{40}$Ar using the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: We present a novel methodology to search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transition ($n\rightarrow\bar{n}$) followed by $\bar{n}$-nucleon annihilation within an $^{40}$Ar nucleus, using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detector. A discovery of $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ transition or a new best limit on the lifetime of this process would either constitute physics beyond the Standard Model or greatly constrain theories of baryogenesis, respectively. The approach presented in this paper makes use of deep learning methods to select $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ events based on their unique features and differentiate them from cosmogenic backgrounds. The achieved signal and background efficiencies are (70.22$\pm$6.04)\% and (0.0020$\pm$0.0003)\%, respectively. A demonstration of a search is performed with a data set corresponding to an exposure of $3.32 \times10^{26}\,$neutron-years, and where the background rate is constrained through direct measurement, assuming the presence of a negligible signal. With this approach, no excess of events over the background prediction is observed, setting a demonstrative lower bound on the $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ lifetime in $^{40}$Ar of $\tau_{\textrm{m}} \gtrsim 1.1\times10^{26}\,$years, and on the free $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ transition time of $\tau_{\textrm{\nnbar}} \gtrsim 2.6\times10^{5}\,$s, each at the $90\%$ confidence level. This analysis represents a first-ever proof-of-principle demonstration of the ability to search for this rare process in LArTPCs with high efficiency and low background., Comment: 22 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables
Published: 2023

16. Measurement of three-dimensional inclusive muon-neutrino charged-current cross sections on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE Collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We report the measurement of the differential cross section $d^{2}\sigma (E_{\nu})/ d\cos(\theta_{\mu}) dP_{\mu}$ for inclusive muon-neutrino charged-current scattering on argon. This measurement utilizes data from 6.4$\times10^{20}$ protons on target of exposure collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located along the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam with a mean neutrino energy of approximately 0.8~GeV. The mapping from reconstructed kinematics to truth quantities, particularly from reconstructed to true neutrino energy, is validated within uncertainties by comparing the distribution of reconstructed hadronic energy in data to that of the model prediction in different muon scattering angle bins after applying a conditional constraint from the muon momentum distribution in data. The success of this validation gives confidence that the missing energy in the MicroBooNE detector is well-modeled within uncertainties in simulation, enabling the unfolding to a three-dimensional measurement over muon momentum, muon scattering angle, and neutrino energy. The unfolded measurement covers an extensive phase space, providing a wealth of information useful for future liquid argon time projection chamber experiments measuring neutrino oscillations. Comparisons against a number of commonly used model predictions are included and their performance in different parts of the available phase-space is discussed.
Published: 2023

17. Measurement of ambient radon progeny decay rates and energy spectra in liquid argon using the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We report measurements of radon progeny in liquid argon within the MicroBooNE time projection chamber (LArTPC). The presence of specific radon daughters in MicroBooNE's 85 metric tons of active liquid argon bulk is probed with newly developed charge-based low-energy reconstruction tools and analysis techniques to detect correlated $^{214}$Bi-$^{214}$Po radioactive decays. Special datasets taken during periods of active radon doping enable new demonstrations of the calorimetric capabilities of single-phase neutrino LArTPCs for $\beta$ and $\alpha$ particles with electron-equivalent energies ranging from 0.1 to 3.0 MeV. By applying $^{214}$Bi-$^{214}$Po detection algorithms to data recorded over a 46-day period, no statistically significant presence of radioactive $^{214}$Bi is detected, and a limit on the activity is placed at $<0.35$ mBq/kg at the 95% confidence level. This bulk $^{214}$Bi radiopurity limit -- the first ever reported for a liquid argon detector incorporating liquid-phase purification -- is then further discussed in relation to the targeted upper limit of 1 mBq/kg on bulk $^{222}$Rn activity for the DUNE neutrino detector.
Published: 2023
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18. First measurement of $\eta$ production in neutrino interactions on argon with MicroBooNE

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We present a measurement of $\eta$ production from neutrino interactions on argon with the MicroBooNE detector. The modeling of resonant neutrino interactions on argon is a critical aspect of the neutrino oscillation physics program being carried out by the DUNE and Short Baseline Neutrino programs. $\eta$ production in neutrino interactions provides a powerful new probe of resonant interactions, complementary to pion channels, and is particularly suited to the study of higher-order resonances beyond the $\Delta(1232)$. We measure a flux-integrated cross section for neutrino-induced $\eta$ production on argon of $3.22 \pm 0.84 \; \textrm{(stat.)} \pm 0.86 \; \textrm{(syst.)}$ $10^{-41}{\textrm{cm}}^{2}$/nucleon. By demonstrating the successful reconstruction of the two photons resulting from $\eta$ production, this analysis enables a novel calibration technique for electromagnetic showers in GeV accelerator neutrino experiments.
Published: 2023
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19. First demonstration of $\mathcal{O}(1\,\text{ns})$ timing resolution in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment located in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab, which collected data from 2015 to 2021. MicroBooNE's liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is accompanied by a photon detection system consisting of 32 photomultiplier tubes used to measure the argon scintillation light and determine the timing of neutrino interactions. Analysis techniques combining light signals and reconstructed tracks are applied to achieve a neutrino interaction time resolution of $\mathcal{O}(1\,\text{ns})$. The result obtained allows MicroBooNE to access the ns neutrino pulse structure of the BNB for the first time. The timing resolution achieved will enable significant enhancement of cosmic background rejection for all neutrino analyses. Furthermore, the ns timing resolution opens new avenues to search for long-lived-particles such as heavy neutral leptons in MicroBooNE, as well as in future large LArTPC experiments, namely the SBN program and DUNE.
Published: 2023

20. Glucose estimation in the salivary secretion of diabetes mellitus patients

Author: Abikshyeet P, Ramesh V, and Oza N
Subjects: Specialties of internal medicine, RC581-951
Abstract: Abikshyeet Panda,1 Ramesh Venkatapathy,2 Nirima Oza21Department of Oral Pathology, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 2Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Puducherry, IndiaAim: Saliva is one of the most abundant secretions in the human body and its collection is easy and noninvasive. The aim of this study was to find a medium that can be used to diagnose and monitor diabetes. In this, saliva could play a major role. To substantiate the role of saliva as a diagnostic tool, we compared saliva samples with blood glucose and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in healthy and diabetic subjects.Materials and methods: Included in the study were 106 patients, newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus and 15 healthy control subjects. The patients and control subjects were asked to come to the clinic in the morning, after an 8-hour fast. At that time, 5 mL of venous blood was collected, 2 mL of which was collected in an ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)-containing blood collection tube and sent for HbA1c estimation. Unstimulated saliva was collected from both groups as well. The saliva and sera from the blood samples were subjected to glucose estimation.Results: The correlation coefficient between serum glucose and salivary glucose in the control group was calculated and the r value was found to be 0.5216, which was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The correlation coefficient between serum glucose and salivary glucose in the patient group was also calculated and the r value was found to be 0.7686, which was highly significant (P < 0.01). Finally, the correlation coefficient between HbA1c level and salivary glucose in the patient group was calculated and the r value was found to be 0.5662, which was also highly significant (P < 0.01).Keywords: saliva, salivary glucose, serum glucose, insulin, hyperglycemia
Published: 2012

21. First measurement of quasi-elastic $\Lambda$ baryon production in muon anti-neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Aldana, D. Andrade, Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present the first measurement of the cross section of Cabibbo-suppressed $\Lambda$ baryon production, using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector when exposed to the neutrinos from the Main Injector beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data analyzed correspond to $2.2 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target of neutrino mode running and $4.9 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target of anti-neutrino mode running. An automated selection is combined with hand scanning, with the former identifying five candidate $\Lambda$ production events when the signal was unblinded, consistent with the GENIE prediction of $5.3 \pm 1.1$ events. Several scanners were employed, selecting between three and five events, compared with a prediction from a blinded Monte Carlo simulation study of $3.7 \pm 1.0$ events. Restricting the phase space to only include $\Lambda$ baryons that decay above MicroBooNE's detection thresholds, we obtain a flux averaged cross section of $2.0^{+2.2}_{-1.7} \times 10^{-40}$ cm$^2/$Ar, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are combined.
Published: 2022

22. First Measurement of Differential Cross Sections for Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions on Argon with a Two-proton Final State in the MicroBooNE Detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Aldana, D. Andrade, Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, 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., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present the first measurement of differential cross sections for charged-current muon neutrino interactions on argon with one muon, two protons, and no pions in the final state. Such interactions leave the target nucleus in a two-particle two-hole state; these states are of great interest, but currently there is limited information about their production in neutrino-nucleus interactions. Detailed investigations of the production of two-particle two-hole states are vital to support upcoming experiments exploring the nature of the neutrino, and the development of the liquid-argon time-projection-chamber has made possible the isolation of such final states. The opening angle between the two protons, the angle between the total proton momentum and the muon, and the total transverse momentum of the final state system are sensitive to the underlying physics processes as embodied in a variety of models. Realistic initial-state momentum distributions are shown to be important in reproducing the data., Comment: Resubmitted to PRL in response to reviewer comments
Published: 2022

23. First constraints on light sterile neutrino oscillations from combined appearance and disappearance searches with the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Aldana, D. Andrade, Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, 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., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a search for eV-scale sterile neutrino oscillations in the MicroBooNE liquid argon detector, simultaneously considering all possible appearance and disappearance effects within the $3+1$ active-to-sterile neutrino oscillation framework. We analyze the neutrino candidate events for the recent measurements of charged-current $\nu_e$ and $\nu_{\mu}$ interactions in the MicroBooNE detector, using data corresponding to an exposure of 6.37$\times$10$^{20}$ protons on target from the Fermilab booster neutrino beam. We observe no evidence of light sterile neutrino oscillations and derive exclusion contours at the $95\%$ confidence level in the plane of the mass-squared splitting $\Delta m^2_{41}$ and the sterile neutrino mixing angles $\theta_{\mu e}$ and $\theta_{ee}$, excluding part of the parameter space allowed by experimental anomalies. Cancellation of $\nu_e$ appearance and $\nu_e$ disappearance effects due to the full $3+1$ treatment of the analysis leads to a degeneracy when determining the oscillation parameters, which is discussed in this paper and will be addressed by future analyses., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures; supplemental: 6 pages, 8 figures
Published: 2022
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24. Differential cross section measurement of charged current $\nu_{e}$ interactions without final-state pions in MicroBooNE

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, 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., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Newmark, D. A., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: In this letter we present the first measurements of an exclusive electron neutrino cross section with the MicroBooNE experiment using data from the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab. These measurements are made for a selection of charged-current electron neutrinos without final-state pions. Differential cross sections are extracted in energy and angle with respect to the beam for the electron and the leading proton. The differential cross section as a function of proton energy is measured using events with protons both above and below the visibility threshold. This is done by including a separate selection of electron neutrino events without reconstructed proton candidates in addition to those with proton candidates. Results are compared to the predictions from several modern generators, and we find the data agrees well with these models. The data shows best agreement, as quantified by $p$-value, with the generators that predict a lower overall cross section, such as GENIE v3 and NuWro.
Published: 2022

25. Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons and Higgs portal scalars decaying in the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, 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., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. 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., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Newmark, D. A., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rice, L. C. J., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a search for long-lived Higgs portal scalars (HPS) and heavy neutral leptons (HNL) decaying in the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber. The measurement is performed using data collected synchronously with the NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab's Main Injector with a total exposure corresponding to $7.01 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target. We set upper limits at the $90\%$ confidence level on the mixing parameter $\lvert U_{\mu 4}\rvert^2$ ranging from $\lvert U_{\mu 4}\rvert^2<12.9\times 10^{-8}$ for Majorana HNLs with a mass of $m_{\rm HNL}=246$ MeV to $\lvert U_{\mu 4}\rvert^2<0.92 \times 10^{-8}$ for $m_{\rm HNL}=385$ MeV, assuming $\lvert U_{e 4}\rvert^2 = \lvert U_{\tau 4}\rvert^2 = 0$ and HNL decays into $\mu^\pm\pi^\mp$ pairs. These limits on $\lvert U_{\mu 4}\rvert^2$ represent an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity compared to the previous MicroBooNE result. We also constrain the scalar-Higgs mixing angle $\theta$ by searching for HPS decays into $\mu^+\mu^-$ final states, excluding a contour in the parameter space with lower bounds of $\theta^2<31.3 \times 10^{-9}$ for $m_{\rm HPS}=212$ GeV and $\theta^2<1.09 \times 10^{-9}$ for $m_{\rm HPS}=275$ GeV. These are the first constraints on the scalar-Higgs mixing angle $\theta$ from a dedicated experimental search in this mass range., Comment: This paper is dedicated to the memory of Salvatore Davide Porzio. This is the journal accepted version with only minor presentational changes compared to preprint
Published: 2022
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26. Measurement of neutral current single $\pi^0$ production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Cianci, D., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, 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., Finnerud, O. G., Aguirre, G. A. Fiorentini, 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. 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., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Neely, R. K., Newmark, D. A., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Paudel, A., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rice, L. C. J., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, 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., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., 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., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the first measurement of $\pi^0$ production in neutral current (NC) interactions on argon with average neutrino energy of $\lesssim1$~GeV. We use data from the MicroBooNE detector's 85-tonne active volume liquid argon time projection chamber situated in Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam and exposed to $5.89\times10^{20}$ protons on target for this measurement. Measurements of NC $\pi^0$ events are reported for two exclusive event topologies without charged pions. Those include a topology with two photons from the decay of the $\pi^0$ and one proton and a topology with two photons and zero protons. Flux-averaged cross-sections for each exclusive topology and for their semi-inclusive combination are extracted (efficiency-correcting for two-plus proton final states), and the results are compared to predictions from the \textsc{genie}, \textsc{neut}, and \textsc{NuWro} neutrino event generators. We measure cross sections of $1.243\pm0.185$ (syst) $\pm0.076$ (stat), $0.444\pm0.098\pm0.047$, and $0.624\pm0.131\pm0.075$ $[10^{-38}\textrm{cm}^2/\textrm{Ar}]$ for the semi-inclusive NC$\pi^0$, exclusive NC$\pi^0$+1p, and exclusive NC$\pi^0$+0p processes, respectively., Comment: 16 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2022

27. Measurement of triple-differential inclusive muon-neutrino charged-current cross section on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

Author: Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the first measurement of the differential cross section $d^{2}\sigma (E_{\nu})/ d\cos(\theta_{\mu}) dP_{\mu}$ for inclusive muon-neutrino charged-current scattering on argon. This measurement utilizes data from 6.4$\times10^{20}$ protons on target of exposure collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located along the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam with a mean neutrino energy of approximately 0.8~GeV. The mapping from reconstructed kinematics to truth quantities, particularly from reconstructed to true neutrino energy, is validated by comparing the distribution of reconstructed hadronic energy in data to that of the model prediction in different muon scattering angle bins after conditional constraint from the muon momentum distribution in data. The success of this validation gives confidence that the missing energy in the MicroBooNE detector is well-modeled in simulation, enabling the unfolding to a triple-differential measurement over muon momentum, muon scattering angle, and neutrino energy. The unfolded measurement covers an extensive phase space, providing a wealth of information useful for future liquid argon time projection chamber experiments measuring neutrino oscillations. Comparisons against a number of commonly used model predictions are included and their performance in different parts of the available phase-space is discussed.
Published: 2023

28. First demonstration for a LArTPC-based search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transitions and annihilation in $^{40}$Ar using the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel methodology to search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transition ($n\rightarrow\bar{n}$) followed by annihilation within an $^{40}$Ar nucleus, using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detector. A discovery of $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ transition or increased lower limit on the lifetime of this process would either constitute physics beyond the Standard Model or greatly constrain theories of baryogenesis, respectively. The approach presented in this paper makes use of deep learning methods to select $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ events based on their unique features and differentiate them from cosmogenic backgrounds. The achieved signal and background efficiencies are (70$\pm$6)\% and (0.0020$\pm$0.0003)\%, respectively. A demonstration of a search is performed with a data set corresponding to an exposure of $3.32 \times10^{26}\,$neutron-years, and where the background rate is constrained through direct measurement, assuming the presence of a negligible signal. With this approach, no excess of events over the background prediction is observed, setting a demonstrative lower bound on the $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ lifetime in $^{40}$Ar of $\tau_{\textrm m} > 1.1\times10^{26}\,$years, and on the free $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ transition time of $\tau_{\textrm n-\bar{n}} > 2.6\times10^{5}\,$s, each at the $90\%$ confidence level. This analysis represents a first-ever proof-of-principle demonstration of the ability to search for this rare process in LArTPCs with high efficiency and low background., Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables
Published: 2023

29. First demonstration of a liquid argon time projection chamber based search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transitions and annihilation in $^{40}$Ar using the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M. M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Abstract: We present a novel methodology to search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transition ($n\rightarrow\bar{n}$) followed by $\bar{n}$-nucleon annihilation within an $^{40}$Ar nucleus, using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detector. A discovery of $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ transition or a new best limit on the lifetime of this process would either constitute physics beyond the Standard Model or greatly constrain theories of baryogenesis, respectively. The approach presented in this paper makes use of deep learning methods to select $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ events based on their unique features and differentiate them from cosmogenic backgrounds. The achieved signal and background efficiencies are (70.22$\pm$6.04)\% and (0.0020$\pm$0.0003)\%, respectively. A demonstration of a search is performed with a data set corresponding to an exposure of $3.32 \times10^{26}\,$neutron-years, and where the background rate is constrained through direct measurement, assuming the presence of a negligible signal. With this approach, no excess of events over the background prediction is observed, setting a demonstrative lower bound on the $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ lifetime in $^{40}$Ar of $\tau_{\textrm{m}} \gtrsim 1.1\times10^{26}\,$years, and on the free $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ transition time of $\tau_{\textrm{\nnbar}} \gtrsim 2.6\times10^{5}\,$s, each at the $90\%$ confidence level. This analysis represents a first-ever proof-of-principle demonstration of the ability to search for this rare process in LArTPCs with high efficiency and low background., Comment: 22 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables
Published: 2023

30. First Measurement of Quasielastic <math><mi>Λ</mi></math> Baryon Production in Muon Antineutrino Interactions in the MicroBooNE Detector

Author: Abratenko, P., Andrade Aldana, D., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Benevides Rodrigues, O., Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Caro Terrazas, I., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y.J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J.Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mogan, A., Mohayai, T., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Mora Lepin, L., Mousseau, J., Mulleriababu, S., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H. B., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I. D., Pophale, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rodriguez Rondon, J., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Rudolf von Rohr, C., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y.T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Abstract: We present the first measurement of the cross section of Cabibbo-suppressed Λ baryon production, using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector when exposed to the neutrinos from the main injector beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data analyzed correspond to 2.2×1020 protons on target running in neutrino mode, and 4.9×1020 protons on target running in anti-neutrino mode. An automated selection is combined with hand scanning, with the former identifying five candidate Λ production events when the signal was unblinded, consistent with the GENIE prediction of 5.3±1.1 events. Several scanners were employed, selecting between three and five events, compared with a prediction from a blinded Monte Carlo simulation study of 3.7±1.0 events. Restricting the phase space to only include Λ baryons that decay above MicroBooNE’s detection thresholds, we obtain a flux averaged cross section of 2.0−1.7+2.2×10−40 cm2/Ar, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are combined.
Published: 2023

31. Measurement of neutral current single <math><msup><mi>π</mi><mn>0</mn></msup></math> production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

Author: Abratenko, P., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Benevides Rodrigues, O., Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Caro Terrazas, I., 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., Finnerud, O. G., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. 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., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J.Y., 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., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Mora Lepin, L., Mousseau, J., Mulleriababu, S., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Neely, R. K., Newmark, D. A., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H. B., 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., Rudolf von Rohr, C., 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., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y.T., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., 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., and Zhang, C.
Abstract: We report the first measurement of π0 production in neutral current (NC) interactions on argon with average neutrino energy of ≲1 GeV. We use data from the MicroBooNE detector’s 85 metric tons active volume liquid argon time projection chamber situated in Fermilab’s Booster Neutrino Beam and exposed to 5.89×1020 protons on target for this measurement. Measurements of NC π0 events are reported for two exclusive event topologies without charged pions. Those include a topology with two photons from the decay of the π0 and one proton and a topology with two photons and zero protons. Flux-averaged cross sections for each exclusive topology and for their semi-inclusive combination are extracted (efficiency correcting for two-plus proton final states), and the results are compared to predictions from the genie, neut, and nuwro neutrino event generators. We measure cross sections of 1.243±0.185(syst)±0.076(stat), 0.444±0.098±0.047, and 0.624±0.131±0.075 [10−38 cm2/Ar] for the semi-inclusive NCπ0, exclusive NCπ0+1p, and exclusive NCπ0+0p processes, respectively.
Published: 2023

32. First constraints on light sterile neutrino oscillations from combined appearance and disappearance searches with the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Aldana, D. Andrade, Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, 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., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This document was prepared by the MicroBooNE Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. MicroBooNE is supported by the following: the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Offices of High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation; the Royal Society (United Kingdom); and the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship. Additional support for the laser calibration system and cosmic ray tagger was provided by the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Bern, Switzerland. We also acknowledge the contributions of technical and scientific staff to the design, construction, and operation of the MicroBooNE detector as well as the contributions of past collaborators to the development of MicroBooNE analyses, without whom this Letter would not have been possible. For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) public copyright license to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission., We present a search for eV-scale sterile neutrino oscillations in the MicroBooNE liquid argon detector, simultaneously considering all possible appearance and disappearance effects within the 3+1 active-to-sterile neutrino oscillation framework. We analyze the neutrino candidate events for the recent measurements of charged-current νe and νμ interactions in the MicroBooNE detector, using data corresponding to an exposure of 6.37×1020 protons on target from the Fermilab booster neutrino beam. We observe no evidence of light sterile neutrino oscillations and derive exclusion contours at the 95% confidence level in the plane of the mass-squared splitting Δm241 and the sterile neutrino mixing angles θμe and θee, excluding part of the parameter space allowed by experimental anomalies. Cancellation of νe appearance and νe disappearance effects due to the full 3+1 treatment of the analysis leads to a degeneracy when determining the oscillation parameters, which is discussed in this Letter and will be addressed by future analyses., Fermi Research Alliance, LLC DE-AC02-07CH11359, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, UK Research and Innovation, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Royal Society, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Published: 2023
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33. Measurement of ambient radon daughter decay rates and energy spectra in liquid argon using the MicroBooNE detector

Author: MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. Andrade, Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Cao, Y., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Cross, R., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Englezos, P., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Imani, Z., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J. -Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Liu, H., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Martynenko, S., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Micallef, J., Miller, K., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Moudgalya, M., Babu, S. Mulleria, Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Pophale, I., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., von Rohr, C. Rudolph, Safa, I., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of radon daughters in liquid argon within the MicroBooNE time projection chamber (LArTPC). The presence of radon in MicroBooNE's 85 metric tons of active liquid argon bulk is probed with newly developed charge-based low-energy reconstruction tools and analysis techniques to detect correlated $^{214}$Bi-$^{214}$Po radioactive decays. Special datasets taken during periods of active radon doping enable new demonstrations of the calorimetric capabilities of single-phase neutrino LArTPCs for $\beta$ and $\alpha$ particles with electron-equivalent energies ranging from 0.1 to 3.0 MeV. By applying $^{214}$Bi-$^{214}$Po detection algorithms to beam-external physics data recorded over a 46-day period, no statistically significant presence of radon is detected, corresponding to a limit of $
Published: 2023
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34. Differential cross section measurement of charged current <math><msub><mi>ν</mi><mi>e</mi></msub></math> interactions without final-state pions in MicroBooNE

Author: Abratenko, P., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Benevides Rodrigues, O., Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Caro Terrazas, I., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., 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., Finnerud, O. G., Foreman, W., 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., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y.J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J.Y., 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., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mogan, A., Mohayai, T., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Mora Lepin, L., Mousseau, J., Mulleriababu, S., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Newmark, D. A., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H. B., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I. D., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rodriguez Rondon, J., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Rudolf von Rohr, C., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., St. John, J., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y.T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.
Abstract: In this paper we present the first measurements of an exclusive electron neutrino cross section with the MicroBooNE experiment using data from the Booster neutrino beamline at Fermilab. These measurements are made for a selection of charged-current electron neutrinos without final-state pions. Differential cross sections are extracted in energy and angle with respect to the beam for the electron and the leading proton. The differential cross section as a function of proton energy is measured using events with protons both above and below the visibility threshold. This is done by including a separate selection of electron neutrino events without reconstructed proton candidates in addition to those with proton candidates. Results are compared to the predictions from several modern generators, and we find the data agrees well with these models. The data shows best agreement, as quantified by the p-value, with the generators that predict a lower overall cross section, such as GENIE v3 and NuWro.
Published: 2022

35. Deep Transfer Learning on Satellite Imagery Improves Air Quality Estimates in Developing Nations

Author: Yadav, N, Sorek-Hamer, M, Pohle, MV, Asanjan, AA, Sahasrabhojanee, A, Suel, E, Arku, R, Lingenfelter, V, Brauer, M, Ezzati, M, Oza, N, Ganguly, AR, and Medical Research Council (MRC)
Subjects: cs.CV
Abstract: Urban air pollution is a public health challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, LMICs lack adequate air quality (AQ) monitoring infrastructure. A persistent challenge has been our inability to estimate AQ accurately in LMIC cities, which hinders emergency preparedness and risk mitigation. Deep learning-based models that map satellite imagery to AQ can be built for high-income countries (HICs) with adequate ground data. Here we demonstrate that a scalable approach that adapts deep transfer learning on satellite imagery for AQ can extract meaningful estimates and insights in LMIC cities based on spatiotemporal patterns learned in HIC cities. The approach is demonstrated for Accra in Ghana, Africa, with AQ patterns learned from two US cities, specifically Los Angeles and New York.
Published: 2022

36. Predicting air pollution spatial variation with street-level imagery

Author: Suel, E, Sorek-Hamer, M, Moise, I, Von Pohle, M, Sahasrabhojanee, A, Asanjan, A, Deardorff, E, Lingenfelter, V, Oza, N, Ezzati, M, Brauer, M, Medical Research Council (MRC), and Wellcome Trust
Published: 2020

37. Whole-Body Insulin Sensitivity Index Is a Highly Specific Predictive Marker for Virological Response to Peginterferon Plus Ribavirin Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C Patients with Genotype 1b and High Viral Load

Author: Mizuta, T., Kawaguchi, Y., Eguchi, Y., Takahashi, H., Ario, K., Akiyama, T., Oza, N., Otsuka, T., Kuwashiro, T., Yoshimura, T., Hisatomi, A., and Ozaki, I.
Published: 2010
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38. A Novel Algorithmic Diagnostic Approach to Secretory Carcinoma of Salivary Gland

Author: Oza N, Pai T, Gupta R, Shubhada K, Chaturvedi P, Bal M, and Patil A
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Salivary gland, biology, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Histology, medicine.disease, Acinic cell carcinoma, Targeted therapy, Surgical pathology, 03 medical and health sciences, ETV6, 030104 developmental biology, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine.anatomical_structure, Mammaglobin, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, medicine, biology.protein, Immunohistochemistry, business
Abstract: Background: Secretory carcinoma (SC) is a recently recognized tumour of salivary gland with characteristic t (12; 15) (q13; q25) translocation with ETV6-NTRK3 fusion. SC were misdiagnosed as Acinic cell carcinoma (AciCC), especially Papillary cystic variant (PCV) in the past. Primary objective of the study was to devise diagnostic algorithm to distinguish SC from other low grade salivary gland tumors especially AciCC. Methods: Surgical pathology archives was searched for cases diagnosed as PCV-AciCC from 2005 to 2017 and as SC from 2012-2017. The H&E, IHC and FISH results were studied. Results: Parotid and oral cavity were involved in 74.3% and 14.2% cases. HE b) solid pattern showing multivacuolated bubbly cytoplasm; c) follicular pattern with dense colloid like secretions. A diagnostic algorithm was devised. Of 35 cases, upfront diagnosis of SC was offered in 22 cases. 13 Cases of PCV-AciCC were reclassified as SC based on morphology and confirmed by IHC (diffuse co-expression of mammaglobin, S100 and lack of DOG1 positivity) and molecular study. 65.7% cases showed ETV6 translocation by FISH. Conclusion: SC is a new entity, which was misdiagnosed as PCV-AciCC in the past. SC can originate in minor salivary gland. Awareness of morphological indicators and high index of suspicion is necessary for diagnosis. IHC markers further facilitate the diagnosis. The translocation study can thus be limited to cases with unusual histology and planning of targeted therapy in future. A novel diagnostic algorithm is suggested for recognition of this new entity.
Published: 2018
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39. Cholera Toxins: Quantitation of the Frog Skin Reaction and Its Relation to Experimental Enteric Toxicity

Author: Burrows, William, Musteikis, Grazina M., Oza, N. B., and Dutta, N. K.
Published: 1965

40. UP-03.023 Vessel-Sparing Urethroplasty

Author: Patankar, S., primary, Rasal, D., additional, Shah, R., additional, and Oza, N., additional
Published: 2011
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41. UP-02.002 Open Label, Randomized Clinical Trial To Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of “Herbmed Plus” for Ureteral Stent Discomfort Against Tolterodine

Author: Patankar, S., primary, Rasal, D., additional, Shah, R., additional, and Oza, N., additional
Published: 2011
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42. POD-04.05 Comparison Between Plasmakinetic Resection of Prostate and Monopolar TURP: A Prospective Randomized Trial with 5-Year Follow-up

Author: Patankar, S., primary, Rasal, D., additional, Shah, R., additional, and Oza, N., additional
Published: 2011
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43. UP-03.018 Management of Difficult Urethrovaginal Fistula Using Peritoneal Flap: Single Centre Experience

Author: Patankar, S., primary, Rasal, D., additional, Shah, R., additional, and Oza, N., additional
Published: 2011
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44. POD-06.05 Unusual Complications of Laparoscopic Surgery and Lessons Learnt

Author: Patankar, S., primary, Rasal, D., additional, Shah, R., additional, and Oza, N., additional
Published: 2011
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45. Classification of Aeronautics System Health and Safety Documents

Author: Oza, N., primary, Castle, J.P., additional, and Stutz, J., additional
Published: 2009
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46. 992 THE CHANGE IN SERUM AMINOTRANSFERASE LEVEL ACHIEVED BY WEIGHT REDUCTION PREDICTS THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVER STEATOSIS IN PATIENTS WITH NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE

Author: Ishibashi, E., primary, Eguchi, Y., additional, Mizuta, T., additional, Kitajima, Y., additional, Oza, N., additional, Nakashita, S., additional, Matsunobu, A., additional, Takahashi, H., additional, Kawaguchi, Y., additional, Iwakiri, R., additional, Ozaki, I., additional, Eguchi, T., additional, Ono, N., additional, and Fujimoto, K., additional
Published: 2009
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47. 998 SERUM TRIGLYCERIDE LEVEL AS A METABOLIC RISK FACTOR WAS INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH SERUM AMINOTRANSFERASE LEVEL IN NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE PATIENTS WITH CENTRAL OBESITY

Author: Ishibashi, E., primary, Eguchi, Y., additional, Mizuta, T., additional, Kitajima, Y., additional, Oza, N., additional, Nakashita, S., additional, Matsunobu, A., additional, Takahashi, H., additional, Kawaguchi, Y., additional, Ozaki, I., additional, Iwakiri, R., additional, Eguchi, T., additional, Ono, N., additional, and Fujimoto, K., additional
Published: 2009
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48. S2065 Minimal Visceral Fat Accumulation Is a Prerequisite for a Persistent Normal Serum ALT Level in Chronic Hepatitis C Patients

Author: OZA, N, primary, EGUCHI, Y, additional, NAKASHITA, S, additional, ISHIBASHI, E, additional, EGUCHI, T, additional, MATSUNOBU, A, additional, KITAJIMA, Y, additional, KUROKI, S, additional, OZAKI, I, additional, and KAWAGUCHI, Y, additional
Published: 2008
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49. Exploring the Sources of Waste in Kanban Software Development Projects.

Author: Ikonen, M., Kettunen, P., Oza, N., and Abrahamsson, P.
Published: 2010
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50. User Experience and Security in the Cloud -- An Empirical Study in the Finnish Cloud Consortium.

Author: Oza, N., Karppinen, K., and Savola, R.
Published: 2010
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