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1. Detailed Report on the Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm

Author: Aguillard, D. P., Albahri, T., Allspach, D., Anisenkov, A., Badgley, K., Baeßler, S., Bailey, I., Bailey, L., Baranov, V. A., Barlas-Yucel, E., Barrett, T., Barzi, E., Bedeschi, F., Berz, M., Bhattacharya, M., Binney, H. P., Bloom, P., Bono, J., Bottalico, E., Bowcock, T., Braun, S., Bressler, M., Cantatore, G., Carey, R. M., Casey, B. C. K., Cauz, D., Chakraborty, R., Chapelain, A., Chappa, S., Charity, S., Chen, C., Cheng, M., Chislett, R., Chu, Z., Chupp, T. E., Claessens, C., Convery, M. E., Corrodi, S., Cotrozzi, L., Crnkovic, J. D., Dabagov, S., Debevec, P. T., Di Falco, S., Di Sciascio, G., Donati, S., Drendel, B., Driutti, A., Duginov, V. N., Eads, M., Edmonds, A., Esquivel, J., Farooq, M., Fatemi, R., Ferrari, C., Fertl, M., Fienberg, A. T., Fioretti, A., Flay, D., Foster, S. B., Friedsam, H., Froemming, N. S., Gabbanini, C., Gaines, I., Galati, M. D., Ganguly, S., Garcia, A., George, J., Gibbons, L. K., Gioiosa, A., Giovanetti, K. L., Girotti, P., Gohn, W., Goodenough, L., Gorringe, T., Grange, J., Grant, S., Gray, F., Haciomeroglu, S., Halewood-Leagas, T., Hampai, D., Han, F., Hempstead, J., Hertzog, D. W., Hesketh, G., Hess, E., Hibbert, A., Hodge, Z., Hong, K. W., Hong, R., Hu, T., Hu, Y., Iacovacci, M., Incagli, M., Kammel, P., Kargiantoulakis, M., Karuza, M., Kaspar, J., Kawall, D., Kelton, L., Keshavarzi, A., Kessler, D. S., Khaw, K. S., Khechadoorian, Z., Khomutov, N. V., Kiburg, B., Kiburg, M., Kim, O., Kinnaird, N., Kraegeloh, E., Krylov, V. A., Kuchinskiy, N. A., Labe, K. R., LaBounty, J., Lancaster, M., Lee, S., Li, B., Li, D., Li, L., Logashenko, I., Campos, A. Lorente, Lu, Z., Lucà, A., Lukicov, G., Lusiani, A., Lyon, A. L., MacCoy, B., Madrak, R., Makino, K., Mastroianni, S., Miller, J. P., Miozzi, S., Mitra, B., Morgan, J. P., Morse, W. M., Mott, J., Nath, A., Ng, J. K., Nguyen, H., Oksuzian, Y., Omarov, Z., Osofsky, R., Park, S., Pauletta, G., Piacentino, G. M., Pilato, R. N., Pitts, K. T., Plaster, B., Počanić, D., Pohlman, N., Polly, C. C., Price, J., Quinn, B., Qureshi, M. U. H., Ramachandran, S., Ramberg, E., Reimann, R., Roberts, B. L., Rubin, D. L., Sakurai, M., Santi, L., Schlesier, C., Schreckenberger, A., Semertzidis, Y. K., Shemyakin, D., Sorbara, M., Stapleton, J., Still, D., Stöckinger, D., Stoughton, C., Stratakis, D., Swanson, H. E., Sweetmore, G., Sweigart, D. A., Syphers, M. J., Tarazona, D. A., Teubner, T., Tewsley-Booth, A. E., Tishchenko, V., Tran, N. H., Turner, W., Valetov, E., Vasilkova, D., Venanzoni, G., Volnykh, V. P., Walton, T., Weisskopf, A., Welty-Rieger, L., Winter, P., Wu, Y., Yu, B., Yucel, M., Zeng, Y., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present details on a new measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly, $a_\mu = (g_\mu -2)/2$. The result is based on positive muon data taken at Fermilab's Muon Campus during the 2019 and 2020 accelerator runs. The measurement uses $3.1$ GeV$/c$ polarized muons stored in a $7.1$-m-radius storage ring with a $1.45$ T uniform magnetic field. The value of $ a_{\mu}$ is determined from the measured difference between the muon spin precession frequency and its cyclotron frequency. This difference is normalized to the strength of the magnetic field, measured using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). The ratio is then corrected for small contributions from beam motion, beam dispersion, and transient magnetic fields. We measure $a_\mu = 116 592 057 (25) \times 10^{-11}$ (0.21 ppm). This is the world's most precise measurement of this quantity and represents a factor of $2.2$ improvement over our previous result based on the 2018 dataset. In combination, the two datasets yield $a_\mu(\text{FNAL}) = 116 592 055 (24) \times 10^{-11}$ (0.20 ppm). Combining this with the measurements from Brookhaven National Laboratory for both positive and negative muons, the new world average is $a_\mu$(exp) $ = 116 592 059 (22) \times 10^{-11}$ (0.19 ppm)., Comment: 48 pages, 29 figures; 4 pages of Supplement Material; version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Published: 2024

2. Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm

Author: Aguillard, D. P., Albahri, T., Allspach, D., Anisenkov, A., Badgley, K., Baeßler, S., Bailey, I., Bailey, L., Baranov, V. A., Barlas-Yucel, E., Barrett, T., Barzi, E., Bedeschi, F., Berz, M., Bhattacharya, M., Binney, H. P., Bloom, P., Bono, J., Bottalico, E., Bowcock, T., Braun, S., Bressler, M., Cantatore, G., Carey, R. M., Casey, B. C. K., Cauz, D., Chakraborty, R., Chapelain, A., Chappa, S., Charity, S., Chen, C., Cheng, M., Chislett, R., Chu, Z., Chupp, T. E., Claessens, C., Convery, M. E., Corrodi, S., Cotrozzi, L., Crnkovic, J. D., Dabagov, S., Debevec, P. T., Di Falco, S., Di Sciascio, G., Drendel, B., Driutti, A., Duginov, V. N., Eads, M., Edmonds, A., Esquivel, J., Farooq, M., Fatemi, R., Ferrari, C., Fertl, M., Fienberg, A. T., Fioretti, A., Flay, D., Foster, S. B., Friedsam, H., Froemming, N. S., Gabbanini, C., Gaines, I., Galati, M. D., Ganguly, S., Garcia, A., George, J., Gibbons, L. K., Gioiosa, A., Giovanetti, K. L., Girotti, P., Gohn, W., Goodenough, L., Gorringe, T., Grange, J., Grant, S., Gray, F., Haciomeroglu, S., Halewood-Leagas, T., Hampai, D., Han, F., Hempstead, J., Hertzog, D. W., Hesketh, G., Hess, E., Hibbert, A., Hodge, Z., Hong, K. W., Hong, R., Hu, T., Hu, Y., Iacovacci, M., Incagli, M., Kammel, P., Kargiantoulakis, M., Karuza, M., Kaspar, J., Kawall, D., Kelton, L., Keshavarzi, A., Kessler, D. S., Khaw, K. S., Khechadoorian, Z., Khomutov, N. V., Kiburg, B., Kiburg, M., Kim, O., Kinnaird, N., Kraegeloh, E., Krylov, V. A., Kuchinskiy, N. A., Labe, K. R., LaBounty, J., Lancaster, M., Lee, S., Li, B., Li, D., Li, L., Logashenko, I., Campos, A. Lorente, Lu, Z., Lucà, A., Lukicov, G., Lusiani, A., Lyon, A. L., MacCoy, B., Madrak, R., Makino, K., Mastroianni, S., Miller, J. P., Miozzi, S., Mitra, B., Morgan, J. P., Morse, W. M., Mott, J., Nath, A., Ng, J. K., Nguyen, H., Oksuzian, Y., Omarov, Z., Osofsky, R., Park, S., Pauletta, G., Piacentino, G. M., Pilato, R. N., Pitts, K. T., Plaster, B., Počanić, D., Pohlman, N., Polly, C. C., Price, J., Quinn, B., Qureshi, M. U. H., Ramachandran, S., Ramberg, E., Reimann, R., Roberts, B. L., Rubin, D. L., Santi, L., Schlesier, C., Schreckenberger, A., Semertzidis, Y. K., Shemyakin, D., Sorbara, M., Stapleton, J., Still, D., Stöckinger, D., Stoughton, C., Stratakis, D., Swanson, H. E., Sweetmore, G., Sweigart, D. A., Syphers, M. J., Tarazona, D. A., Teubner, T., Tewsley-Booth, A. E., Tishchenko, V., Tran, N. H., Turner, W., Valetov, E., Vasilkova, D., Venanzoni, G., Volnykh, V. P., Walton, T., Weisskopf, A., Welty-Rieger, L., Winter, P., Wu, Y., Yu, B., Yucel, M., Zeng, Y., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a new measurement of the positive muon magnetic anomaly, $a_\mu \equiv (g_\mu - 2)/2$, from the Fermilab Muon $g\!-\!2$ Experiment using data collected in 2019 and 2020. We have analyzed more than 4 times the number of positrons from muon decay than in our previous result from 2018 data. The systematic error is reduced by more than a factor of 2 due to better running conditions, a more stable beam, and improved knowledge of the magnetic field weighted by the muon distribution, $\tilde{\omega}'^{}_p$, and of the anomalous precession frequency corrected for beam dynamics effects, $\omega_a$. From the ratio $\omega_a / \tilde{\omega}'^{}_p$, together with precisely determined external parameters, we determine $a_\mu = 116\,592\,057(25) \times 10^{-11}$ (0.21 ppm). Combining this result with our previous result from the 2018 data, we obtain $a_\mu\text{(FNAL)} = 116\,592\,055(24) \times 10^{-11}$ (0.20 ppm). The new experimental world average is $a_\mu (\text{Exp}) = 116\,592\,059(22)\times 10^{-11}$ (0.19 ppm), which represents a factor of 2 improvement in precision., Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2023
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3. Vulnerability of northern rocky mountain forests under future drought, fire, and harvest

Author: Stenzel, Jeffrey E, Kolden, Crystal A, Buotte, Polly C, Bartowitz, Kristina J, Walsh, Eric W, and Hudiburg, Tara W
Subjects: Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences, Forestry Sciences, Climate Action, forest, climate change, modeling, vulnerability, drought, fire, management, carbon, Forestry sciences
Abstract: Novel climate and disturbance regimes in the 21st century threaten to increase the vulnerability of some western U.S. forests to loss of biomass and function. However, the timing and magnitude of forest vulnerabilities are uncertain and will be highly variable across the complex biophysical landscape of the region. Assessing future forest trajectories and potential management impacts under novel conditions requires place-specific and mechanistic model projections. Stakeholders in the high-carbon density forests of the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains (NRM) currently seek to understand and mitigate climate risks to these diverse conifer forests, which experienced profound 20th century disturbance from the 1910 “Big Burn” and timber harvest. Present forest management plan revisions consider approaches including increases in timber harvest that are intended to shift species compositions and increase forest stress tolerance. We utilize CLM-FATES, a dynamic vegetation model (DVM) coupled to an Earth Systems Model (ESM), to model shifting NRM forest carbon stocks and cover, production, and disturbance through 2100 under unprecedented climate and management. Across all 21st century scenarios, domain forest C-stocks and canopy cover face decline after 2090 due to the interaction of intermittent drought and fire mortality with declining Net Primary Production (NPP) and post-disturbance recovery. However, mid-century increases in forest vulnerability to fire and drought impacts are not consistently projected across climate models due to increases in precipitation that buffer warming impacts. Under all climate scenarios, increased harvest regimes diminish forest carbon stocks and increase period mortality over business-as-usual, despite some late-century reductions in forest stress. Results indicate that existing forest carbon stocks and functions are moderately persistent and that increased near-term removals may be mistimed for effectively increasing resilience.
Published: 2023

4. Testing Lepton Flavor Universality and CKM Unitarity with Rare Pion Decays in the PIONEER experiment

Author: PIONEER Collaboration, Altmannshofer, W., Binney, H., Blucher, E., Bryman, D., Caminada, L., Chen, S., Cirigliano, V., Corrodi, S., Crivellin, A., Cuen-Rochin, S., Di Canto, A., Doria, L., Gaponenko, A., Garcia, A., Gibbons, L., Glaser, C., Godoy, M. Escobar, Göldi, D., Gori, S., Gorringe, T., Hertzog, D., Hodge, Z., Hoferichter, M., Ito, S., Iwamoto, T., Kammel, P., Kiburg, B., Labe, K., LaBounty, J., Langenegger, U., Malbrunot, C., Mazza, S. M., Mihara, S., Mischke, R., Mori, T., Mott, J., Numao, T., Ootani, W., Ott, J., Pachal, K., Polly, C., Počanić, D., Qian, X., Ries, D., Roehnelt, R., Schumm, B., Schwendimann, P., Seiden, A., Sher, A., Shrock, R., Soter, A., Sullivan, T., Tarka, M., Tischenko, V., Tricoli, A., Velghe, B., Wong, V., Worcester, E., Worcester, M., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The physics motivation and the conceptual design of the PIONEER experiment, a next-generation rare pion decay experiment testing lepton flavor universality and CKM unitarity, are described. Phase I of the PIONEER experiment, which was proposed and approved at Paul Scherrer Institut, aims at measuring the charged-pion branching ratio to electrons vs.\ muons, $R_{e/\mu}$, 15 times more precisely than the current experimental result, reaching the precision of the Standard Model (SM) prediction at 1 part in $10^4$. Considering several inconsistencies between the SM predictions and data pointing towards the potential violation of lepton flavor universality, the PIONEER experiment will probe non-SM explanations of these anomalies through sensitivity to quantum effects of new particles up to the PeV mass scale. The later phases of the PIONEER experiment aim at improving the experimental precision of the branching ratio of pion beta decay (BRPB), $\pi^+\to \pi^0 e^+ \nu (\gamma)$, currently at $1.036(6)\times10^{-8}$, by a factor of three (Phase II) and an order of magnitude (Phase III). Such precise measurements of BRPB will allow for tests of CKM unitarity in light of the Cabibbo Angle Anomaly and the theoretically cleanest extraction of $|V_{ud}|$ at the 0.02\% level, comparable to the deduction from superallowed beta decays., Comment: contribution to Snowmass 2021 based on the PIONEER proposal (arXiv:2203.01981)
Published: 2022

5. PIONEER: Studies of Rare Pion Decays

Author: PIONEER Collaboration, Altmannshofer, W., Binney, H., Blucher, E., Bryman, D., Caminada, L., Chen, S., Cirigliano, V., Corrodi, S., Crivellin, A., Cuen-Rochin, S., DiCanto, A., Doria, L., Gaponenko, A., Garcia, A., Gibbons, L., Glaser, C., Godoy, M. Escobar, Göldi, D., Gori, S., Gorringe, T., Hertzog, D., Hodge, Z., Hoferichter, M., Ito, S., Iwamoto, T., Kammel, P., Kiburg, B., Labe, K., LaBounty, J., Langenegger, U., Malbrunot, C., Mazza, S. M., Mihara, S., Mischke, R., Mori, T., Mott, J., Numao, T., Ootani, W., Ott, J., Pachal, K., Polly, C., Počanić, D., Qian, X., Ries, D., Roehnelt, R., Schumm, B., Schwendimann, P., Seiden, A., Sher, A., Shrock, R., Soter, A., Sullivan, T., Tarka, M., Tischenko, V., Tricoli, A., Velghe, B., Wong, V., Worcester, E., Worcester, M., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: A next-generation rare pion decay experiment, PIONEER, is strongly motivated by several inconsistencies between Standard Model (SM) predictions and data pointing towards the potential violation of lepton flavor universality. It will probe non-SM explanations of these anomalies through sensitivity to quantum effects of new particles even if their masses are at very high scales. Measurement of the charged-pion branching ratio to electrons vs. muons $R_{e/\mu}$ is extremely sensitive to new physics effects. At present, the SM prediction for $R_{e/\mu}$ is known to 1 part in $10^4$, which is 15 times more precise than the current experimental result. An experiment reaching the theoretical accuracy will test lepton flavor universality at an unprecedented level, probing mass scales up to the PeV range. Measurement of pion beta decay, $\pi^+\to \pi^0 e^+ \nu (\gamma)$, with 3 to 10-fold improvement in sensitivity, will determine $V_{ud}$ in a theoretically pristine manner and test CKM unitarity, which is very important in light of the recently emerged tensions. In addition, various exotic rare decays involving sterile neutrinos and axions will be searched for with unprecedented sensitivity. The experiment design benefits from experience with the recent PIENU and PEN experiments at TRIUMF and the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). Excellent energy and time resolutions, greatly increased calorimeter depth, high-speed detector and electronics response, large solid angle coverage, and complete event reconstruction are all critical aspects of the approach. The PIONEER experiment design includes a 3$\pi$ sr 25 radiation length calorimeter, a segmented low gain avalanche detector stopping target, a positron tracker, and other detectors. Using intense pion beams, and state-of-the-art instrumentation and computational resources, the experiments can be performed at the PSI ring cyclotron.
Published: 2022

6. The fast non-ferric kicker system for the Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab

Author: Schreckenberger, A. P., Allspach, D., Barak, D., Bohn, J., Bradford, C., Cauz, D., Chang, S. P., Chapelain, A., Chappa, S., Charity, S., Chislett, R., Esquivel, J., Ferrari, C., Fioretti, A., Gabbanini, C., Galati, M. D., Gibbons, L., Holzbauer, J. L., Incagli, M., Jensen, C., Kaspar, J., Kawall, D., Keshavarzi, A., Kessler, D. S., Kiburg, B., Krafczyk, G., Madrak, R., Mikhailichenko, A. A., Nguyen, H., Overhage, K., Park, S., Pfeffer, H., Polly, C. C., Popovic, M., Rivera, R., Roberts, B. L., Rubin, D., Semertzidis, Y. K., Stapleton, J., Stoughton, C., Voirin, E., and Wolff, D.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We describe the installation, commissioning, and characterization of the new injection kicker system in the Muon $g-2$ Experiment (E989) at Fermilab, which makes a precision measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly. Three Blumlein pulsers drive each of the 1.27-m-long non-ferric kicker magnets, which reside in a storage ring vacuum (SRV) that is subjected to a 1.45 T magnetic field. The new system has been redesigned relative to Muon $g-2$'s predecessor experiment, and we present those details in this manuscript.
Published: 2021
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7. Measurement of the anomalous precession frequency of the muon in the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment

Author: Albahri, T., Anastasi, A., Anisenkov, A., Badgley, K., Baeßler, S., Bailey, I., Baranov, V. A., Barlas-Yucel, E., Barrett, T., Basti, A., Bedeschi, F., Berz, M., Bhattacharya, M., Binney, H. P., Bloom, P., Bono, J., Bottalico, E., Bowcock, T., Cantatore, G., Carey, R. M., Casey, B. C. K., Cauz, D., Chakraborty, R., Chang, S. P., Chapelain, A., Charity, S., Chislett, R., Choi, J., Chu, Z., Chupp, T. E., Corrodi, S., Cotrozzi, L., Crnkovic, J. D., Dabagov, S., Debevec, P. T., Di Falco, S., Di Meo, P., Di Sciascio, G., Di Stefano, R., Driutti, A., Duginov, V. N., Eads, M., Esquivel, J., Farooq, M., Fatemi, R., Ferrari, C., Fertl, M., Fienberg, A. T., Fioretti, A., Flay, D., Frlež, E., Froemming, N. S., Fry, J., Gabbanini, C., Galati, M. D., Ganguly, S., Garcia, A., George, J., Gibbons, L. K., Gioiosa, A., Giovanetti, K. L., Girotti, P., Gohn, W., Gorringe, T., Grange, J., Grant, S., Gray, F., Haciomeroglu, S., Halewood-Leagas, T., Hampai, D., Han, F., Hempstead, J., Herrod, A. T., Hertzog, D. W., Hesketh, G., Hibbert, A., Hodge, Z., Holzbauer, J. L., Hong, K. W., Hong, R., Iacovacci, M., Incagli, M., Kammel, P., Kargiantoulakis, M., Karuza, M., Kaspar, J., Kawall, D., Kelton, L., Keshavarzi, A., Kessler, D., Khaw, K. S., Khechadoorian, Z., Khomutov, N. V., Kiburg, B., Kiburg, M., Kim, O., Kim, Y. I., King, B., Kinnaird, N., Kraegeloh, E., Kuchibhotla, A., Kuchinskiy, N. A., Labe, K. R., LaBounty, J., Lancaster, M., Lee, M. J., Lee, S., Leo, S., Li, B., Li, D., Li, L., Logashenko, I., Campos, A. Lorente, Lucà, A., Lukicov, G., Lusiani, A., Lyon, A. L., MacCoy, B., Madrak, R., Makino, K., Marignetti, F., Mastroianni, S., Miller, J. P., Miozzi, S., Morse, W. M., Mott, J., Nath, A., Nguyen, H., Osofsky, R., Park, S., Pauletta, G., Piacentino, G. M., Pilato, R. N., Pitts, K. T., Plaster, B., Počanić, D., Pohlman, N., Polly, C. C., Price, J., Quinn, B., Raha, N., Ramachandran, S., Ramberg, E., Ritchie, J. L., Roberts, B. L., Rubin, D. L., Santi, L., Schlesier, C., Schreckenberger, A., Semertzidis, Y. K., Shemyakin, D., Smith, M. W., Sorbara, M., Stöckinger, D., Stapleton, J., Stoughton, C., Stratakis, D., Stuttard, T., Swanson, H. E., Sweetmore, G., Sweigart, D. A., Syphers, M. J., Tarazona, D. A., Teubner, T., Tewsley-Booth, A. E., Thomson, K., Tishchenko, V., Tran, N. H., Turner, W., Valetov, E., Vasilkova, D., Venanzoni, G., Walton, T., Weisskopf, A., Welty-Rieger, L., Winter, P., Wolski, A., and Wu, W.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) has measured the muon anomalous precession frequency $\omega_a$ to an uncertainty of 434 parts per billion (ppb), statistical, and 56 ppb, systematic, with data collected in four storage ring configurations during its first physics run in 2018. When combined with a precision measurement of the magnetic field of the experiment's muon storage ring, the precession frequency measurement determines a muon magnetic anomaly of $a_{\mu}({\rm FNAL}) = 116\,592\,040(54) \times 10^{-11}$ (0.46 ppm). This article describes the multiple techniques employed in the reconstruction, analysis and fitting of the data to measure the precession frequency. It also presents the averaging of the results from the eleven separate determinations of \omega_a, and the systematic uncertainties on the result., Comment: 29 pages, 19 figures. Published in Physical Review D
Published: 2021
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8. Magnetic Field Measurement and Analysis for the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab

Author: Albahri, T., Anastasi, A., Badgley, K., Baeßler, S., Bailey, I., Baranov, V. A., Barlas-Yucel, E., Barrett, T., Bedeschi, F., Berz, M., Bhattacharya, M., Binney, H. P., Bloom, P., Bono, J., Bottalico, E., Bowcock, T., Cantatore, G., Carey, R. M., Casey, B. C. K., Cauz, D., Chakraborty, R., Chang, S. P., Chapelain, A., Charity, S., Chislett, R., Choi, J., Chu, Z., Chupp, T. E., Conway, A., Corrodi, S., Cotrozzi, L., Crnkovic, J. D., Dabagov, S., Debevec, P. T., Di Falco, S., Di Meo, P., Di Sciascio, G., Di Stefano, R., Driutti, A., Duginov, V. N., Eads, M., Esquivel, J., Farooq, M., Fatemi, R., Ferrari, C., Fertl, M., Fienberg, A. T., Fioretti, A., Flay, D., Froemming, N. S., Gabbanini, C., Galati, M. D., Ganguly, S., Garcia, A., George, J., Gibbons, L. K., Gioiosa, A., Giovanetti, K. L., Girotti, P., Gohn, W., Gorringe, T., Grange, J., Grant, S., Gray, F., Haciomeroglu, S., Halewood-Leagas, T., Hampai, D., Han, F., Hempstead, J., Herrod, A. T., Hertzog, D. W., Hesketh, G., Hibbert, A., Hodge, Z., Holzbauer, J. L., Hong, K. W., Hong, R., Iacovacci, M., Incagli, M., Kammel, P., Kargiantoulakis, M., Karuza, M., Kaspar, J., Kawall, D., Kelton, L., Keshavarzi, A., Kessler, D., Khaw, K. S., Khechadoorian, Z., Khomutov, N. V., Kiburg, B., Kiburg, M., Kim, O., Kim, Y. I., King, B., Kinnaird, N., Kraegeloh, E., Kuchinskiy, N. A., Labe, K. R., LaBounty, J., Lancaster, M., Lee, M. J., Lee, S., Li, B., Li, D., Li, L., Logashenko, I., Campos, A. Lorente, Lucà, A., Lukicov, G., Lusiani, A., Lyon, A. L., MacCoy, B., Madrak, R., Makino, K., Marignetti, F., Mastroianni, S., Miller, J. P., Miozzi, S., Morse, W. M., Mott, J., Nath, A., Nguyen, H., Osofsky, R., Park, S., Pauletta, G., Piacentino, G. M., Pilato, R. N., Pitts, K. T., Plaster, B., Počanić, D., Pohlman, N., Polly, C. C., Price, J., Quinn, B., Raha, N., Ramachandran, S., Ramberg, E., Ritchie, J. L., Roberts, B. L., Rubin, D. L., Santi, L., Schlesier, C., Schreckenberger, A., Semertzidis, Y. K., Shemyakin, D., Smith, M. W., Sorbara, M., Stöckinger, D., Stapleton, J., Stoughton, C., Stratakis, D., Stuttard, T., Swanson, H. E., Sweetmore, G., Sweigart, D. A., Syphers, M. J., Tarazona, D. A., Teubner, T., Tewsley-Booth, A. E., Thomson, K., Tishchenko, V., Tran, N. H., Turner, W., Valetov, E., Vasilkova, D., Venanzoni, G., Walton, T., Weisskopf, A., Welty-Rieger, L., Winter, P., Wolski, A., and Wu, W.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has measured the anomalous precession frequency $a^{}_\mu = (g^{}_\mu-2)/2$ of the muon to a combined precision of 0.46 parts per million with data collected during its first physics run in 2018. This paper documents the measurement of the magnetic field in the muon storage ring. The magnetic field is monitored by nuclear magnetic resonance systems and calibrated in terms of the equivalent proton spin precession frequency in a spherical water sample at 34.7$^\circ$C. The measured field is weighted by the muon distribution resulting in $\tilde{\omega}'^{}_p$, the denominator in the ratio $\omega^{}_a$/$\tilde{\omega}'^{}_p$ that together with known fundamental constants yields $a^{}_\mu$. The reported uncertainty on $\tilde{\omega}'^{}_p$ for the Run-1 data set is 114 ppb consisting of uncertainty contributions from frequency extraction, calibration, mapping, tracking, and averaging of 56 ppb, and contributions from fast transient fields of 99 ppb., Comment: Added one citation and corrected missing normalization in Eqs (35) and (36)
Published: 2021
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9. Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.46 ppm

Author: Abi, B., Albahri, T., Al-Kilani, S., Allspach, D., Alonzi, L. P., Anastasi, A., Anisenkov, A., Azfar, F., Badgley, K., Baeßler, S., Bailey, I., Baranov, V. A., Barlas-Yucel, E., Barrett, T., Barzi, E., Basti, A., Bedeschi, F., Behnke, A., Berz, M., Bhattacharya, M., Binney, H. P., Bjorkquist, R., Bloom, P., Bono, J., Bottalico, E., Bowcock, T., Boyden, D., Cantatore, G., Carey, R. M., Carroll, J., Casey, B. C. K., Cauz, D., Ceravolo, S., Chakraborty, R., Chang, S. P., Chapelain, A., Chappa, S., Charity, S., Chislett, R., Choi, J., Chu, Z., Chupp, T. E., Convery, M. E., Conway, A., Corradi, G., Corrodi, S., Cotrozzi, L., Crnkovic, J. D., Dabagov, S., De Lurgio, P. M., Debevec, P. T., Di Falco, S., Di Meo, P., Di Sciascio, G., Di Stefano, R., Drendel, B., Driutti, A., Duginov, V. N., Eads, M., Eggert, N., Epps, A., Esquivel, J., Farooq, M., Fatemi, R., Ferrari, C., Fertl, M., Fiedler, A., Fienberg, A. T., Fioretti, A., Flay, D., Foster, S. B., Friedsam, H., Frlež, E., Froemming, N. S., Fry, J., Fu, C., Gabbanini, C., Galati, M. D., Ganguly, S., Garcia, A., Gastler, D. E., George, J., Gibbons, L. K., Gioiosa, A., Giovanetti, K. L., Girotti, P., Gohn, W., Gorringe, T., Grange, J., Grant, S., Gray, F., Haciomeroglu, S., Hahn, D., Halewood-Leagas, T., Hampai, D., Han, F., Hazen, E., Hempstead, J., Henry, S., Herrod, A. T., Hertzog, D. W., Hesketh, G., Hibbert, A., Hodge, Z., Holzbauer, J. L., Hong, K. W., Hong, R., Iacovacci, M., Incagli, M., Johnstone, C., Johnstone, J. A., Kammel, P., Kargiantoulakis, M., Karuza, M., Kaspar, J., Kawall, D., Kelton, L., Keshavarzi, A., Kessler, D., Khaw, K. S., Khechadoorian, Z., Khomutov, N. V., Kiburg, B., Kiburg, M., Kim, O., Kim, S. C., Kim, Y. I., King, B., Kinnaird, N., Korostelev, M., Kourbanis, I., Kraegeloh, E., Krylov, V. A., Kuchibhotla, A., Kuchinskiy, N. A., Labe, K. R., LaBounty, J., Lancaster, M., Lee, M. J., Lee, S., Leo, S., Li, B., Li, D., Li, L., Logashenko, I., Campos, A. Lorente, Lucà, A., Lukicov, G., Luo, G., Lusiani, A., Lyon, A. L., MacCoy, B., Madrak, R., Makino, K., Marignetti, F., Mastroianni, S., Maxfield, S., McEvoy, M., Merritt, W., Mikhailichenko, A. A., Miller, J. P., Miozzi, S., Morgan, J. P., Morse, W. M., Mott, J., Motuk, E., Nath, A., Newton, D., Nguyen, H., Oberling, M., Osofsky, R., Ostiguy, J. -F., Park, S., Pauletta, G., Piacentino, G. M., Pilato, R. N., Pitts, K. T., Plaster, B., Počanić, D., Pohlman, N., Polly, C. C., Popovic, M., Price, J., Quinn, B., Raha, N., Ramachandran, S., Ramberg, E., Rider, N. T., Ritchie, J. L., Roberts, B. L., Rubin, D. L., Santi, L., Sathyan, D., Schellman, H., Schlesier, C., Schreckenberger, A., Semertzidis, Y. K., Shatunov, Y. M., Shemyakin, D., Shenk, M., Sim, D., Smith, M. W., Smith, A., Soha, A. K., Sorbara, M., Stöckinger, D., Stapleton, J., Still, D., Stoughton, C., Stratakis, D., Strohman, C., Stuttard, T., Swanson, H. E., Sweetmore, G., Sweigart, D. A., Syphers, M. J., Tarazona, D. A., Teubner, T., Tewsley-Booth, A. E., Thomson, K., Tishchenko, V., Tran, N. H., Turner, W., Valetov, E., Vasilkova, D., Venanzoni, G., Volnykh, V. P., Walton, T., Warren, M., Weisskopf, A., Welty-Rieger, L., Whitley, M., Winter, P., Wolski, A., Wormald, M., Wu, W., and Yoshikawa, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present the first results of the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment for the positive muon magnetic anomaly $a_\mu \equiv (g_\mu-2)/2$. The anomaly is determined from the precision measurements of two angular frequencies. Intensity variation of high-energy positrons from muon decays directly encodes the difference frequency $\omega_a$ between the spin-precession and cyclotron frequencies for polarized muons in a magnetic storage ring. The storage ring magnetic field is measured using nuclear magnetic resonance probes calibrated in terms of the equivalent proton spin precession frequency ${\tilde{\omega}'^{}_p}$ in a spherical water sample at 34.7$^{\circ}$C. The ratio $\omega_a / {\tilde{\omega}'^{}_p}$, together with known fundamental constants, determines $a_\mu({\rm FNAL}) = 116\,592\,040(54)\times 10^{-11}$ (0.46\,ppm). The result is 3.3 standard deviations greater than the standard model prediction and is in excellent agreement with the previous Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) E821 measurement. After combination with previous measurements of both $\mu^+$ and $\mu^-$, the new experimental average of $a_\mu({\rm Exp}) = 116\,592\,061(41)\times 10^{-11}$ (0.35\,ppm) increases the tension between experiment and theory to 4.2 standard deviations, Comment: 10 pages; 4 figures
Published: 2021
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10. Beam dynamics corrections to the Run-1 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment at Fermilab

Author: Albahri, T., Anastasi, A., Badgley, K., Baeßler, S., Bailey, I., Baranov, V. A., Barlas-Yucel, E., Barrett, T., Bedeschi, F., Berz, M., Bhattacharya, M., Binney, H. P., Bloom, P., Bono, J., Bottalico, E., Bowcock, T., Cantatore, G., Carey, R. M., Casey, B. C. K., Cauz, D., Chakraborty, R., Chang, S. P., Chapelain, A., Charity, S., Chislett, R., Choi, J., Chu, Z., Chupp, T. E., Corrodi, S., Cotrozzi, L., Crnkovic, J. D., Dabagov, S., Debevec, P. T., Di Falco, S., Di Meo, P., Di Sciascio, G., Di Stefano, R., Driutti, A., Duginov, V. N., Eads, M., Esquivel, J., Farooq, M., Fatemi, R., Ferrari, C., Fertl, M., Fiedler, A., Fienberg, A. T., Fioretti, A., Flay, D., Frlež, E., Froemming, N. S., Fry, J., Gabbanini, C., Galati, M. D., Ganguly, S., Garcia, A., George, J., Gibbons, L. K., Gioiosa, A., Giovanetti, K. L., Girotti, P., Gohn, W., Gorringe, T., Grange, J., Grant, S., Gray, F., Haciomeroglu, S., Halewood-Leagas, T., Hampai, D., Han, F., Hempstead, J., Herrod, A. T., Hertzog, D. W., Hesketh, G., Hibbert, A., Hodge, Z., Holzbauer, J. L., Hong, K. W., Hong, R., Iacovacci, M., Incagli, M., Kammel, P., Kargiantoulakis, M., Karuza, M., Kaspar, J., Kawall, D., Kelton, L., Keshavarzi, A., Kessler, D., Khaw, K. S., Khechadoorian, Z., Khomutov, N. V., Kiburg, B., Kiburg, M., Kim, O., Kim, Y. I., King, B., Kinnaird, N., Korostelev, M., Kraegeloh, E., Kuchinskiy, N. A., Labe, K. R., LaBounty, J., Lancaster, M., Lee, M. J., Lee, S., Li, B., Li, D., Li, L., Logashenko, I., Campos, A. Lorente, Lucà, A., Lukicov, G., Lusiani, A., Lyon, A. L., MacCoy, B., Madrak, R., Makino, K., Marignetti, F., Mastroianni, S., Miller, J. P., Miozzi, S., Morse, W. M., Mott, J., Nath, A., Newton, D., Nguyen, H., Osofsky, R., Park, S., Pauletta, G., Piacentino, G. M., Pilato, R. N., Pitts, K. T., Plaster, B., Počanić, D., Pohlman, N., Polly, C. C., Price, J., Quinn, B., Raha, N., Ramachandran, S., Ramberg, E., Ritchie, J. L., Roberts, B. L., Rubin, D. L., Santi, L., Sathyan, D., Schlesier, C., Schreckenberger, A., Semertzidis, Y. K., Smith, M. W., Sorbara, M., Stöckinger, D., Stapleton, J., Stoughton, C., Stratakis, D., Stuttard, T., Swanson, H. E., Sweetmore, G., Sweigart, D. A., Syphers, M. J., Tarazona, D. A., Teubner, T., Tewsley-Booth, A. E., Thomson, K., Tishchenko, V., Tran, N. H., Turner, W., Valetov, E., Vasilkova, D., Venanzoni, G., Walton, T., Weisskopf, A., Welty-Rieger, L., Winter, P., Wolski, A., and Wu, W.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This paper presents the beam dynamics systematic corrections and their uncertainties for the Run-1 data set of the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment. Two corrections to the measured muon precession frequency $\omega_a^m$ are associated with well-known effects owing to the use of electrostatic quadrupole (ESQ) vertical focusing in the storage ring. An average vertically oriented motional magnetic field is felt by relativistic muons passing transversely through the radial electric field components created by the ESQ system. The correction depends on the stored momentum distribution and the tunes of the ring, which has relatively weak vertical focusing. Vertical betatron motions imply that the muons do not orbit the ring in a plane exactly orthogonal to the vertical magnetic field direction. A correction is necessary to account for an average pitch angle associated with their trajectories. A third small correction is necessary because muons that escape the ring during the storage time are slightly biased in initial spin phase compared to the parent distribution. Finally, because two high-voltage resistors in the ESQ network had longer than designed RC time constants, the vertical and horizontal centroids and envelopes of the stored muon beam drifted slightly, but coherently, during each storage ring fill. This led to the discovery of an important phase-acceptance relationship that requires a correction. The sum of the corrections to $\omega_a^m$ is 0.50 $\pm$ 0.09 ppm; the uncertainty is small compared to the 0.43 ppm statistical precision of $\omega_a^m$., Comment: 35 pages, 29 figures. Accepted by Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams
Published: 2021
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11. Capturing functional strategies and compositional dynamics in vegetation demographic models

Author: Buotte, Polly C, Koven, Charles D, Xu, Chonggang, Shuman, Jacquelyn K, Goulden, Michael L, Levis, Samuel, Katz, Jessica, Ding, Junyan, Ma, Wu, Robbins, Zachary, and Kueppers, Lara M
Subjects: Environmental Sciences, Ecological Applications, Ecology, Biological Sciences, Climate Action, Earth Sciences, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, Physical geography and environmental geoscience, Environmental management
Abstract: Plant community composition influences carbon, water, and energy fluxes at regional to global scales. Vegetation demographic models (VDMs) allow investigation of the effects of changing climate and disturbance regimes on vegetation composition and fluxes. Such investigation requires that the models can accurately resolve these feedbacks to simulate realistic composition. Vegetation in VDMs is composed of plant functional types (PFTs), which are specified according to plant traits. Defining PFTs is challenging due to large variability in trait observations within and between plant types and a lack of understanding of model sensitivity to these traits. Here we present an approach for developing PFT parameterizations that are connected to the underlying ecological processes determining forest composition in the mixed-conifer forest of the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. We constrain multiple relative trait values between PFTs, as opposed to randomly sampling within the range of observations. An ensemble of PFT parameterizations are then filtered based on emergent forest properties meeting observation-based ecological criteria under alternate disturbance scenarios. A small ensemble of alternate PFT parameterizations is identified that produces plausible forest composition and demonstrates variability in response to disturbance frequency and regional environmental variation. Retaining multiple PFT parameterizations allows us to quantify the uncertainty in forest responses due to variability in trait observations. Vegetation composition is a key emergent outcome from VDMs and our methodology provides a foundation for robust PFT parameterization across ecosystems.
Published: 2021

12. Vulnerability of northern rocky mountain forests under future drought, fire, and harvest

Author: Jeffrey E. Stenzel, Crystal A. Kolden, Polly C. Buotte, Kristina J. Bartowitz, Eric W. Walsh, and Tara W. Hudiburg
Subjects: forest, climate change, modeling, vulnerability, drought, fire, Forestry, SD1-669.5, Environmental sciences, GE1-350
Abstract: Novel climate and disturbance regimes in the 21st century threaten to increase the vulnerability of some western U.S. forests to loss of biomass and function. However, the timing and magnitude of forest vulnerabilities are uncertain and will be highly variable across the complex biophysical landscape of the region. Assessing future forest trajectories and potential management impacts under novel conditions requires place-specific and mechanistic model projections. Stakeholders in the high-carbon density forests of the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains (NRM) currently seek to understand and mitigate climate risks to these diverse conifer forests, which experienced profound 20th century disturbance from the 1910 “Big Burn” and timber harvest. Present forest management plan revisions consider approaches including increases in timber harvest that are intended to shift species compositions and increase forest stress tolerance. We utilize CLM-FATES, a dynamic vegetation model (DVM) coupled to an Earth Systems Model (ESM), to model shifting NRM forest carbon stocks and cover, production, and disturbance through 2100 under unprecedented climate and management. Across all 21st century scenarios, domain forest C-stocks and canopy cover face decline after 2090 due to the interaction of intermittent drought and fire mortality with declining Net Primary Production (NPP) and post-disturbance recovery. However, mid-century increases in forest vulnerability to fire and drought impacts are not consistently projected across climate models due to increases in precipitation that buffer warming impacts. Under all climate scenarios, increased harvest regimes diminish forest carbon stocks and increase period mortality over business-as-usual, despite some late-century reductions in forest stress. Results indicate that existing forest carbon stocks and functions are moderately persistent and that increased near-term removals may be mistimed for effectively increasing resilience.
Published: 2023
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13. Cell-free expression and SMA copolymer encapsulation of a functional receptor tyrosine kinase disease variant, FGFR3-TACC3

Author: Snow, Alexander J D, primary, Wijesiriwardena, Tharushi, additional, Lane, Benjamin J, additional, Farrell, Brendan, additional, Dowdle, Polly C, additional, Katan, Matilda, additional, Muench, Stephen P, additional, and Breeze, Alexander L, additional
Published: 2024
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14. How can biosphere models simulate enough vegetation biomass in the mountains of the western United States? Implications of meteorological forcing

Author: Duarte, Henrique F., Raczka, Brett M., Bowling, David R., Wang, Aihui, Buotte, Polly C., and Lin, John C.
Published: 2022
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15. Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change

Author: Beverly E. Law, Logan T. Berner, Polly C. Buotte, David J. Mildrexler, and William J. Ripple
Subjects: Geology, QE1-996.5, Environmental sciences, GE1-350
Abstract: Strategic forest reserves based on biodiversity and carbon storage can help to protect animal and tree species habitat, surface drinking water and carbon stocks and accumulation in the western US, suggests an assessment of current forest preservation.
Published: 2021
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16. Carbon sequestration and biodiversity co-benefits of preserving forests in the western United States

Author: Buotte, Polly C., Law, Beverly E., Ripple, William J., and Berner, Logan T.
Published: 2020

17. Environmental impacts of equine parasiticide treatment: The UK perspective.

Author: Haseler, Callum J., Shrubb, Julia L., Davies, Hannah G. D., Rendle, David I., Rathbone, Polly C., and Mair, Timothy S.
Subjects: CYPERMETHRIN, POISONS, ANTIPARASITIC agents, PYRETHROIDS, ANTHELMINTICS, DUNG beetles, FIPRONIL
Abstract: Summary: While there are limited data on the environmental impact of administering equine parasiticide drugs, evidence from other species indicates significant negative ecological effects. Anthelmintic drugs are excreted unchanged or metabolised to other active and/or toxic metabolites that enter the environment through direct excretion. These chemicals can have significant toxic effects on insects, such as dung beetles, earthworms and aquatic animals. Of the frequently used equine anthelmintics, ivermectin is the most ecotoxic; available evidence indicates that moxidectin is less toxic and fenbendazole appears to have little impact on dung‐colonising insects but may be toxic to aquatic organisms and fungi. There are little data regarding the ecotoxicity of pyrantel and praziquantel, although their ecotoxic effects are thought to be low. Pasture hygiene reduces pharmaceutical contamination and also helps to break the endoparasitic cycle of infectivity, thus reducing reliance on anthelmintics. Judicious and targeted use of endoparasiticides, along with pasture hygiene measures, will limit the ecotoxic effects of these drugs as well as reduce the selection pressure that drives anthelmintic resistance. Anthelmintics may also negatively impact the equine gastrointestinal microbiota. Ectoparasiticides (such as fipronil, permethrin and cypermethrin) may also have significant negative ecological effects, with a risk of contamination of both the immediate environment and water courses following topical use of these drugs. The half‐life of fipronil in the environment is variable, but it degrades into compounds which are more toxic; for example, it is highly toxic to bees and is reported to bioaccumulate in fish and can be toxic to birds. Of the synthetic pyrethroids, permethrin degrades at a faster rate than cypermethrin and may therefore have a lower ecotoxic effect. The ecotoxic effects of injectable doramectin are likely to be similar to oral ivermectin, although persistence in faeces may be significantly prolonged compared to the oral treatment route for ivermectin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2024
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18. Using L/E Oscillation Probability Distributions

Author: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cheng, G., Church, E. D., Conrad, J. M., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Huelsnitz, W., Ignarra, C., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Louis, W. C., Mariani, C., Marsh, W., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nienaber, P., Osmanov, B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Shaevitz, M. H., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Tayloe, R., Van de Water, R. G., White, D. H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: This paper explores the use of $L/E$ oscillation probability distributions to compare experimental measurements and to evaluate oscillation models. In this case, $L$ is the distance of neutrino travel and $E$ is a measure of the interacting neutrino's energy. While comparisons using allowed and excluded regions for oscillation model parameters are likely the only rigorous method for these comparisons, the $L/E$ distributions are shown to give qualitative information on the agreement of an experiment's data with a simple two-neutrino oscillation model. In more detail, this paper also outlines how the $L/E$ distributions can be best calculated and used for model comparisons. Specifically, the paper presents the $L/E$ data points for the final MiniBooNE data samples and, in the Appendix, explains and corrects the mistaken analysis published by the ICARUS collaboration.
Published: 2014

19. Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change

Author: Law, Beverly E., Berner, Logan T., Buotte, Polly C., Mildrexler, David J., and Ripple, William J.
Published: 2021
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20. A new investigation of electron neutrino appearance oscillations with improved sensitivity in the MiniBooNE+ experiment

Author: Dharmapalan, R., Habib, S., Jiang, C., Stancu, I., Djurcic, Z., Johnson, R. A., Wickremasinghe, A., Karagiorgi, G., Shaevitz, M. H., Brown, B. C., Garcia, F. G., Ford, R., Marsh, W., Moore, C. D., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Grange, J., Mousseau, J., Osmanov, B., Ray, H., Cooper, R., Tayloe, R., Thornton, R., Garvey, G. T., Huelsnitz, W., Louis, W. C., Mauger, C., Mills, G. B., Pavlovic, Z., Van de Water, R., White, D. H., Imlay, R., Tzanov, M., Roe, B. P., Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Katori, T., and Nienaber, P.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We propose the addition of scintillator to the existing MiniBooNE detector to allow a test of the neutral-current/charged-current (NC/CC) nature of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess. Scintillator will enable the reconstruction of 2.2 MeV $\gamma$s from neutron-capture on protons following neutrino interactions. Low-energy CC interactions where the oscillation excess is observed should have associated neutrons with less than a 10% probability. This is in contrast to the NC backgrounds that should have associated neutrons in approximately 50% of events. We will measure these neutron fractions with $\nu_\mu$ CC and NC events to eliminate that systematic uncertainty. This neutron-fraction measurement requires $6.5\times10^{20}$ protons on target delivered to MiniBooNE with scintillator added in order to increase the significance of an oscillation excess to over $5\sigma$. This new phase of MiniBooNE will also enable additional important studies such as the spin structure of nucleon ($\Delta s$) via NC elastic scattering, a low-energy measurement of the neutrino flux via $\numu ^{12}C \rightarrow \mu^{-} ^{12}N_\textrm{g.s.}$ scattering, and a test of the quasielastic assumption in neutrino energy reconstruction. These topics will yield important, highly-cited results over the next 5 years for a modest cost, and will help to train Ph.D. students and postdocs. This enterprise offers complementary information to that from the upcoming liquid Argon based MicroBooNE experiment. In addition, MicroBooNE is scheduled to receive neutrinos in early 2014, and there is minimal additional cost to also deliver beam to MiniBooNE., Comment: Submitted as whitepaper for Snowmass'13 proceedings - 8 pages, 3 figures; version 2: Minor change to title and author list
Published: 2013

21. Measurement of the Antineutrino Neutral-Current Elastic Differential Cross Section

Author: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cheng, G., Church, E. D., Conrad, J. M., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Huelsnitz, W., Ignarra, C., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Louis, W. C., Mariani, C., Marsh, W., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nienaber, P., Osmanov, B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Shaevitz, M. H., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Tayloe, R., Van de Water, R. G., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the measurement of the flux-averaged antineutrino neutral current elastic scattering cross section ($d\sigma_{\bar \nu N \rightarrow \bar \nu N}/dQ^{2}$) on CH$_{2}$ by the MiniBooNE experiment using the largest sample of antineutrino neutral current elastic candidate events ever collected. The ratio of the antineutrino to neutrino neutral current elastic scattering cross sections and a ratio of antineutrino neutral current elastic to antineutrino charged current quasi elastic cross section is also presented.
Published: 2013
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22. Light-weight Flexible Magnetic Shields For Large-Aperture Photomultiplier Tubes

Author: DeVore, P., Escontrias, D., Koblesky, T., Lin, C. J., Liu, D. W., Luk, K. B., Ngan, J., Peng, J. C., Polly, C., Roloff, J., Steiner, H., Wang, S., Wong, J., and Yeh, M.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Thin flexible sheets of high-permeability FINEMET foils encased in thin plastic layers have been used to shield various types of 20-cm-diameter photomultiplier tubes from ambient magnetic fields. In the presence of the Earth's magnetic field this type of shielding is shown to increase the collection efficiency of photoelectrons and can improve the uniformity of response of these photomultiplier tubes., Comment: 16 pages, 18 figures
Published: 2013
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23. Improved Search for $\bar \nu_\mu \rightarrow \bar \nu_e$ Oscillations in the MiniBooNE Experiment

Author: The MiniBooNE Collaboration, Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cheng, G., Church, E. D., Conrad, J. M., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Huelsnitz, W., Ignarra, C., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Louis, W. C., Mariani, C., Marsh, W., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nienaber, P., Osmanov, B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Shaevitz, M. H., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Tayloe, R., Van de Water, R. G., White, D. H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of $\bar \nu_e$ appearance data from $11.27 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in antineutrino mode, an increase of approximately a factor of two over the previously reported results. An event excess of $78.4 \pm 28.5$ events ($2.8 \sigma$) is observed in the energy range $200
Published: 2013
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24. First Measurement of the Muon Anti-Neutrino Double-Differential Charged Current Quasi-Elastic Cross Section

Author: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cheng, G., Church, E. D., Conrad, J. M., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Huelsnitz, W., Ignarra, C., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Louis, W. C., Mariani, C., Marsh, W., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nienaber, P., Osmanov, B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Shaevitz, M. H., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Tayloe, R., Wascko, M. O., Van de Water, R. G., White, D. H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The largest sample ever recorded of $\numub$ charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE, $\numub + p \to \mup + n$) candidate events is used to produce the minimally model-dependent, flux-integrated double-differential cross section $\frac{d^{2}\sigma}{dT_\mu d\uz}$ for $\numub$ incident on mineral oil. This measurement exploits the unprecedented statistics of the MiniBooNE anti-neutrino mode sample and provides the most complete information of this process to date. Also given to facilitate historical comparisons are the flux-unfolded total cross section $\sigma(E_\nu)$ and single-differential cross section $\frac{d\sigma}{d\qsq}$ on both mineral oil and on carbon by subtracting the $\numub$ CCQE events on hydrogen. The observed cross section is somewhat higher than the predicted cross section from a model assuming independently-acting nucleons in carbon with canonical form factor values. The shape of the data are also discrepant with this model. These results have implications for intra-nuclear processes and can help constrain signal and background processes for future neutrino oscillation measurements., Comment: 28 pages, 13 figures. Data release at http://www-boone.fnal.gov/for_physicists/data_release/ccqe_nubar/
Published: 2013
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25. Effects of Climate Change on Wildlife in the Northern Rockies

Author: McKelvey, Kevin S., Buotte, Polly C., Beniston, Martin, Series editor, Halofsky, Jessica E., editor, and Peterson, David L., editor
Published: 2018
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26. Mu2e Conceptual Design Report

Author: Project, The Mu2e, Collaboration, Abrams, R. J., Alezander, D., Ambrosio, G., Andreev, N., Ankenbrandt, C. M., Asner, D. M., Arnold, D., Artikov, A., Barnes, E., Bartoszek, L., Bernstein, R. H., Biery, K., Biliyar, V., Bonicalzi, R., Bossert, R., Bowden, M., Brandt, J., Brown, D. N., Budagov, J., Buehler, M., Burov, A., Carcagno, R., Carey, R. M., Carosi, R., Cascella, M., Cauz, D., Cervelli, F., Chandra, A., Chang, J. K., Cheng, C., Ciambrone, P., Coleman, R. N., Cooper, M., Corcoran, M. C., Cordelli, M., Davydov, Y., de Gouvea, A. L., De Lorenzis, L., Debevec, P. T., DeJongh, F., Densham, C., Deuerling, G., Dey, J., Di Falco, S., Dixon, S., Djilkibaev, R., Drendel, B., Dukes, E. C., Dychkant, A., Echenard, B., Ehrlich, R., Evans, N., Evbota, D., Fang, I., Fast, J. E., Feher, S., Fischler, M., Frank, M., Frlez, E., Fung, S. S., Gallo, G., Galucci, G., Gaponenko, A., Genser, K., Giovannella, S., Glagolev, V., Glenzinski, D., Gnani, D., Goadhouse, S., Gollin, G. D., Grace, C., Grancagnolo, F., Group, C., Hanson, J., Hanson, S., Happacher, F., Heckmaier, E., Hedin, D., Hertzog, D. W., Hirosky, R., Hitlin, D. G., Ho, E., Huang, X., Huedem, E., Hung, P. Q., Hungerford, E. V., Ito, T., Jaskierny, W., Jedziniak, R., Johnson, R. P., Johnstone, C., Johnstone, J. A., Kahn, S. A., Kammel, P., Kang, T. I., Kashikhin, V. S., Kashikhin, V. V., Kasper, P., Kawall, D. M., Khalatian, V., Kim, M., Klebaner, A., Kocen, D., Kolomensky, Y., Kourbanis, I., Kowalkowski, J., Kozminski, J., Krempetz, K., Kumar, K. S., Kutschke, R. K., Kwarciany, R., Lackowski, T., Lamm, M., Larwill, M., Lau, K., Lee, M. J., L'Erario, A., Leveling, T., Lim, G., Lindenmeyer, C., Logashenko, V., Lontadze, T., Lopes, M., Luca, A., Lynch, K. R., Ma, T., Maffezzoli, A., Marciano, W. J., Martini, M., Masayoshi, W., Matushko, V., McAteer, M., McCrady, R., Moccoli, A., Michelotti, L., Miller, J. P., Miscetti, S., Molzon, W., Morgan, J., Mukherjee, A., Nagaitsev, S., Nagaslaev, V., Niehoff, J., Neuffer, D. V., Nicol, T., Norman, A. J., Norris, B., Odell, J., Oh, S., Oksuzian, Y., Onorato, G., Orduna, J., Orris, D., Ostojic, R., Page, T., Paschke, K. D., Pauletta, G., Peterson, T., Piacentino, G. M., Pileggi, G., Pla-Dalmau, A., Pocanic, D., Polly, C. C., Polychronakos, V., Ponzio, B., Popovic, M., Popp, J. L., Porter, F., Presbys, E., Prieto, P., Pronskikh, V., Puccinelli, F., Rabehl, R., Ramsey, J., Ray, R. E., Rechenmacher, R., Rella, S., Ristori, L., Rivera, R., Roberts, B. L., Roberts, T. J., Rubinov, P., Rusu, V. L., Saputi, A., Sarra, I., Smertzidis, Y., Shanahan, P., Simonenko, A., Steward, J., Suslov, I., Sylvester, C., Tang, Z., Tartaglia, M., Tassielli, G., Tereshchenko, V., Theilacker, J., Tompkins, J., Tschirhart, R., Van Zandbergen, G., Vannini, C., Venanzoni, G., von der Lippe, H., Wagner, R., Walder, J. P., Walton, R., Wands, S., Wang, S., Warren, G., Werkema, S., White Jr, H. B., Wielgos, R., Wood, L. S., Woodward, M., Wu, J., Xiao, M., Yamada, R., Yamin, P., Yarritu, K., Yonehara, K., Yoshikawa, C., You, Z., Yu, G., Yurkewicz, A., Zavarise, G., and Zhu, R. Y.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract: Mu2e at Fermilab will search for charged lepton flavor violation via the coherent conversion process mu- N --> e- N with a sensitivity approximately four orders of magnitude better than the current world's best limits for this process. The experiment's sensitivity offers discovery potential over a wide array of new physics models and probes mass scales well beyond the reach of the LHC. We describe herein the conceptual design of the proposed Mu2e experiment. This document was created in partial fulfillment of the requirements necessary to obtain DOE CD-1 approval, which was granted July 11, 2012., Comment: 562 pages, 339 figures
Published: 2012

27. Low Mass WIMP Searches with a Neutrino Experiment: A Proposal for Further MiniBooNE Running

Author: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Batell, B., Cooper, R., deNiverville, P., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Habib, S., Huelsnitz, W., Jiang, C., Johnson, R. A., Ketchum, W., Kobilarcik, T., Louis, W. C., Marsh, W., McKeen, D., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Moore, C. D., Nienaber, P., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Pospelov, M., Ray, H., Ritz, A., Roe, B. P., Stancu, I., Van de Water, R. Tayloe R., and Wickremasinghe, D. A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: A proposal submitted to the FNAL PAC is described to search for light sub-GeV WIMP dark matter at MiniBooNE. The possibility to steer the beam past the target and into an absorber leads to a significant reduction in neutrino background, allowing for a sensitive search for elastic scattering of WIMPs off nucleons or electrons in the detector. Dark matter models involving a vector mediator can be probed in a parameter region consistent with the required thermal relic density, and which overlaps the region in which these models can resolve the muon g-2 discrepancy. Estimates of signal significance are presented for various operational modes and parameter points. The experimental approach outlined for applying MiniBooNE to a light WIMP search may also be applicable to other neutrino facilities., Comment: 27 pages, 18 figures. Proposal submitted to the FNAL PAC Oct 15 2012
Published: 2012

28. Letter of Intent: A new investigation of numu to nue oscillations with improved sensitivity in an enhanced MiniBooNE experiment

Author: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cooper, R., Conrad, J. M., Dharmapalan, R., Ford, R., Djurcic, Z., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Habib, S., Huelsnitz, W., Imlay, R., Jiang, C., Karagiorgi, G., Louis, W. C., Johnson, R. A., Marsh, W., Mauger, C., Mills, G. B., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nienaber, P., Osmanov, B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Shaevitz, M. H., Tayloe, I. Stancu R., Tzanov, M., Van de Water, R., White, D. H., and Wickremasinghe, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We propose adding 300 mg/l PPO to the existing MiniBooNE detector mineral oil to increase the scintillation response. This will allow the detection of associated neutrons and increase sensitivity to final-state nucleons in neutrino interactions. This increased capability will enable an independent test of whether the current excess seen in the MiniBooNE oscillation search is signal or background. In addition it will enable other neutrino interaction measurements to be made including a search for the strange-quark contribution to the nucleon spin Delta s and a low-energy measurement of charged-current quasielastic scattering., Comment: 27 pages, 12 figures, Letter of intent submitted to Fermilab for consideration, 10/12
Published: 2012

29. Dual baseline search for muon antineutrino disappearance at 0.1 eV^2 < {\Delta}m^2 < 100 eV^2

Author: MiniBooNE Collaboration, SciBooNE Collaboration, Cheng, G., Huelsnitz, W., Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Alcaraz-Aunion, J. L., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Catala-Perez, J., Church, E. D., Conrad, J. M., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Dore, U., Finley, D. A., Ford, R., Franke, A. J., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Giganti, C., Gomez-Cadenas, J. J., Grange, J., Guzowski, P., Hanson, A., Hayato, Y., Hiraide, K., Ignarra, C., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Jones, B. J. P., Jover-Manas, G., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobayashi, Y. K., Kobilarcik, T., Kubo, H., Kurimoto, Y., Louis, W. C., Loverre, P. F., Ludovici, L., Mahn, K. B. M., Mariani, C., Marsh, W., Masuike, S., Matsuoka, K., McGary, V. T., Metcalf, W., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Mitsuka, G., Miyachi, Y., Mizugashira, S., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nakajima, Y., Nakaya, T., Napora, R., Nienaber, P., Orme, D., Osmanov, B., Otani, M., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Sanchez, F., Shaevitz, M. H., Shibata, T. -A., Sorel, M., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Takei, H., Tanaka, H. -K., Tanaka, M., Tayloe, R., Taylor, I. J., Tesarek, R. J., Uchida, Y., Van de Water, R. G., Walding, J. J., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., White, H. B., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Yokoyama, M., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The MiniBooNE and SciBooNE collaborations report the results of a joint search for short baseline disappearance of \bar{{\nu}_{\mu}} at Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beamline. The MiniBooNE Cherenkov detector and the SciBooNE tracking detector observe antineutrinos from the same beam, therefore the combined analysis of their datasets serves to partially constrain some of the flux and cross section uncertainties. Uncertainties in the {\nu}_{\mu} background were constrained by neutrino flux and cross section measurements performed in both detectors. A likelihood ratio method was used to set a 90% confidence level upper limit on \bar{{\nu}_{\mu}} disappearance that dramatically improves upon prior limits in the {\Delta}m^2=0.1-100 eV^2 region., Comment: 15 pages, 27 figures
Published: 2012
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30. A Combined $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ and $\bar\nu_\mu \to \bar\nu_e$ Oscillation Analysis of the MiniBooNE Excesses

Author: MiniBooNE Collaboration, Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cheng, G., Church, E. D., Conrad, J. M., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Huelsnitz, W., Ignarra, C., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Louis, W. C., Mariani, C., Marsh, W., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nienaber, P., Osmanov, B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Shaevitz, M. H., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Tayloe, R., Van de Water, R. G., White, D. H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of the combined $\nu_e$ and $\bar \nu_e$ appearance data from $6.46 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in neutrino mode and $11.27 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in antineutrino mode. A total excess of $240.3 \pm 34.5 \pm 52.6$ events ($3.8 \sigma$) is observed from combining the two data sets in the energy range $200
Published: 2012

31. Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier

Author: Hewett, J. L., Weerts, H., Brock, R., Butler, J. N., Casey, B. C. K., Collar, J., de Gouvea, A., Essig, R., Grossman, Y., Haxton, W., Jaros, J. A., Jung, C. K., Lu, Z. T., Pitts, K., Ligeti, Z., Patterson, J. R., Ramsey-Musolf, M., Ritchie, J. L., Roodman, A., Scholberg, K., Wagner, C. E. M., Zeller, G. P., Aefsky, S., Afanasev, A., Agashe, K., Albright, C., Alonso, J., Ankenbrandt, C., Aoki, M., Arguelles, C. A., Arkani-Hamed, N., Armendariz, J. R., Armendariz-Picon, C., Diaz, E. Arrieta, Asaadi, J., Asner, D. M., Babu, K. S., Bailey, K., Baker, O., Balantekin, B., Baller, B., Bass, M., Batell, B., Beacham, J., Behr, J., Berger, N., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Bernstein, R., Bevan, A. J., Bishai, M., Blanke, M., Blessing, S., Blondel, A., Blum, T., Bock, G., Bodek, A., Bonvicini, G., Bossi, F., Boyce, J., Breedon, R., Breidenbach, M., Brice, S. J., Briere, R. A., Brodsky, S., Bromberg, C., Bross, A., Browder, T. E., Bryman, D. A., Buckley, M., Burnstein, R., Caden, E., Campana, P., Carlini, R., Carosi, G., Castromonte, C., Cenci, R., Chakaberia, I., Chen, M. C., Cheng, C. H., Choudhary, B., Christ, N. H., Christensen, E., Christy, M. E., Chupp, T. E., Church, E., Cline, D. B., Coan, T. E., Coloma, P., Comfort, J., Coney, L., Cooper, J., Cooper, R. J., Cowan, R., Cowen, D. F., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Datta, A., Davies, G. S., Demarteau, M., DeMille, D. P., Denig, A., Dermisek, R., Deshpande, A., Dewey, M. S., Dharmapalan, R., Dhooghe, J., Dietrich, M. R., Diwan, M., Djurcic, Z., Dobbs, S., Duraisamy, M., Dutta, B., Duyang, H., Dwyer, D. A., Eads, M., Echenard, B., Elliott, S. R., Escobar, C., Fajans, J., Farooq, S., Faroughy, C., Fast, J. E., Feinberg, B., Felde, J., Feldman, G., Fierlinger, P., Perez, P. Fileviez, Filippone, B., Fisher, P., Flemming, B. T., Flood, K. T., Forty, R., Frank, M. J., Freyberger, A., Friedland, A., Gandhi, R., Ganezer, K. S., Garcia, A., Garcia, F. G., Gardner, S., Garrison, L., Gasparian, A., Geer, S., Gehman, V. M., Gershon, T., Gilchriese, M., Ginsberg, C., Gogoladze, I., Gonderinger, M., Goodman, M., Gould, H., Graham, M., Graham, P. W., Gran, R., Grange, J., Gratta, G., Green, J. P., Greenlee, H., Group, R. C., Guardincerri, E., Gudkov, V., Guenette, R., Haas, A., Hahn, A., Han, T., Handler, T., Hardy, J. C., Harnik, R., Harris, D. A., Harris, F. A., Harris, P. G., Hartnett, J., He, B., Heckel, B. R., Heeger, K. M., Henderson, S., Hertzog, D., Hill, R., Hinds, E. A, Hitlin, D. G., Holt, R. J., Holtkamp, N., Horton-Smith, G., Huber, P., Huelsnitz, W., Imber, J., Irastorza, I., Jaeckel, J., Jaegle, I., James, C., Jawahery, A., Jensen, D., Jessop, C. P., Jones, B., Jostlein, H., Junk, T., Kagan, A. L., Kalita, M., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D. M., Karagiorgi, G., Karle, A., Katori, T., Kayser, B., Kephart, R., Kettell, S., Kim, Y. K., Kirby, M., Kirch, K., Klein, J., Kneller, J., Kobach, A., Kohl, M., Kopp, J., Kordosky, M., Korsch, W., Kourbanis, I., Krisch, A. D., Krizan, P., Kronfeld, A. S., Kulkarni, S., Kumar, K. S., Kuno, Y., Kutter, T., Lachenmaier, T., Lamm, M., Lancaster, J., Lancaster, M., Lane, C., Lang, K., Langacker, P., Lazarevic, S., Le, T., Lee, K., Lesko, K. T., Li, Y., Lindgren, M., Lindner, A., Link, J., Lissauer, D., Littenberg, L. S., Littlejohn, B., Liu, C. Y., Loinaz, W., Lorenzon, W., Louis, W. C., Lozier, J., Ludovici, L., Lueking, L., Lunardini, C., MacFarlane, D. B., Machado, P. A. N., Mackenzie, P. B., Maloney, J., Marciano, W. J., Marsh, W., Marshak, M., Martin, J. W., Mauger, C., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., McLaughlin, G., McKeen, D., McKeown, R., Meadows, B. T., Mehdiyev, R., Melconian, D., Merkel, H., Messier, M., Miller, J. P., Mills, G., Minamisono, U. K., Mishra, S. R., Mocioiu, I., Sher, S. Moed, Mohapatra, R. N., Monreal, B., Moore, C. D., Morfin, J. G., Mousseau, J., Moustakas, L. A., Mueller, G., Mueller, P., Muether, M., Mumm, H. P., Munger, C., Murayama, H., Nath, P., Naviliat-Cuncin, O., Nelson, J. K., Neuffer, D., Nico, J. S., Norman, A., Nygren, D., Obayashi, Y., O'Connor, T. P., Okada, Y., Olsen, J., Orozco, L., Orrell, J. L., Osta, J., Pahlka, B., Paley, J., Papadimitriou, V., Papucci, M., Parke, S., Parker, R. H., Parsa, Z., Partyka, K., Patch, A., Pati, J. C., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Paz, G., Perdue, G. N., Perevalov, D., Perez, G., Petti, R., Pettus, W., Piepke, A., Pivovaroff, M., Plunkett, R., Polly, C. C., Pospelov, M., Povey, R., Prakesh, A., Purohit, M. V., Raby, S., Raaf, J. L., Rajendran, R., Rajendran, S., Rameika, G., Ramsey, R., Rashed, A., Ratcliff, B. N., Rebel, B., Redondo, J., Reimer, P., Reitzner, D., Ringer, F., Ringwald, A., Riordan, S., Roberts, B. L., Roberts, D. A., Robertson, R., Robicheaux, F., Rominsky, M., Roser, R., Rosner, J. L., Rott, C., Rubin, P., Saito, N., Sanchez, M., Sarkar, S., Schellman, H., Schmidt, B., Schmitt, M., Schmitz, D. W., Schneps, J., Schopper, A., Schuster, P., Schwartz, A. J., Schwarz, M., Seeman, J., Semertzidis, Y. K., Seth, K. K., Shafi, Q., Shanahan, P., Sharma, R., Sharpe, S. R., Shiozawa, M., Shiltsev, V., Sigurdson, K., Sikivie, P., Singh, J., Sivers, D., Skwarnicki, T., Smith, N., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Song, Y. H., Soni, A., Souder, P., Sousa, A., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., Stavenga, G. C., Steffen, J. H., Stepanyan, S., Stoeckinger, D., Stone, S., Strait, J., Strassler, M., Sulai, I. A., Sundrum, R., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A., Takeuchi, T., Tanedo, P., Taneja, S., Tang, J., Tanner, D. B., Tayloe, R., Taylor, I., Thomas, J., Thorn, C., Tian, X., Tice, B. G., Tobar, M., Tolich, N., Toro, N., Towner, I. S., Tsai, Y., Tschirhart, R., Tunnell, C. D., Tzanov, M., Upadhye, A., Urheim, J., Vahsen, S., Vainshtein, A., Valencia, E., Van de Water, R. G., Van de Water, R. S., Velasco, M., Vogel, J., Vogel, P., Vogelsang, W., Wah, Y. W., Walker, D., Weiner, N., Weltman, A., Wendell, R., Wester, W., Wetstein, M., White, C., Whitehead, L., Whitmore, J., Widmann, E., Wiedemann, G., Wilkerson, J., Wilkinson, G., Wilson, P., Wilson, R. J., Winter, W., Wise, M. B., Wodin, J., Wojcicki, S., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wongjirad, T., Worcester, E., Wurtele, J., Xin, T., Xu, J., Yamanaka, T., Yamazaki, Y., Yavin, I., Yeck, J., Yeh, M., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Young, A., Zimmerman, E., Zioutas, K., Zisman, M., Zupan, J., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of heavy quarks, charged leptons, neutrinos, proton decay, new light weakly-coupled particles, and nucleons, nuclei, and atoms., Comment: 229 pages
Published: 2012

32. The 2010 Interim Report of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Collaboration Physics Working Groups

Author: The LBNE Collaboration, Akiri, T., Allspach, D., Andrews, M., Arisaka, K., Arrieta-Diaz, E., Artuso, M., Bai, X., Balantekin, B., Baller, B., Barletta, W., Barr, G., Bass, M., Beck, A., Becker, B., Bellini, V., Benhar, O., Berger, B., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Berns, H., Bernstein, A., Beroz, F., Bhatnagar, V., Bhuyan, B., Bionta, R., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Blaufuss, E., Bleakley, B., Blucher, E., Blusk, S., Boehnlein, D., Bolton, T., Brack, J., Bradford, R., Breedon, R., Bromberg, C., Brown, R., Buchanan, N., Camilleri, L., Campbell, M., Carr, R., Carminati, G., Chen, A., Chen, H., Cherdack, D., Chi, C., Childress, S., Choudhary, B., Church, E., Cline, D., Coleman, S., Corey, R., D'Agostino, M., Davies, G., Dazeley, S., De Jong, J., DeMaat, B., Demuth, D., Dighe, A., Djurcic, Z., Dolph, J., Drake, G., Drozhdin, A., Duan, H., Duyang, H., Dye, S., Dykhuis, T., Edmunds, D., Elliott, S., Enomoto, S., Escobar, C., Felde, J., Feyzi, F., Fleming, B., Fowler, J., Fox, W., Friedland, A., Fujikawa, B., Gallagher, H., Garilli, G., Garvey, G., Gehman, V., Geronimo, G., Gill, R., Goodman, M., Goon, J., Gorbunov, D., Gran, R., Guarino, V., Guarnaccia, E., Guenette, R., Gupta, P., Habig, A., Hackenberg, R., Hahn, A., Hahn, R., Haines, T., Hans, S., Harton, J., Hays, S., Hazen, E., He, Q., Heavey, A., Heeger, K., Hellauer, R., Himmel, A., Horton-Smith, G., Howell, J., Huber, P., Hurh, P., Huston, J., Hylen, J., Insler, J., Jaffe, D., James, C., Johnson, C., Johnson, M., Johnson, R., Johnson, W., Johnston, W., Johnstone, J., Jones, B., Jostlein, H., Junk, T., Junnarkar, S., Kadel, R., Kafka, T., Kaminski, D., Karagiorgi, G., Karle, A., Kaspar, J., Katori, T., Kayser, B., Kearns, E., Kettell, S., Khanam, F., Klein, J., Kneller, J., Koizumi, G., Kopp, J., Kopp, S., Kropp, W., Kudryavtsev, V., Kumar, A., Kumar, J., Kutter, T., Lackowski, T., Lande, K., Lane, C., Lang, K., Lanni, F., Lanza, R., Latorre, T., Learned, J., Lee, D., Lee, K., Li, Y., Linden, S., Ling, J., Link, J., Littenberg, L., Loiacono, L., Liu, T., Losecco, J., Louis, W., Lucas, P., Lunardini, C., Lundberg, B., Lundin, T., Makowiecki, D., Malys, S., Mandal, S., Mann, A., Mantsch, P., Marciano, W., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Marino, A., Marshak, M., Maruyama, R., Mathews, J., Matsuno, S., Mauger, C., McCluskey, E., McDonald, K., McFarland, K., McKeown, R., McTaggart, R., Mehdiyev, R., Melnitchouk, W., Meng, Y., Mercurio, B., Messier, M., Metcalf, W., Milincic, R., Miller, W., Mills, G., Mishra, S., MoedSher, S., Mohapatra, D., Mokhov, N., Moore, C., Morfin, J., Morse, W., Moss, A., Mufson, S., Musser, J., Naples, D., Napolitano, J., Newcomer, M., Norris, B., Ouedraogo, S., Page, B., Pakvasa, S., Paley, J., Paolone, V., Papadimitriou, V., Parsa, Z., Partyka, K., Pavlovic, Z., Pearson, C., Perasso, S., Petti, R., Plunkett, R., Polly, C., Pordes, S., Potenza, R., Prakash, A., Prokofiev, O., Qian, X., Raaf, J., Radeka, V., Raghavan, R., Rameika, R., Rebel, B., Rescia, S., Reitzner, D., Richardson, M., Riesselman, K., Robinson, M., Rosen, M., Rosenfeld, C., Rucinski, R., Russo, T., Sahijpal, S., Salon, S., Samios, N., Sanchez, M., Schmitt, R., Schmitz, D., Schneps, J., Scholberg, K., Seibert, S., Sergiampietri, F., Shaevitz, M., Shanahan, P., Shaposhnikov, M., Sharma, R., Simos, N., Singh, V., Sinnis, G., Sippach, W., Skwarnicki, T., Smy, M., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Sondericker, J., Sondheim, W., Spitz, J., Spooner, N., Stancari, M., Stancu, I., Stewart, J., Stoler, P., Stone, J., Stone, S., Strait, J., Straszheim, T., Striganov, S., Sullivan, G., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A., Talaga, R., Tanaka, H., Tayloe, R., Taylor, D., Thomas, J., Thompson, L., Thomson, M., Thorn, C., Tian, X., Toki, W., Tolich, N., Tripathi, M., Trovato, M., Tseung, H., Tzanov, M., Urheim, J., Usman, S., Vagins, M., Van Berg, R., Van de Water, R., Varner, G., Vaziri, K., Velev, G., Viren, B., Wachala, T., Walter, C., Wang, H., Wang, Z., Warner, D., Webber, D., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wendt, C., Wetstein, M., White, H., White, S., Whitehead, L., Willis, W., Wilson, R. J., Winslow, L., Ye, J., Yeh, M., Yu, B., Zeller, G., Zhang, C., Zimmerman, E., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: In early 2010, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) science collaboration initiated a study to investigate the physics potential of the experiment with a broad set of different beam, near- and far-detector configurations. Nine initial topics were identified as scientific areas that motivate construction of a long-baseline neutrino experiment with a very large far detector. We summarize the scientific justification for each topic and the estimated performance for a set of far detector reference configurations. We report also on a study of optimized beam parameters and the physics capability of proposed Near Detector configurations. This document was presented to the collaboration in fall 2010 and updated with minor modifications in early 2011., Comment: Corresponding author R.J.Wilson (Bob.Wilson@colostate.edu); 113 pages, 90 figures
Published: 2011

33. Cathode Position Response of Large-Area Photomultipliers Under a Magnetic Field

Author: Koblesky, T., Roloff, J., Polly, C., and Peng, J. C.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: With the increasingly common use of large area PMTs (photomultiplier tubes) for nuclear and particle physics experiments, information on the position dependent magnetic field effects across the PMT's photocathode is important to effectively analyze and understand data collected from PMTs. Using an automated two-dimensional scanner, we have measured the PMT response to an external magnetic field as a function of the cathode position impinged by a collimated light source. This study shows a clear dependence on the cathode position in both collection efficiency and gain of the PMT in the presence of a magnetic field. In particular, a pronounced valley in the collection efficiency is observed for certain locations of the cathode when the magnetic field is transverse to the PMT axis. The pattern of the position dependence is presented for several different magnitudes and orientations of the magnetic field relative to the PMT., Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2011
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34. Test of Lorentz and CPT violation with Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Excesses

Author: The MiniBooNE Collaboration, Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Anderson, C. E., Bazarko, A. O., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Coney, L., Conrad, J. M., Cox, D. C., Curioni, A., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fleming, B. T., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Green, C., Green, J. A., Hart, T. L., Hawker, E., Huelsnitz, W., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E. M., Linden, S. K., Link, J. M., Liu, Y., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K. B. M., Marsh, W., Mauger, C., McGary, V. T., McGregor, G., Metcalf, W., Meyers, P. D., Mills, F., Mills, G. B., Monroe, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nelson, R. H., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J. A., Osmanov, B., Ouedraogo, S., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Prebys, E., Raaf, J. L., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Sandberg, V., Schirato, R., Schmitz, D., Shaevitz, M. H., Shoemaker, F. C., Smith, D., Soderberg, M., Sorel, M., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Sung, M., Tanaka, H. A., Tayloe, R., Tzanov, M., Van de Water, R. G., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wilking, M. J., Yang, H. J., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: The sidereal time dependence of MiniBooNE electron neutrino and anti-electron neutrino appearance data are analyzed to search for evidence of Lorentz and CPT violation. An unbinned Kolmogorov-Smirnov test shows both the electron neutrino and anti-electron neutrino appearance data are compatible with the null sidereal variation hypothesis to more than 5%. Using an unbinned likelihood fit with a Lorentz-violating oscillation model derived from the Standard Model Extension (SME) to describe any excess events over background, we find that the electron neutrino appearance data prefer a sidereal time-independent solution, and the anti-electron neutrino appearance data slightly prefer a sidereal time-dependent solution. Limits of order 10E-20 GeV are placed on combinations of SME coefficients. These limits give the best limits on certain SME coefficients for muon neutrino to electron neutrino and anti-muon neutrino to anti-electron neutrino oscillations. The fit values and limits of combinations of SME coefficients are provided., Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, and 2 tables, submitted to Physics Letters B
Published: 2011
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35. Dual baseline search for muon neutrino disappearance at 0.5 eV^2 < \Delta m^2 < 40 eV^2

Author: MiniBooNE, Collaborations, SciBooNE, Mahn, K. B. M., Nakajima, Y., Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Alcaraz-Aunion, J. L., Anderson, C. E., Bazarko, A. O., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Catala-Perez, J., Cheng, G., Coney, L., Conrad, J. M., Cox, D. C., Curioni, A., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Dore, U., Finley, D. A., Fleming, B. T., Ford, R., Franke, A. J., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Giganti, C., Gomez-Cadenas, J. J., Grange, J., Green, C., Green, J. A., Guzowski, P., Hanson, A., Hart, T. L., Hawker, E., Hayato, Y., Hiraide, K., Huelsnitz, W., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Jones, B. J. P., Jover-Manas, G., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobayashi, Y. K., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Kubo, H., Kurimoto, Y., Laird, E. M., Linden, S. K., Link, J. M., Liu, Y., Louis, W. C., Loverre, P. F., Ludovici, L., Mariani, C., Marsh, W., Masuike, S., Matsuoka, K., Mauger, C., McGary, V. T., McGregor, G., Metcalf, W., Meyers, P. D., Mills, F., Mills, G. B., Mitsuka, G., Miyachi, Y., Mizugashira, S., Monroe, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nakaya, T., Napora, R., Nelson, R. H., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J. A., Orme, D., Osmanov, B., Otani, M., Ouedraogo, S., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Prebys, E., Raaf, J. L., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Sanchez, F., Sandberg, V., Schirato, R., Schmitz, D., Shaevitz, M. H., Shibata, T. -A., Shoemaker, F. C., Smith, D., Soderberg, M., Sorel, M., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Sung, M., Takei, H., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, H. -K., Tanaka, M., Tayloe, R., Taylor, I. J., Tesarek, R. J., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Van de Water, R., Walding, J. J., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., White, H. B., Wilking, M. J., Yokoyama, M., Yang, H. J., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The SciBooNE and MiniBooNE collaborations report the results of a \nu_\mu disappearance search in the \Delta m^2 region of 0.5-40 eV^2. The neutrino rate as measured by the SciBooNE tracking detectors is used to constrain the rate at the MiniBooNE Cherenkov detector in the first joint analysis of data from both collaborations. Two separate analyses of the combined data samples set 90% confidence level (CL) limits on \nu_\mu disappearance in the 0.5-40 eV^2 \Delta m^2 region, with an improvement over previous experimental constraints between 10 and 30 eV^2., Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures. Re-submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2011
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36. Measurement of the neutrino component of an anti-neutrino beam observed by a non-magnetized detector

Author: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Anderson, C. E., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Conrad, J. M., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Fleming, B. T., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Green, J. A., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Linden, S. K., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K. B. M., Marsh, W., Mauger, C., Metcalf, W., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nelson, R. H., Nguyen, V., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J. A., Osmanov, B., Patch, A., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Shaevitz, M. H., Sorel, M., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Tayloe, R., Tzanov, M., Van de Water, R. G., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wilking, M. J., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Two independent methods are employed to measure the neutrino flux of the anti-neutrino-mode beam observed by the MiniBooNE detector. The first method compares data to simulated event rates in a high purity $\numu$ induced charged-current single $\pip$ (CC1$\pip$) sample while the second exploits the difference between the angular distributions of muons created in $\numu$ and $\numub$ charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) interactions. The results from both analyses indicate the prediction of the neutrino flux component of the pre-dominately anti-neutrino beam is over-estimated - the CC1$\pip$ analysis indicates the predicted $\numu$ flux should be scaled by $0.76 \pm 0.11$, while the CCQE angular fit yields $0.65 \pm 0.23$. The energy spectrum of the flux prediction is checked by repeating the analyses in bins of reconstructed neutrino energy, and the results show that the spectral shape is well modeled. These analyses are a demonstration of techniques for measuring the neutrino contamination of anti-neutrino beams observed by future non-magnetized detectors., Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, published in Physical Review D, latest version reflects changes from referee comments
Published: 2011
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37. Measurement of Neutrino-Induced Charged-Current Charged Pion Production Cross Sections on Mineral Oil at E$_{\nu}\sim 1~\textrm{GeV}$

Author: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Anderson, C. E., Bazarko, A. O., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Coney, L., Conrad, J. M., Cox, D. C., Curioni, A., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fleming, B. T., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Green, C., Green, J. A., Hart, T. L., Hawker, E., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E. M., Linden, S. K., Link, J. M., Liu, Y., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K. B. M., Marsh, W., Mauger, C., McGary, V. T., McGregor, G., Metcalf, W., Meyers, P. D., Mills, F., Mills, G. B., Monroe, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nelson, R. H., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J. A., Osmanov, B., Ouedraogo, S., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Prebys, E., Raaf, J. L., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Sandberg, V., Schirato, R., Schmitz, D., Shaevitz, M. H., Shoemaker, F. C., Smith, D., Soderberg, M., Sorel, M., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Sung, M., Tanaka, H. A., Tayloe, R., Tzanov, M., Van de Water, R. G., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wilking, M. J., Yang, H. J., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Using a high-statistics, high-purity sample of $\nu_\mu$-induced charged current, charged pion events in mineral oil (CH$_2$), MiniBooNE reports a collection of interaction cross sections for this process. This includes measurements of the CC$\pi^+$ cross section as a function of neutrino energy, as well as flux-averaged single- and double-differential cross sections of the energy and direction of both the final-state muon and pion. In addition, each of the single-differential cross sections are extracted as a function of neutrino energy to decouple the shape of the MiniBooNE energy spectrum from the results. In many cases, these cross sections are the first time such quantities have been measured on a nuclear target and in the 1 GeV energy range., Comment: 29 pages and 28 figures
Published: 2010
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38. Measurement of $\nu_\mu$-induced charged-current neutral pion production cross sections on mineral oil at $E_\nu\in0.5-2.0$ GeV

Author: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Anderson, C. E., Bazarko, A. O., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Coney, L., Conrad, J. M., Cox, D. C., Curioni, A., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fleming, B. T., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Green, C., Green, J. A., Hart, T. L., Hawker, E., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E. M., Linden, S. K., Link, J. M., Liu, Y., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K. B. M., Marsh, W., Mauger, C., McGary, V. T., McGregor, G., Metcalf, W., Meyers, P. D., Mills, F., Mills, G. B., Monroe, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nelson, R. H., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J. A., Osmanov, B., Ouedraogo, S., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Prebys, E., Raaf, J. L., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Sandberg, V., Schirato, R., Schmitz, D., Shaevitz, M. H., Shoemaker, F. C., Smith, D., Soderberg, M., Sorel, M., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Sung, M., Tanaka, H. A., Tayloe, R., Tzanov, M., VandeWater, R. G., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wilking, M. J., Yang, H. J., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Using a custom 3 \v{C}erenkov-ring fitter, we report cross sections for $\nu_\mu$-induced charged-current single $\pi^0$ production on mineral oil (\chtwo) from a sample of 5810 candidate events with 57% signal purity over an energy range of $0.5-2.0$GeV. This includes measurements of the absolute total cross section as a function of neutrino energy, and flux-averaged differential cross sections measured in terms of $Q^2$, $\mu^-$ kinematics, and $\pi^0$ kinematics. The sample yields a flux-averaged total cross section of $(9.2\pm0.3_{stat.}\pm1.5_{syst.})\times10^{-39}$cm$^2$/CH$_2$ at mean neutrino energy of 0.965GeV., Comment: 21 pages, 14 figures, and 11 tables
Published: 2010
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39. First Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Charged Current Quasielastic Double Differential Cross Section

Author: MiniBooNE Collaboration, Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Anderson, C. E., Bazarko, A. O., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Coney, L., Conrad, J. M., Cox, D. C., Curioni, A., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fleming, B. T., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Green, C., Green, J. A., Hart, T. L., Hawker, E., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E. M., Linden, S. K., Link, J. M., Liu, Y., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K. B. M., Marsh, W., Mauger, C., McGary, V. T., McGregor, G., Metcalf, W., Meyers, P. D., Mills, F., Mills, G. B., Monroe, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nelson, R. H., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J. A., Osmanov, B., Ouedraogo, S., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Prebys, E., Raaf, J. L., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Sandberg, V., Schirato, R., Schmitz, D., Shaevitz, M. H., Shoemaker, F. C., Smith, D., Soderberg, M., Sorel, M., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Sung, M., Tanaka, H. A., Tayloe, R., Tzanov, M., Van de Water, R. G., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wilking, M. J., Yang, H. J., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A high-statistics sample of charged-current muon neutrino scattering events collected with the MiniBooNE experiment is analyzed to extract the first measurement of the double differential cross section ($\frac{d^2\sigma}{dT_\mu d\cos\theta_\mu}$) for charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) scattering on carbon. This result features minimal model dependence and provides the most complete information on this process to date. With the assumption of CCQE scattering, the absolute cross section as a function of neutrino energy ($\sigma[E_\nu]$) and the single differential cross section ($\frac{d\sigma}{dQ^2}$) are extracted to facilitate comparison with previous measurements. These quantities may be used to characterize an effective axial-vector form factor of the nucleon and to improve the modeling of low-energy neutrino interactions on nuclear targets. The results are relevant for experiments searching for neutrino oscillations., Comment: 22 pages, 16 figures, published in Physical Review D, latest version to reflect changes in PRD editing
Published: 2010
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40. Measurement of \nu_\mu and \bar\nu_\mu induced neutral current single $\pi^0$ production cross sections on mineral oil at E_\nu O(1 GeV)

Author: The MiniBooNE Collaboration, Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Anderson, C. E., Bazarko, A. O., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Coney, L., Conrad, J. M., Cox, D. C., Curioni, A., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fleming, B. T., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Gonzales, J., Grange, J., Green, C., Green, J. A., Hart, T. L., Hawker, E., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E. M., Linden, S. K., Link, J. M., Liu, Y., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K. B. M., Marsh, W., Mauger, C., McGary, V. T., McGregor, G., Metcalf, W., Meyers, P. D., Mills, F., Mills, G. B., Monroe, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nelson, R. H., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J. A., Osmanov, B., Ouedraogo, S., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Prebys, E., Raaf, J. L., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Sandberg, V., Schirato, R., Schmitz, D., Shaevitz, M. H., Shoemaker, F. C., Smith, D., Soderberg, M., Sorel, M., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Sung, M., Tanaka, H. A., Tayloe, R., Tzanov, M., Van de Water, R. G., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wilking, M. J., Yang, H. J., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: MiniBooNE reports the first absolute cross sections for neutral current single \pi^0 production on CH_2 induced by neutrino and antineutrino interactions measured from the largest sets of NC \pi^0 events collected to date. The principal result consists of differential cross sections measured as functions of \pi^0 momentum and \pi^0 angle averaged over the neutrino flux at MiniBooNE. We find total cross sections of (4.76+/-0.05_{stat}+/-0.76_{sys})*10^{-40} cm^2/nucleon at a mean energy of =808 MeV and (1.48+/-0.05_{stat}+/-0.23_{sys})*10^{-40} cm^2/nucleon at a mean energy of =664 MeV for \nu_\mu and \bar\nu_\mu induced production, respectively. In addition, we have included measurements of the neutrino and antineutrino total cross sections for incoherent exclusive NC 1\pi^0 production corrected for the effects of final state interactions to compare to prior results., Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables
Published: 2009
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41. Measurement of the \nu_\mu charged current \pi^+ to quasi-elastic cross section ratio on mineral oil in a 0.8 GeV neutrino beam

Author: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Anderson, C. E., Bazarko, A. O., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Buge, L., Cao, J., Coney, L., Conrad, J. M., Cox, D. C., Curioni, A., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fleming, B. T., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Green, C., Green, J. A., Hart, T. L., Hawker, E., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E. M., Linden, S. K., Link, J. M., Liu, Y., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K. B. M., Marsh, W., McGary, V. T., McGregor, G., Metcalf, W., Meyers, P. D., Mills, F., Mills, G. B., Monroe, J., Moore, C. D., Nelson, R. H., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J. A., Osmanov, B., Ouedraogo, S., Patterson, R. B., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Prebys, E., Raaf, J. L., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Sandberg, V., Schirato, R., Schmitz, D., Shaevitz, M. H., Shoemaker, F. C., Smith, D., Soderberg, M., Sorel, M., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Sung, M., Tanaka, H. A., Tayloe, R., Tzanov, M., Van de Water, R., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wilking, M. J., Yang, H. J., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Using high statistics samples of charged current $\nu_\mu$ interactions, MiniBooNE reports a measurement of the single charged pion production to quasi-elastic cross section ratio on mineral oil (CH$_2$), both with and without corrections for hadron re-interactions in the target nucleus. The result is provided as a function of neutrino energy in the range 0.4 GeV $< E_\nu <$ 2.4 GeV with 11% precision in the region of highest statistics. The results are consistent with previous measurements and the prediction from historical neutrino calculations., Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2009
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42. Light-weight flexible magnetic shields for large-aperture photomultiplier tubes

Author: Devore, P, Escontrias, D, Koblesky, T, Lin, CJ, Liu, DW, Luk, KB, Ngan, J, Peng, JC, Polly, C, Roloff, J, Steiner, H, Wang, S, Wong, J, and Yeh, M
Subjects: Magnetic shield, Photomultiplier tube, FINEMET, physics.ins-det, astro-ph.IM, hep-ex, nucl-ex, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Other Physical Sciences
Abstract: Thin flexible sheets of high-permeability FINEMET® foils encased in thin plastic layers have been used to shield various types of 20-cm-diameter photomultiplier tubes from ambient magnetic fields. In the presence of the Earth's magnetic field this type of shielding is shown to increase the collection efficiency of photoelectrons and can improve the uniformity of response of these photomultiplier tubes. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
Published: 2014

43. Vulnerability of northern rocky mountain forests under future drought, fire, and harvest

Author: Stenzel, Jeffrey E., primary, Kolden, Crystal A., additional, Buotte, Polly C., additional, Bartowitz, Kristina J., additional, Walsh, Eric W., additional, and Hudiburg, Tara W., additional
Published: 2023
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44. An Improved Limit on the Muon Electric Dipole Moment

Author: Bennett, G. W., Bousquet, B., Brown, H. N., Bunce, G., Carey, R. M., Cushman, P., Danby, G. T., Debevec, P. T., Deile, M., Deng, H., Deninger, W., Dhawan, S. K., Druzhinin, V. P., Duong, L., Efstathiadis, E., Farley, F. J. M., Fedotovich, G. V., Giron, S., Gray, F. E., Grigoriev, D., Grosse-Perdekamp, M., Grossmann, A., Hare, M. F., Hertzog, D. W., Huang, X., Hughes, V. W., Iwasaki, M., Jungmann, K., Kawall, D., Kawamura, M., Khazin, B. I., Kindem, J., Krienen, F., Kronkvist, I., Lam, A., Larsen, R., Lee, Y. Y., Logashenko, I., McNabb, R., Meng, W., Mi, J., Miller, J. P., Mizumachi, Y., Morse, W. M., Nikas, D., Onderwater, C. J. G., Orlov, Y., Ozben, C. S., Paley, J. M., Peng, Q., Polly, C. C., Pretz, J., Prigl, R., Putlitz, G. zu, Qian, T., Redin, S. I., Rind, O., Roberts, B. L., Ryskulov, N., Sedykh, S., Semertzidis, Y. K., Shagin, P., Shatunov, Yu. M., Sichtermann, E. P., Solodov, E., Sossong, M., Steinmetz, A., Sulak, L. R., Timmermans, C., Trofimov, A., Urner, D., von Walter, P., Warburton, D., Winn, D., Yamamoto, A., and Zimmerman, D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Three independent searches for an electric dipole moment (EDM) of the positive and negative muons have been performed, using spin precession data from the muon g-2 storage ring at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Details on the experimental apparatus and the three analyses are presented. Since the individual results on the positive and negative muon, as well as the combined result, d=-0.1(0.9)E-19 e-cm, are all consistent with zero, we set a new muon EDM limit, |d| < 1.9E-19 e-cm (95% C.L.). This represents a factor of 5 improvement over the previous best limit on the muon EDM., Comment: 19 pages, 15 figures, 7 tables
Published: 2008
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45. First Measurement of $\nu_\mu$ and $\nu_e$ Events in an Off-Axis Horn-Focused Neutrino Beam

Author: Adamson, P., Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Anderson, C. E., Bazarko, A. O., Bishai, M., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Choudhary, B. C., Coney, L., Conrad, J. M., Cox, D. C., Curioni, A., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fleming, B. T., Ford, R., Gallagher, H. R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Green, C., Green, J. A., Harris, D., Hart, T. L., Hawker, E., Hylen, J., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kopp, S., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E. M., Linden, S. K., Link, J. M., Liu, Y., Loiacono, L., Louis, W. C., Marchionni, A., Mahn, K. B. M., Marsh, W., McGregor, G., Messier, M. D., Metcalf, W., Meyers, P. D., Mills, F., Mills, G. B., Monroe, J., Moore, C. D., Nelson, J. K., Nelson, R. H., Nguyen, V. T., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J. A., Ouedraogo, S., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Prebys, E., Raaf, J. L., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Sandberg, V., Schirato, R., Schmitz, D., Shaevitz, M. H., Shoemaker, F. C., Smart, W., Smith, D., Sodeberg, M., Sorel, M., Spentzouris, P., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Sung, M., Tanaka, H. A., Tayloe, R., Tzanov, M., Vahle, P., Van de Water, R., Viren, B., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wilking, M. J., Yang, H. J., Yumiceva, F. X., Zeller, G. P., Zimmerman, E. D., and Zwaska, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the first observation of off-axis neutrino interactions in the MiniBooNE detector from the NuMI beamline at Fermilab. The MiniBooNE detector is located 745 m from the NuMI production target, at 110 mrad angle ($6.3^{\circ}$) with respect to the NuMI beam axis. Samples of charged current quasi-elastic $\nu_{\mu}$ and $\nu_e$ interactions are analyzed and found to be in agreement with expectation. This provides a direct verification of the expected pion and kaon contributions to the neutrino flux and validates the modeling of the NuMI off-axis beam., Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Published: 2008
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46. First Observation of Coherent $\pi^0$ Production in Neutrino Nucleus Interactions with $E_{\nu}<$ 2 GeV

Author: The MiniBooNE Collaboration, Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Anderson, C. E., Bazarko, A. O., Brice, S. J., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Coney, L., Conrad, J. M., Cox, D. C., Curioni, A., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fleming, B. T., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Green, C., Green, J. A., Hart, T. L., Hawker, E., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Karagiori, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E. M., Linden, S. K., Link, J. M., Liu, Y., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K. B. M., Marsh, W., Martin, P. S., McGregor, G., Metcalf, W., Meyers, P. D., Mills, F., Mills, G. B., Monroe, J., Moore, C. D., Nelson, R. H., Nguyen, V. T., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J. A., Ouedraogo, S., Patterson, R. B., Perevalov, D., Polly, C. C., Prebys, E., Raaf, J. L., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Sandberg, V., Schirato, R., Schmitz, D., Shaevitz, M. H., Shoemaker, F. C., Smith, D., Soderberg, M., Sorel, M., Spentzouris, P., Stancu, I., Stefanski, R. J., Sung, M., Tanaka, H. A., Tayloe, R., Tzanov, M., Van de Water, R., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wilking, M. J., Yang, H. J., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab has amassed the largest sample to date of $\pi^0$s produced in neutral current (NC) neutrino-nucleus interactions at low energy. This paper reports a measurement of the momentum distribution of $\pi^0$s produced in mineral oil (CH$_2$) and the first observation of coherent $\pi^0$ production below 2 GeV. In the forward direction, the yield of events observed above the expectation for resonant production is attributed primarily to coherent production off carbon, but may also include a small contribution from diffractive production on hydrogen. Integrated over the MiniBooNE neutrino flux, the sum of the NC coherent and diffractive modes is found to be (19.5 $\pm$1.1 (stat) $\pm$2.5 (sys))% of all exclusive NC $\pi^0$ production at MiniBooNE. These measurements are of immediate utility because they quantify an important background to MiniBooNE's search for $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_e$ oscillations., Comment: Submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Published: 2008
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47. Land use strategies to mitigate climate change in carbon dense temperate forests

Author: Law, Beverly E., Hudiburg, Tara W., Berner, Logan T., Kent, Jeffrey J., Buotte, Polly C., and Harmon, Mark E.
Published: 2018

48. Improved Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant

Author: MuLan Collaboration, Chitwood, D. B., Banks, T. I., Barnes, M. J., Battu, S., Carey, R. M., Cheekatmalla, S., Clayton, S. M., Crnkovic, J., Crowe, K. M., Debevec, P. T., Dhamija, S., Earle, W., Gafarov, A., Giovanetti, K., Gorringe, T. P., Gray, F. E., Hance, M., Hertzog, D. W., Hare, M. F., Kammel, P., Kiburg, B., Kunkle, J., Lauss, B., Logashenko, I., Lynch, K. R., McNabb, R., Miller, J. P., Mulhauser, F., Onderwater, C. J. G., Ozben, C. S., Peng, Q., Polly, C. C., Rath, S., Roberts, B. L., Tishchenko, V., Wait, G. D., Wasserman, J., Webber, D. M., Winter, P., and Zolnierczuk, P. A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The mean life of the positive muon has been measured to a precision of 11 ppm using a low-energy, pulsed muon beam stopped in a ferromagnetic target, which was surrounded by a scintillator detector array. The result, tau_mu = 2.197013(24) us, is in excellent agreement with the previous world average. The new world average tau_mu = 2.197019(21) us determines the Fermi constant G_F = 1.166371(6) x 10^-5 GeV^-2 (5 ppm). Additionally, the precision measurement of the positive muon lifetime is needed to determine the nucleon pseudoscalar coupling g_P., Comment: As published version (PRL, July 2007)
Published: 2007
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49. Precise Measurement of Muon Capture on the Proton

Author: Kammel, P., Andreev, V. A., Balin, D. V., Carey, R. M., Case, T., Chitwood, D. B., Clayton, S. M., Crowe, K. M., Deutsch, J., Debevec, P. T., Dick, P. U., Dijksman, A., Egger, J., Fahrni, D., Fetisov, A. A., Freedman, S. J., Ganzha, V. A., Gartner, B., Govaerts, J., Gray, F. E., Hartmann, F. J., Herold, W. D., Hertzog, D. W., Jatsoura, V. I., Krivshich, A. G., Lauss, B., Maev, E. M., Maev, O. E., Markushin, V. E., Onderwater, C. J. G., Petitjean, C., Petrov, G. E., Polly, C. C., Prieels, R., Sadetsky, S. M., Schapkin, G. N., Schmidt, R., Semenchuk, G. G., Soroka, M., Vorobyov, A. A., and Voropaev, N. I.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The aim of the MuCap experiment is a 1% measurement of the singlet capture rate Lambda_S for the basic electro-weak reaction mu + p -> n + nu_mu. This observable is sensitive to the weak form-factors of the nucleon, in particular to the induced pseudoscalar coupling constant g_P. It will provide a rigorous test of theoretical predictions based on the Standard Model and effective theories of QCD. The present method is based on high precision lifetime measurements of mu^- in hydrogen gas and the comparison with the free mu^+ lifetime. The mu^- experiment will be performed in ultra-clean, deuterium-depleted H_2 gas at 10 bar. Low density compared to liquid H_2 is chosen to avoid uncertainties due to ppmu formation. A time projection chamber acts as a pure hydrogen active target. It defines the muon stop position in 3-D and detects rare background reactions. Decay electrons are tracked in cylindrical wire-chambers and a scintillator array covering 75% of 4 pi., Comment: Int. RIKEN Conf. on Muon Catalyzed Fusion and Related Exotic Atoms, April 2001, Shimoda, Japan, to be published in Hyperfine Interactions
Published: 2002

50. Large-Carnivore Response to Recreational Big-Game Hunting along the Yellowstone National Park and Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Boundary

Author: Ruth, Toni K., Smith, Douglas W., Haroldson, Mark A., Buotte, Polly C., Schwartz, Charles C., Quigley, Howard B., Cherry, Steve, Murphy, Kerry M., Tyers, Dan, and Frey, Kevin
Published: 2003

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