scholarly journals Calorimetric classification of track-like signatures in liquid argon TPCs using MicroBooNE data

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
P. Abratenko ◽  
R. An ◽  
J. Anthony ◽  
J. Asaadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Particle Trajectory ◽  
Unit Length ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Particle Identification ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Identification Rate ◽  
Reconstruction Performance ◽  
Deposited Energy

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

scholarly journals Neutrino interaction measurements with the MicroBooNE and ArgoNeuT liquid argon time projection chambers

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. E. Duffy ◽  
A. P. Furmanski ◽  
E. Gramellini ◽  
O. Palamara ◽  
M. Soderberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Neutrino Interaction ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Neutrino Scattering ◽  
Scattering Cross ◽  
Time Projection ◽  
Scattering Cross Sections

AbstractPrecise modeling of neutrino interactions on argon is crucial for the success of future experiments such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) and the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program, which will use liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) technology. Argon is a large nucleus, and nuclear effects—both on the initial and final-state particles in the interaction—are expected to be large in neutrino–argon interactions. Therefore, measurements of neutrino scattering cross sections on argon will be of particular importance to future DUNE and SBN oscillation measurements. This article presents a review of neutrino–argon interaction measurements from the MicroBooNE and ArgoNeuT collaborations, using two LArTPC detectors that have collected data in the NuMI and Booster Neutrino Beams at Fermilab. Measurements are presented of charged-current muon neutrino scattering in the inclusive channel, the ‘0$$\pi $$ π ’ channel (in which no pions but some number of protons may be produced), and single pion production (including production of both charged and neutral pions). Measurements of electron neutrino scattering are presented in the form of $$\nu _e+\bar{\nu }_e$$ ν e + ν ¯ e  inclusive scattering cross sections.

scholarly journals The Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 363-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro A.N. Machado ◽  
Ornella Palamara ◽  
David W. Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Argon ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ◽  
Time Projection

The Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program consists of three liquid argon time-projection chamber detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Its main goals include searches for New Physics—particularly eV-scale sterile neutrinos, detailed studies of neutrino–nucleus interactions at the GeV energy scale, and the advancement of the liquid argon detector technology that will also be used in the DUNE/LBNF long-baseline neutrino experiment in the next decade. We review these science goals and the current experimental status of SBN.

scholarly journals Design, construction and operation of the ProtoDUNE-SP Liquid Argon TPC

2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. P01005
Author(s):  
A. Abed Abud ◽  
B. Abi ◽  
R. Acciarri ◽  
M.A. Acero ◽  
M.R. Adames ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Phase ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Particle Identification ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Successful Operation ◽  
Active Volume ◽  
Phase Liquid ◽  
Deep Underground ◽  
Time Projection ◽  
Design Construction

Abstract The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that was constructed and operated in the CERN North Area at the end of the H4 beamline. This detector is a prototype for the first far detector module of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which will be constructed at the Sandford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, U.S.A. The ProtoDUNE-SP detector incorporates full-size components as designed for DUNE and has an active volume of 7 × 6 × 7.2 m3. The H4 beam delivers incident particles with well-measured momenta and high-purity particle identification. ProtoDUNE-SP's successful operation between 2018 and 2020 demonstrates the effectiveness of the single-phase far detector design. This paper describes the design, construction, assembly and operation of the detector components.

scholarly journals LEvEL: Low-Energy Neutrino Experiment at the LHC

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Kelly ◽  
Pedro A. N. Machado ◽  
Alberto Marchionni ◽  
Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Neutrino Flux ◽  
Coherent Scattering ◽  
Forward Direction ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Beam Dump ◽  
Neutrino Production ◽  
Energy Neutrino

Abstract We propose the operation of LEvEL, the Low-Energy Neutrino Experiment at the LHC, a neutrino detector near the Large Hadron Collider Beam Dump. Such a detector is capable of exploring an intense, low-energy neutrino flux and can measure neutrino cross sections that have previously never been observed. These cross sections can inform other future neutrino experiments, such as those aiming to observe neutrinos from supernovae, allowing such measurements to accomplish their fundamental physics goals. We perform detailed simulations to determine neutrino production at the LHC beam dump, as well as neutron and muon backgrounds. Measurements at a few to ten percent precision of neutrino-argon charged current and neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering cross sections are attainable with 100 ton-year and 1 ton-year exposures at LEvEL, respectively, concurrent with the operation of the High Luminosity LHC. We also estimate signal and backgrounds for an experiment exploiting the forward direction of the LHC beam dump, which could measure neutrinos above 100 GeV.

scholarly journals Overhaul and installation of the ICARUS-T600 liquid argon TPC electronics for the FNAL Short Baseline Neutrino program

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. P01037-P01037
Author(s):  
L. Bagby ◽  
B. Baibussinov ◽  
B. Behera ◽  
V. Bellini ◽  
R. Benocci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Short Baseline

scholarly journals Significant Excess of Electronlike Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

2018 ◽  
Vol 121 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo ◽  
B. C. Brown ◽  
L. Bugel ◽  
G. Cheng ◽  
J. M. Conrad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Significant Excess ◽  
Short Baseline

scholarly journals Cross section calculations for neutrino-nucleus reactions at low and intermediate energies.

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
V. Ch. Chasioti ◽  
T. S. Kosmas ◽  
P. Divari
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Neutral Current ◽  
Axial Vector ◽  
Random Phase ◽  
Neutrino Energy ◽  
Reaction Cross ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Final State ◽  
Quasi Particle ◽  
Intermediate Energies

Inelastic neutrino-nucleus reaction cross sections are studied focusing on the neutral current processes. Particularly, we investigate the angular and initial neutrino-energy dependence of the differential and integrated cross sections for low and intermediate energies of the incoming neutrino (or antineutrino). Contributions coming from both, the vector and axial-vector components of the corresponding hadronic currents have been included. The initial and final state nuclear wave-functions have been calculated in the context of the Quasi-particle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA) tested on the reproducibility of the low-lying energy spectrum (up to about 5 MeV) of the studied nuclei. The results presented here refer to the nuclear isotopes 16O and 98Mo. As it is well known, O plays a significant role in supernova evolution phenomena and Mo is used as a target in the MOON neutrino experiment at Japan.

scholarly journals The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maury Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Research Facility ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
The Status ◽  
Deep Underground ◽  
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ◽  
Sanford Underground Research Facility

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a worldwide effort to construct a next-generation long-baseline neutrino experiment based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. It is a merger of previous efforts and other interested parties to build, operate, and exploit a staged 40 kt liquid argon detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility 1300 km from Fermilab, and a high precision near detector, exposed to a 1.2 MW, tunableνbeam produced by the PIP-II upgrade by 2024, evolving to a power of 2.3 MW by 2030. The neutrino oscillation physics goals and the status of the collaboration and project are summarized in this paper.

scholarly journals Slender body theory for particles with non-circular cross-sections with application to particle dynamics in shear flows

2019 ◽  
Vol 877 ◽  
pp. 1098-1133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeraj S. Borker ◽  
Donald L. Koch
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Relative Motion ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Stokes Flow ◽  
Unit Length ◽  
Fluid Velocity ◽  
Simple Shear Flow ◽  
Slender Body Theory ◽  
Aspect Ratios ◽  
Cross Sectional Dimension

This paper presents a theory to obtain the force per unit length acting on a slender filament with a non-circular cross-section moving in a fluid at low Reynolds number. Using a regular perturbation of the inner solution, we show that the force per unit length has $O(1/\ln (2A))+O(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}/\ln ^{2}(2A))$ contributions driven by the relative motion of the particle and the local fluid velocity and an $O(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}/(\ln (2A)A))$ contribution driven by the gradient in the imposed fluid velocity. Here, the aspect ratio ($A=l/a_{0}$) is defined as the ratio of the particle size ($l$) to the cross-sectional dimension ($a_{0}$) and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ is the amplitude of the non-circular perturbation. Using thought experiments, we show that two-lobed and three-lobed cross-sections affect the response to relative motion and velocity gradients, respectively. A two-dimensional Stokes flow calculation is used to extend the perturbation analysis to cross-sections that deviate significantly from a circle (i.e. $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}\sim O(1)$). We demonstrate the ability of our method to accurately compute the resistance to translation and rotation of a slender triaxial ellipsoid. Furthermore, we illustrate novel dynamics of straight rods in a simple shear flow that translate and rotate quasi-periodically if they have two-lobed cross-section, and rotate chaotically and translate diffusively if they have a combination of two- and three-lobed cross-sections. Finally, we show the remarkable ability of our theory to accurately predict the motion of rings, retaining great accuracy for moderate aspect ratios (${\sim}10$) and cross-sections that deviate significantly from a circle, thereby making our theory a computationally inexpensive alternative to other Stokes flow solvers.

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