Publications (70)
Search for an anomalous excess of charged-current quasi-elastic interactions with the MicroBooNE experiment using Deep-Learning-based reconstruction
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +185
We present a measurement of the -interaction rate in the MicroBooNE detector that addresses the observed MiniBooNE anomalous low-energy excess (LEE). The approach taken isola…
Enhanced search for neutral current radiative single-photon production in MicroBooNE
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +177
We report results from an updated search for neutral current (NC) resonant (1232) baryon production and subsequent radiative decay (NC ). We consider e…
Impact of cross-section uncertainties on supernova neutrino spectral parameter fitting in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1313
A primary goal of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is to measure the MeV neutrinos produced by a Galactic core-collapse supernova if one s…
A Convolutional Neural Network for Multiple Particle Identification in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +184
We present the multiple particle identification (MPID) network, a convolutional neural network (CNN) for multiple object classification, developed by MicroBooNE. MPID provides the…
Vertex-Finding and Reconstruction of Contained Two-track Neutrino Events in the MicroBooNE Detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +186
We describe algorithms developed to isolate and accurately reconstruct two-track events that are contained within the MicroBooNE detector. This method is optimized to reconstruct t…
The DUNE Phase II Detectors
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340
The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…
Observation of Radon Mitigation in MicroBooNE by a Liquid Argon Filtration System
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, J. Anthony +190
The MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) maintains a high level of liquid argon purity through the use of a filtration system that removes electronegative conta…
Towards mono-energetic virtual beam cross-section measurements: A feasibility study of -Ar interaction analysis with DUNE-PRISM
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1321
Neutrino-nucleus cross-section measurements are critical for future neutrino oscillation analyses. However, our models to describe them require further refinement, and a deeper und…
Search for an anomalous excess of charged-current interactions without pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE experiment
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +188
This article presents a measurement of interactions without pions in the final state using the MicroBooNE experiment and an investigation into the excess of low-energy elect…
Cosmic ray muon clustering for the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using sMask-RCNN
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +188
In this article, we describe a modified implementation of Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks (Mask-RCNN) for cosmic ray muon clustering in a liquid argon TPC and appli…
Neutrino Event Selection in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber using Wire-Cell 3-D Imaging, Clustering, and Charge-Light Matching
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +182
An accurate and efficient event reconstruction is required to realize the full scientific capability of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). The current and future neut…
Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs II. Data/Simulation Comparison and Performance in MicroBooNE
MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, R. An +168
The single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) provides a large amount of detailed information in the form of fine-grained drifted ionization charge from particle t…
The DUNE Science Program
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340
The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…
Measurement of the double-differential cross section of muon-neutrino charged-current interactions with low hadronic energy in the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +208
The NOvA collaboration reports cross-section measurements for charged-current interactions with low hadronic energy (maximum kinetic energy of 250 MeV for protons and 175 M…
The DUNE Far Detector Vertical Drift Technology, Technical Design Report
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1324
DUNE is an international experiment dedicated to addressing some of the questions at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics, including the mystifying preponderance of m…
Reconstruction and Measurement of (100) MeV Energy Electromagnetic Activity from Decays in the MicroBooNE LArTPC
MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +186
We present results on the reconstruction of electromagnetic (EM) activity from photons produced in charged current interactions with final state s. We employ a fully-…
Neutrino Interaction Vertex Reconstruction in DUNE with Pandora Deep Learning
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1331
The Pandora Software Development Kit and algorithm libraries perform reconstruction of neutrino interactions in liquid argon time projection chamber detectors. Pandora is the prima…
European Contributions to Fermilab Accelerator Upgrades and Facilities for the DUNE Experiment
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340
The Proton Improvement Plan (PIP-II) to the FNAL accelerator chain and the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will provide the world's most intense neutrino beam to the Deep Un…
Search for Neutrino-Induced Neutral Current Radiative Decay in MicroBooNE and a First Test of the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess Under a Single-Photon Hypothesis
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +185
We report results from a search for neutrino-induced neutral current (NC) resonant (1232) baryon production followed by radiative decay, with a ~GeV neu…
Electromagnetic Shower Reconstruction and Energy Validation with Michel Electrons and Samples for the Deep-Learning-Based Analyses in MicroBooNE
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +183
This article presents the reconstruction of the electromagnetic activity from electrons and photons (showers) used in the MicroBooNE deep learning-based low energy electron search.…
Measurement of the Longitudinal Diffusion of Ionization Electrons in the MicroBooNE Detector
P. Abratenko, R. An, J. Anthony +179
Accurate knowledge of electron transport properties is vital to understanding the information provided by liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). Ionization electron drift…
First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon at GeV with the MicroBooNE Detector
P. Abratenko, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +178
We report the first measurement of the double-differential and total muon neutrino charged current inclusive cross sections on argon at a mean neutrino energy of 0.8 GeV. Data were…
Identification of low-energy kaons in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1343
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation neutrino experiment with a rich physics program that includes searches for the hypothetical phenomenon of proto…
Wire-Cell 3D Pattern Recognition Techniques for Neutrino Event Reconstruction in Large LArTPCs: Algorithm Description and Quantitative Evaluation with MicroBooNE Simulation
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +185
Wire-Cell is a 3D event reconstruction package for liquid argon time projection chambers. Through geometry, time, and drifted charge from multiple readout wire planes, 3D space poi…
A Method to Determine the Electric Field of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers Using a UV Laser System and its Application in MicroBooNE
MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +187
Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) are now a standard detector technology for making accelerator neutrino measurements, due to their high material density, precise tra…
Performance of a modular ton-scale pixel-readout liquid argon time projection chamber
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1360
The Module-0 Demonstrator is a single-phase 600 kg liquid argon time projection chamber operated as a prototype for the DUNE liquid argon near detector. Based on the ArgonCube desi…
Calorimetric classification of track-like signatures in liquid argon TPCs using MicroBooNE data
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +179
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…
The Continuous Readout Stream of the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber for Detection of Supernova Burst Neutrinos
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +185
The MicroBooNE continuous readout stream is a parallel readout of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) which enables detection of non-beam events such as th…
Search for heavy neutral leptons decaying into muon-pion pairs in the MicroBooNE detector
P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed, R. An +181
We present upper limits on the production of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) decaying to pairs using data collected with the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber (TP…
Highly-parallelized simulation of a pixelated LArTPC on a GPU
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1300
The rapid development of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is allowing the implementation of highly-parallelized Monte Carlo simulation chains for part…
Construction of precision wire readout planes for the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND)
R. Acciarri, C. Adams, C. Andreopoulos +192
The Short-Baseline Near Detector time projection chamber is unique in the design of its charge readout planes. These anode plane assemblies (APAs) have been fabricated and assemble…
Search for a Higgs portal scalar decaying to electron-positron pairs in the MicroBooNE detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +181
We present a search for the decays of a neutral scalar boson produced by kaons decaying at rest, in the context of the Higgs portal model, using the MicroBooNE detector. We analyze…
Comparison of νμ-Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions
C. Adams, R. An, J. Anthony +162
We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab.…
First Measurement of Charged-Current Production on Argon with a LArTPC
MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +172
We report the first measurement of the flux-integrated cross section of charged-current single production on argon. This measurement is performed with the MicroBoo…
DUNE Software and Computing Research and Development
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340
The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…
DUNE Phase II: Scientific Opportunities, Detector Concepts, Technological Solutions
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1366
The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…
A Deep Neural Network for Pixel-Level Electromagnetic Particle Identification in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +170
We have developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) that can make a pixel-level prediction of objects in image data recorded by a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) f…
Search for an anomalous excess of inclusive charged-current interactions in the MicroBooNE experiment using Wire-Cell reconstruction
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +184
We report a search for an anomalous excess of inclusive charged-current (CC) interactions using the Wire-Cell event reconstruction package in the MicroBooNE experiment, whic…
Operation of a Modular 3D-Pixelated Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber in a Neutrino Beam
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1318
The 2x2 Demonstrator, a prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) liquid argon (LAr) Near Detector, was exposed to the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) n…
Semantic Segmentation with a Sparse Convolutional Neural Network for Event Reconstruction in MicroBooNE
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +180
We present the performance of a semantic segmentation network, SparseSSNet, that provides pixel-level classification of MicroBooNE data. The MicroBooNE experiment employs a liquid…
Rejecting cosmic background for exclusive neutrino interaction studies with Liquid Argon TPCs; a case study with the MicroBooNE detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +172
Cosmic ray (CR) interactions can be a challenging source of background for neutrino oscillation and cross-section measurements in surface detectors. We present methods for CR rejec…
First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielastic-like -Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector
P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed, R. An +181
We report on the first measurement of flux-integrated single differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino () scattering on argon with a muon and a prot…
Spatial and Temporal Evaluations of the Liquid Argon Purity in ProtoDUNE-SP
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1320
Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) rely on highly pure argon to ensure that ionization electrons produced by charged particles reach readout arrays. ProtoDUNE Single-P…
Supernova Pointing Capabilities of DUNE
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1360
The determination of the direction of a stellar core collapse via its neutrino emission is crucial for the identification of the progenitor for a multimessenger follow-up. A highly…
New CC0Ï GENIE Model Tune for MicroBooNE
The MicroBooNE Collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +182
A novel tune has been made for the MicroBooNE experiment. The fit uses 4 new parameters within the GENIE v3.0.6 Monte Carlo program. Charged current pionless data from the T2K expe…
High-performance Generic Neutrino Detection in a LArTPC near the Earth's Surface with the MicroBooNE Detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +186
Large Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are being increasingly adopted in neutrino oscillation experiments because of their superb imaging capabilities through the co…
Calibration of the charge and energy loss per unit length of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using muons and protons
MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +186
We describe a method used to calibrate the position- and time-dependent response of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber anode wires to ionization particle energy lo…
Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments
NOvA, T2K Collaborations, : +597
The landmark discovery that neutrinos have mass and can change type (or "flavor") as they propagate -- a process called neutrino oscillation -- has opened up a rich array of theore…
Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Rate with the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC
MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +187
MicroBooNE is a near-surface liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) located at Fermilab. We measure the characterisation of muons originating from cosmic interactions in…
Measurement of the Flux-Averaged Inclusive Charged-Current Electron Neutrino and Antineutrino Cross Section on Argon using the NuMI Beam and the MicroBooNE Detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +185
We present a measurement of the combined + flux-averaged charged-current inclusive cross section on argon using data from the MicroBooNE liquid argon time project…
Novel Approach for Evaluating Detector-Related Uncertainties in a LArTPC Using MicroBooNE Data
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +183
Primary challenges for current and future precision neutrino experiments using liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) include understanding detector effects and quantifyin…
Measurement of Space Charge Effects in the MicroBooNE LArTPC Using Cosmic Muons
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +184
Large liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), especially those operating near the surface, are susceptible to space charge effects. In the context of LArTPCs, the space ch…
Cosmic Ray Background Rejection with Wire-Cell LArTPC Event Reconstruction in the MicroBooNE Detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +186
For a large liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) operating on or near the Earth's surface to detect neutrino interactions, the rejection of cosmogenic background is a crit…
Measurement of d2sigma/d|q|dEavail in charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions at <Ev> = 1.86 GeV using the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +205
Double- and single-differential cross sections for inclusive charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering are reported for the kinematic domain 0 to 2 GeV/c in three-momentum transf…
First Measurement of Inclusive Electron-Neutrino and Antineutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections in Charged Lepton Energy on Argon in MicroBooNE
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +185
We present the first measurement of the single-differential charged-current inclusive cross sections on argon in electron or positron energy and in electron or po…
Measurement of Exclusive --argon Interactions Using ProtoDUNE-SP
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1323
We present the measurement of --argon inelastic cross sections using the ProtoDUNE Single-Phase liquid argon time projection chamber in the incident kinetic energy r…
Measurement of neutral current single production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, J. Anthony +192
We report the first measurement of production in neutral current (NC) interactions on argon with average neutrino energy of ~GeV. We use data from the MicroBooNE…
Search for an Excess of Electron Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE Using Multiple Final State Topologies
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +192
We present a measurement of electron neutrino interactions from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber to address the nature o…
First Measurement of Energy-Dependent Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector
MicroBooNE Collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +185
We report a measurement of the energy-dependent total charged-current cross section for inclusive muon neutrinos scattering on argon, as well as measurements…
First Measurement of the Total Inelastic Cross-Section of Positively-Charged Kaons on Argon at Energies Between 5.0 and 7.5 GeV
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1360
ProtoDUNE Single-Phase (ProtoDUNE-SP) is a 770-ton liquid argon time projection chamber that operated in a hadron test beam at the CERN Neutrino Platform in 2018. We present a meas…
Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs I. Algorithm Description and Quantitative Evaluation with MicroBooNE Simulation
MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, R. An +166
We describe the concept and procedure of drifted-charge extraction developed in the MicroBooNE experiment, a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). This techni…
Doping Liquid Argon with Xenon in ProtoDUNE Single-Phase: Effects on Scintillation Light
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1317
Doping of liquid argon TPCs (LArTPCs) with a small concentration of xenon is a technique for light-shifting and facilitates the detection of the liquid argon scintillation light. I…
Measurement of Differential Cross Sections for -Ar Charged-Current Interactions with Protons and no Pions in the Final State with the MicroBooNE Detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +182
We present an analysis of MicroBooNE data with a signature of one muon, no pions, and at least one proton above a momentum threshold of 300 MeV/c (CC0Np). This is the first dif…
Search for -Violating Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions with the NOvA Experiment
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, B. Acharya +204
This Letter reports a search for charge-parity () symmetry violating nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the NOvA Experiment, and examines their effec…
Design and Construction of the MicroBooNE Detector
MicroBooNE Collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +237
This paper describes the design and construction of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber and associated systems. MicroBooNE is the first phase of the Short Baseline…
First Measurement of -Ar and -Ar Total Inelastic Cross Sections in the Sub-GeV Energy Regime with ProtoDUNE-SP Data
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1346
The ProtoDUNE-SP detector, a kiloton-scale prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) far detector, is the largest liquid argon time projection chamber built to…
The track-length extension fitting algorithm for energy measurement of interacting particles in liquid argon TPCs and its performance with ProtoDUNE-SP data
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1366
This paper introduces a novel track-length extension fitting algorithm for measuring the kinetic energies of inelastically interacting particles in liquid argon time projection cha…
Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system
MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +171
The MicroBooNE detector utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) with an 85 t active mass to study neutrino interactions along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fe…
Reconstruction of atmospheric neutrinos in DUNE's horizontal-drift far-detector module
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1343
This paper reports on the capabilities in reconstructing and identifying atmospheric neutrino interactions in one of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment's (DUNE) far detector…
Expanding neutrino oscillation parameter measurements in NOvA using a Bayesian approach
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, B. Acharya +196
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that measures oscillations in charged-current (disappearance) and (appe…