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hep-ex2026

Improved muon energy estimation using a detailed model of multiple Coulomb scattering in the MicroBooNE LArTPC

MicroBooNE Collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +189

We present an improved technique for estimating a muon's energy by measuring the deflections along its path inside the MicroBooNE detector from multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS). T…

hep-ex2026

Measurements of the electron neutrino-argon differential cross section without pions in the final state in MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +190

We present a new measurement of the electron neutrino charged current cross section on argon without pions in the final state. This measurement uses the full MicroBooNE booster neu…

hep-ex2025★ 10 cited

Search for Light Sterile Neutrinos With Two Neutrino Beams at MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +176

The existence of three distinct neutrino flavours, , , and , is a central tenet of the Standard Model of particle physics. Quantum-mechanical interference can allo…

hep-ex2025

Search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA

KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +285

The existence of an eV-scale sterile neutrino has been proposed to explain several anomalous experimental results obtained over the course of the past 25 years. The first search fo…

hep-ex2025★ 8 cited

Physics Briefing Book: Input for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Jorge de Blas, Monica Dunford, Emanuele Bagnaschi +127

The European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) reflects the vision and presents concrete plans of the European particle physics community for advancing human knowledge in fundam…

hep-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2025★ 2 cited

Measurement of single charged pion production in charged-current -Ar interactions with the MicroBooNE detector

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +178

We present flux-averaged charged-current cross-section measurements on argon for final states containing exactly one and no other hadrons except nucleons. The analysi…

hep-ex2025

Sampling Off-Axis Neutrino Fluxes with the Short-Baseline Near Detector

P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +199

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND), the near detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is located just 110 m from the Booster N…

hep-ex2025★ 2 cited

Measurement of charged-current muon neutrino-argon interactions without pions in the final state using the MicroBooNE detector

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +177

We report a new measurement of flux-integrated differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino interactions with argon nuclei that produce no final-state pions (…

hep-ex2025★ 3 cited

First study of neutrino angle reconstruction using quasielastic-like interactions in MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +172

We investigate the expected precision of the reconstructed neutrino direction using a νμ-argon quasielastic-like event topology with one muon and one proton in the final state and…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

Measurements of production cross-sections in collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Measurements of production cross-sections are presented, providing a test of the predictions of perturbative quantum chromodynamics and the elect…

hep-ex2025★ 6 cited

First measurement of + charged current single charged pion production differential cross sections on argon using the MicroBooNE detector

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +172

Understanding electron neutrino interactions is crucial for measurements of neutrino oscillations and searches for new physics in neutrino experiments. We present the first measure…

hep-ex2025★ 2 cited

Inclusive Search for Anomalous Single-Photon Production in MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +176

We present an inclusive search for anomalous production of single-photon events from neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE experiment. The search and its signal definition are mo…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

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…

hep-ex2025★ 2 cited

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 event…

hep-ex2025★ 2 cited

Search for the production of Higgs-portal scalar bosons in the NuMI beam using the MicroBooNE detector

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +178

We present the strongest experimental limits to date on the mixing angle, , with which a new scalar particle, , mixes with the Higgs field in the mass range $110\text{ MeV}<m…

hep-ex2024★ 10 cited

Search for an Anomalous Production of Charged-Current Interactions Without Visible Pions Across Multiple Kinematic Observables in MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +177

This Letter presents an investigation of low-energy electron-neutrino interactions in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam by the MicroBooNE experiment, motivated by the excess of el…

hep-ex2024★ 3 cited

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

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait +184

Neutrino-nucleus cross section measurements are needed to improve interaction modeling to meet the precision needs of neutrino experiments in efforts to measure oscillation paramet…

hep-ex2024★ 8 cited

Search for a Hidden Sector Scalar from Kaon Decay in the Di-Muon Final State at ICARUS

ICARUS Collaboration, F. Abd Alrahman, P. Abratenko +191

We present a search for long-lived particles (LLPs) produced from kaon decay that decay to two muons inside the ICARUS neutrino detector. This channel would be a signal of hidden s…

hep-ex2024★ 10 cited

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

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait +184

Large neutrino liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiments can broaden their physics reach by reconstructing and interpreting MeV-scale energy depositions, or blips,…

hep-ex2024★ 21 cited

The XLZD Design Book: Towards the Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

XLZD Collaboration, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +441

This report describes the experimental strategy and technologies for XLZD, the next-generation xenon observatory sensitive to dark matter and neutrino physics. In the baseline desi…

hep-ex2024★ 3 cited

Discriminating sub-TeV gamma and hadron-induced showers through their footprints

R. Conceição, B. S. González, A. Guillén +2

Gamma/hadron discrimination in ground-based gamma-ray observatories at the sub-TeV energy range is challenging as traditional muon-based methods become less effective at lower ener…

hep-ex2024★ 7 cited

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…

hep-ex2024★ 6 cited

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

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait +187

A significant challenge in measurements of neutrino oscillations is reconstructing the incoming neutrino energies. While modern fully-active tracking calorimeters such as liquid ar…