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Scintillation light calibrations, systematic uncertainties, and triggering efficiency in the MicroBooNE detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +191
Scintillation light, produced alongside ionisation charge from particle interactions, plays a critical role in liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detectors. A detailed u…
Characterization of UV optical components for photon detector calibration in liquid argon TPCs
B. Behera, M. Bilal Azam, Z. Djurcic +13
Large liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) require stable and well-characterized delivery of ultraviolet (UV) light for in situ calibration of photosensors at cryogenic…
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…
Low-Energy Physics in Neutrino LArTPCs
D. Caratelli, W. Foreman, A. Friedland +285
In this white paper, we outline some of the scientific opportunities and challenges related to detection and reconstruction of low-energy (less than 100 MeV) signatures in liquid a…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Supernova neutrino detection in NOvA
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +199
The NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment uses a pair of large, segmented, liquid-scintillator calorimeters to study neutrino oscillations, using GeV-scale neutrinos from the Ferm…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Noise Characterization and Filtering in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC
MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +152
The low-noise operation of readout electronics in a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is critical to properly extract the distribution of ionization charge deposited on…
Michel Electron Reconstruction Using Cosmic-Ray Data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC
MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +143
The MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) has been taking data at Fermilab since 2015 collecting, in addition to neutrino beam, cosmic-ray muons. Results are pre…
Determination of muon momentum in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using an improved model of multiple Coulomb scattering
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri +145
We discuss a technique for measuring a charged particle's momentum by means of multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). Th…