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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…
Angular dependent measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon for ionization calorimetry in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber
ICARUS collaboration, P. Abratenko, N. Abrego-Martinez +178
This paper reports on a measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). A clear dependence of recombination o…
Differentiable Simulation of a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
Sean Gasiorowski, Yifan Chen, Youssef Nashed +5
Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) are widely used in particle detection for their tracking and calorimetric capabilities. The particle physics community actively buil…
Implicit Neural Representation as a Differentiable Surrogate for Photon Propagation in a Monolithic Neutrino Detector
Minjie Lei, Ka Vang Tsang, Sean Gasiorowski +6
Optical photons are used as signal in a wide variety of particle detectors. Modern neutrino experiments employ hundreds to tens of thousands of photon detectors to observe signal f…
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…
The Double Chooz antineutrino detectors
Double Chooz Collaboration, H. de Kerret, Y. Abe +247
This article describes the setup and performance of the near and far detectors in the Double Chooz experiment. The electron antineutrinos of the Chooz nuclear power plant were meas…
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…
Scalable, Proposal-free Instance Segmentation Network for 3D Pixel Clustering and Particle Trajectory Reconstruction in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers
Dae Heun Koh, Pierre Côte de Soux, Laura Dominé +6
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are high resolution particle imaging detectors, employed by accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments for high precision ph…
Clustering of Electromagnetic Showers and Particle Interactions with Graph Neural Networks in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers Data
Francois Drielsma, Qing Lin, Pierre Côte de Soux +7
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are a class of detectors that produce high resolution images of charged particles within their sensitive volume. In these images, th…
Track Seeding and Labelling with Embedded-space Graph Neural Networks
Nicholas Choma, Daniel Murnane, Xiangyang Ju +16
To address the unprecedented scale of HL-LHC data, the Exa.TrkX project is investigating a variety of machine learning approaches to particle track reconstruction. The most promisi…
PILArNet: Public Dataset for Particle Imaging Liquid Argon Detectors in High Energy Physics
Corey Adams, Kazuhiro Terao, Taritree Wongjirad
Rapid advancement of machine learning solutions has often coincided with the production of a test public data set. Such datasets reduce the largest barrier to entry for tackling a…
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…
A New Concept for Kilotonne Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers
M. Auger, R. Berner, Y. Chen +25
We develop a novel approach for a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) concept suitable for deployment in kilotonne scale detectors, with a charge-readout system free from reconstruction…
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…