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20152021
most citedDesign and Construction of the MicroBooNE Detector

429 citations · 1.8k across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

hep-ex2021★ 44 cited

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 isolat…

hep-ex2021★ 5 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2020★ 20 cited

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…

hep-ex2019★ 51 cited

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 (TPC)…

physics.ins-det2019★ 63 cited

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…

hep-ex2019★ 35 cited

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-aut…

physics.ins-det2019★ 74 cited

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…

hep-ex2019★ 79 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 2 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 31 cited

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…

hep-ex2018★ 39 cited

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 MicroBooNE…

hep-ex2018★ 83 cited

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…

hep-ex2018★ 15 cited

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.…

physics.ins-det2018★ 111 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2018★ 87 cited

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…

hep-ex2017★ 12 cited

The Pandora multi-algorithm approach to automated pattern recognition of cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector

MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +145

The development and operation of Liquid-Argon Time-Projection Chambers for neutrino physics has created a need for new approaches to pattern recognition in order to fully exploit t…

hep-ex2017★ 16 cited

Measurement of cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiencies in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using a small external cosmic-ray counter

MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +148

The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber at Fermilab designed to study short-baseline neutrino oscillations and neutrino-argon interaction cross-section. D…

physics.ins-det2017★ 106 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2017★ 53 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2017★ 54 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2017★ 429 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2016★ 110 cited

Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to Neutrino Events in a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +136

We present several studies of convolutional neural networks applied to data coming from the MicroBooNE detector, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). The algorithms stu…

physics.ins-det2015★ 302 cited

A Proposal for a Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam

R. Acciarri, C. Adams, R. An +221

A Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) physics program of three LAr-TPC detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab is presented. This new SBN Program will deliver…