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Long-term scintillation light performance, calibrations, and triggering efficiency in the MicroBooNE detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +191
A detailed understanding of scintillation light in liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) is essential for the robust extraction of physics measurements from their data. T…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Construction and Assembly of the Wire Planes for the MicroBooNE Time Projection Chamber
R. Acciarri, C. Adams, J. Asaadi +14
In this paper we describe how the readout planes for the MicroBooNE Time Projection Chamber were constructed, assembled and installed. We present the individual wire preparation us…
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…
Testing of High Voltage Surge Protection Devices for Use in Liquid Argon TPC Detectors
J. Asaadi, J. M. Conrad, S. Gollapinni +6
In this paper we demonstrate the capability of high voltage varistors and gas discharge tube arrestors for use as surge protection devices in liquid argon time projection chamber d…
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Research and Development in the United States
B. Baller, C. Bromberg, N. Buchanan +34
A workshop was held at Fermilab on March 20-21, 2013 to discuss the development of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPC) in the United States. The workshop was organized u…