Design and construction of the MicroBooNE detector

Acciarri, R.; Adams, C.; An, R.; Aparicio, A.; Aponte, S.; Asaadi, J.; Auger, M.; Ayoub, Nadine; Bagby, L.; Baller, B.; Barger, R. K.; Barr, G.; Bass, M.; Bay, F.; Biery, K.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bocean, V.; Boehnlein, D.; Bogert, V.D.; Bolton, T.; Bugel, L.; Callahan, C.; Camilleri, L.; Caratelli, D.; Carls, B.; Fernández, R. Castillo; Cavanna, F.; Chappa, S.; Chen, H.; Chen, K.; Chi, C.Y.; Chiu, Christie; Church, E.; Cianci, D.; Collin, Gabriel; Conrad, J. M.; Convery, M. R.; Cornele, J.; Cowan, P. L.; Crespo-Anadón, J. I.; Crutcher, G.; Darve, Christine; Davis, Raymond J.; Tutto, M. Del; Devitt, D.; Duffin, S.; Dytman, S.; Eberly, B.; Ereditato, A.; Erickson, David; Escudero, L.; Esquivel, J.; Farooq, S.; Farrell, J.; Featherston, D.; Fleming, B. T.; Foreman, W.; Furmanski, A. P.; Genty, V.; Geynisman, M.; Goeldi, D.; Goff, B.; Gollapinni, S.; Graf, N.; Gramellini, E.; Green, J.; Greene, Austen T.; Greenlee, H.; Griffin, T.; Grosso, R.; Guénette, R.; Hackenburg, A.; Haenni, Rolf; Hamilton, P.; Healey, P.; Hen, O.; Henderson, Elizabeth; Hewes, J.; Hill, Colton; Hill, K. K.; Himes, Logan; Ho, Johnny C.; Horton-Smith, G. A.; Huffman, David L.; Ignarra, C.; James, C.; James, E.; Vries, J. Jan de; Jaskierny, W.; Jen, C. M.; Jiang, L.; Johnson, B.; Johnson, M.; Johnson, R. A.; Jones, B. J. P.; Joshi, J.; Jöstlein, H.; Kaleko, D.; Kalousis, Leonidas; Karagiorgi, G.; Katori, T.; Kellogg, Philip Griffith; Ketchum, W.; Kilmer, J.; B, King; Kirby, B.; Kirby, M.; Klein, E.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kreslo, I.; Krull, R. D.; Kubinski, R.; Lange, G. de; Lanni, F.; Lathrop, A.; Laube, A.; Lee, W.M.; Li, Y.; Lissauer, D.; Lister, A.; Littlejohn, B. R.; Lockwitz, S.; Lorca, D.; Louis, W. C.; Lukhanin, G.; Luethi, M.; Lundberg, B.; Luo, X.; Mahler, G.; Majoros, István J.; Makowiecki, D.; Marchionni, A.; Mariani, C.; Markley, D.; Marshall, J.; Caicedo, D. A. Martínez; McDonald, Kirk T.; McKee, D.; McLean, A.I.L.; Mead, Joe; Meddage, V.; Miceli, T.; Mills, G. B.; Miner, W.; Moon, J.; Mooney, M.; Moore, C. D.; Moss, Zander; Mousseau, J.; Murrells, R.; Naples, D.; Nienaber, P.; Norris, B.; Norton, Nancy A.; Nowak, J.; O'Boyle, M.; Olszanowski, T.; Palamara, O.; Paolone, V.; Papavassiliou, V.; Pate, S. F.; Pavlović, Ž.; Pelkey, R.; Phipps, M. W.; Pordes, S.; Porzio, D.; Pulliam, G.; Qian, X.; Raaf, J. L.; Radeka, V.; Rafique, A.; Rameika, R.; Rebel, B.; Rechenmacher, R.; Rescia, S.; Rochester, Lynn; Rohr, C. Rudolf von; Ruga, A.; Russell, B.; Sanders, Robert C.; Sands, W.; Sarychev, Michael; Schmitz, D.; Schukraft, A.; Scott, Robert H.; Seligman, W.; Shaevitz, M. H.; Shoun, M.; Sinclair, J.; Sippach, W.; Smidt, Tess; Smith, A.; Snider, E. L.; Soderberg, M.; Solano-Gonzalez, M.; Söldner-Rembold, S.; Soleti, S. R.; Sondericker, J.; Spentzouris, P.; Spitz, J.; John, J. St.; Strauss, T.; Sutton, K.; Szelc, A. M.; Taheri, K.; Tagg, N.; Tatum, Kenneth E.; Teng, Jun; Terao, K.; Thomson, M. A.; Thorn, C.; Tillman, Justin; Toups, M.; Tsai, Y.-T.; Tufanli, S.; Usher, T.; Utes, M.; Water, R. G. Van de; Vendetta, C.; Vergani, S.; Voirin, E.; Voirin, J.; Viren, B.; Watkins, P. M.; Weber, M.; Wester, T.; Weston, Jason; Wickremasinghe, D. A.; Wolbers, S.; Wongjirad, T.; Woodruff, K.; Wu, Kaiyue; Yang, T.; Yu, B. X.; Zeller, G. P.; Zennamo, J.; Zhang, C.; Zuckerbrot, M.

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/02/p02017

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“…At energies well beyond the critical energy, radiative loss greatly exceeds ionization loss, causing the production of EM showers [19] in which a cascade of electrons and photons produces a dense cloud of charge deposition pointing in the direction of the original electron's momentum. These showers are generated if the energy of the radiative photons is high enough to produce electron-positron pairs, which can, in turn, emit other bremsstrahlung photons.…”

Section: Energy Deposition In Liquid Argonmentioning

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Michel electron reconstruction using cosmic-ray data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC

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et al. 2017

J. Inst.

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A: 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 presented on the reconstruction of Michel electrons produced by the decay at rest of cosmic-ray muons. Michel electrons are abundantly produced in the TPC, and given their well known energy spectrum can be used to study MicroBooNE's detector response to low-energy electrons (electrons with energies up to~50 MeV). We describe the fully-automated algorithm developed to reconstruct Michel electrons, with which a sample of~14,000 Michel electron candidates is obtained. Most of this article is dedicated to studying the impact of radiative photons produced by Michel electrons on the accuracy and resolution of their energy measurement. In this energy range, ionization and bremsstrahlung photon production contribute similarly to electron energy loss in argon, leading to a complex electron topology in the TPC. By profiling the performance of the reconstruction algorithm on simulation we show that the ability to identify and include energy deposited by radiative photons leads to a significant improvement in the energy measurement of low-energy electrons. The fractional energy resolution we measure improves from over 30% to~20% when we attempt to include radiative photons in the reconstruction. These studies are relevant to a large number of analyses which aim to study neutrinos by measuring electrons produced by ν e interactions over a broad energy range. K: Michel electrons, LArTPC, MicroBooNE

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Section: Energy Deposition In Liquid Argonmentioning

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“…MicroBooNE [19] is a 170 metric ton LArTPC currently operating at Fermilab in the Booster Neutrino Beamline. The detector has been operational since summer 2015 and began collecting data with a stable neutrino beam in October of 2015.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Michel electron reconstruction using cosmic-ray data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC

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“…This scattering perturbs the original trajectory of the particle within the material (figure 2). For a given initial momentum p, the angular deflection [5]. PMTs (not shown) are located behind the wire planes.…”

Section: Multiple Coulomb Scatteringmentioning

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“…The MicroBooNE detector [5] consists of a rectangular time-projection chamber (TPC) with dimensions 2.6 m × 2.3 m × 10.4 m (width × height × length) located 470 m downstream from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) target [6]. LArTPCs allow for precise three-dimensional reconstruction of particle interactions.…”

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Determination of muon momentum in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using an improved model of multiple Coulomb scattering

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A: 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). This method does not require the full particle ionization track to be contained inside of the detector volume as other track momentum reconstruction methods do (range-based momentum reconstruction and calorimetric momentum reconstruction). We motivate use of this technique, describe a tuning of the underlying phenomenological formula, quantify its performance on fully contained beam-neutrino-induced muon tracks both in simulation and in data, and quantify its performance on exiting muon tracks in simulation. Using simulation, we have shown that the standard Highland formula should be re-tuned specifically for scattering in liquid argon, which significantly improves the bias and resolution of the momentum measurement. With the tuned formula, we find agreement between data and simulation for contained tracks, with a small bias in the momentum reconstruction and with resolutions that vary as a function of track length, improving from about 10% for the shortest (one meter long) tracks to 5% for longer (several meter) tracks. For simulated exiting muons with at least one meter of track contained, we find a similarly small bias, and a resolution which is less than 15% for muons with momentum below 2 GeV/c. Above 2 GeV/c, results are given as a first estimate of the MCS momentum measurement capabilities of MicroBooNE for high momentum exiting tracks.

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“…The United States neutrino program has decided to use LArTPC technology for the future of its experiments in both long-baseline neutrino oscillations with DUNE [1] and short-baseline neutrino oscillations with ICARUS [2,3], MicroBooNE [4], and SBND [3]. All of these experiments require accurate estimates of oscillated neutrino flavor and energy, which are reconstructed from charged particles and electromagnetic showers, byproducts of the neutrino interactions in LAr.…”

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Pion scattering with LArIat experiment

Hugon¹

2018

Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Neutrinos From Accelerators NUFACT2017 — PoS(NuFact2017)

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This paper presents studies of pion scattering on liquid argon (LAr) with the LArIAT experiment. Pion scattering cross-sections on LAr are an important input to models of neutrino scattering used by current and future LAr neutrino experiments, such as MicroBooNE, SBND, and DUNE. LArIAT is a small LAr time projection chamber (LArTPC) in an instrumented testbeam at Fermilab. The precise calorimetry and tracking of LArTPC technology enable reconstruction of an interacting pion's energy as well as identification of secondary particles produced in the interaction. This makes possible measurement of the total pion-argon cross-section and exclusive interaction channels such as pion absorption, charge exchange, and scattering.

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Design and construction of the MicroBooNE detector

Cited by 380 publications

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Michel electron reconstruction using cosmic-ray data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC

Michel electron reconstruction using cosmic-ray data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC

Determination of muon momentum in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using an improved model of multiple Coulomb scattering

Pion scattering with LArIat experiment

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