Search for a Low Energy Excess in MicroBooNE

2019/05/14 by N. Foppiani, Foppiani, Nicolò
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1905.05325

openalex publication_date 2019/05/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

MicroBooNE (the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment) is a liquid argon time-projection chamber (TPC) experiment designed for short-baseline neutrino physics, currently running at Fermilab. It aims to address the anomalous excess of low-energy events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment. Recent progress towards the search for the low-energy events have brought to develop fully automated event selection algorithm to identify charged-current electron neutrino event candidates with no pions and at least one proton in the final state (ν_e~CC 0πNp) using the Pandora multi-algorithm pattern recognition. Several cross checks and sidebands have been studied so far to validate the analysis.

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