Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber
A significant challenge in measurements of neutrino oscillations is reconstructing the incoming neutrino energies. While modern fully-active tracking calorimeters such as liquid argon time projection chambers in principle allow the measurement of all final state particles above some detection thresh...
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| author | Abratenko, P Alterkait, O Aldana, DA Arellano, L Asaadi, J Ashkenazi, A Balasubramanian, S Baller, B Barnard, A Barr, G Barrow, D Barrow, J Basque, V Bateman, J Rodrigues, OB Berkman, S Bhanderi, A Bhat, A Bhattacharya, M Bishai, M Blake, A Bogart, B Bolton, T Book, JY Duffy, K Green, P |
| author_facet | Abratenko, P Alterkait, O Aldana, DA Arellano, L Asaadi, J Ashkenazi, A Balasubramanian, S Baller, B Barnard, A Barr, G Barrow, D Barrow, J Basque, V Bateman, J Rodrigues, OB Berkman, S Bhanderi, A Bhat, A Bhattacharya, M Bishai, M Blake, A Bogart, B Bolton, T Book, JY Duffy, K Green, P |
| author_sort | Abratenko, P |
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| description | A significant challenge in measurements of neutrino oscillations is reconstructing the incoming neutrino energies. While modern fully-active tracking calorimeters such as liquid argon time projection chambers in principle allow the measurement of all final state particles above some detection threshold, undetected neutrons remain a considerable source of missing energy with little to no data constraining their production rates and kinematics. We present the first demonstration of tagging neutrino-induced neutrons in liquid argon time projection chambers using secondary protons emitted from neutron-argon interactions in the MicroBooNE detector. We describe the method developed to identify neutrino-induced neutrons and demonstrate its performance using neutrons produced in muon-neutrino charged current interactions. The method is validated using a small subset of MicroBooNE’s total dataset. The selection yields a sample with 60% of selected tracks corresponding to neutron-induced secondary protons. At this purity, the integrated efficiency is 8.4% for neutrons that produce a detectable proton. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:638bbecf-0f6b-4c9c-8472-2a6610ec4c6c2024-10-14T20:10:40ZDemonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamberJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:638bbecf-0f6b-4c9c-8472-2a6610ec4c6cEnglishJisc Publications RouterSpringerOpen2024Abratenko, PAlterkait, OAldana, DAArellano, LAsaadi, JAshkenazi, ABalasubramanian, SBaller, BBarnard, ABarr, GBarrow, DBarrow, JBasque, VBateman, JRodrigues, OBBerkman, SBhanderi, ABhat, ABhattacharya, MBishai, MBlake, ABogart, BBolton, TBook, JYDuffy, KGreen, PA significant challenge in measurements of neutrino oscillations is reconstructing the incoming neutrino energies. While modern fully-active tracking calorimeters such as liquid argon time projection chambers in principle allow the measurement of all final state particles above some detection threshold, undetected neutrons remain a considerable source of missing energy with little to no data constraining their production rates and kinematics. We present the first demonstration of tagging neutrino-induced neutrons in liquid argon time projection chambers using secondary protons emitted from neutron-argon interactions in the MicroBooNE detector. We describe the method developed to identify neutrino-induced neutrons and demonstrate its performance using neutrons produced in muon-neutrino charged current interactions. The method is validated using a small subset of MicroBooNE’s total dataset. The selection yields a sample with 60% of selected tracks corresponding to neutron-induced secondary protons. At this purity, the integrated efficiency is 8.4% for neutrons that produce a detectable proton. |
| spellingShingle | Abratenko, P Alterkait, O Aldana, DA Arellano, L Asaadi, J Ashkenazi, A Balasubramanian, S Baller, B Barnard, A Barr, G Barrow, D Barrow, J Basque, V Bateman, J Rodrigues, OB Berkman, S Bhanderi, A Bhat, A Bhattacharya, M Bishai, M Blake, A Bogart, B Bolton, T Book, JY Duffy, K Green, P Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber |
| title | Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber |
| title_full | Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber |
| title_fullStr | Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber |
| title_full_unstemmed | Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber |
| title_short | Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber |
| title_sort | demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the microboone liquid argon time projection chamber |
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