Boosted Decision Tree Based Single Electron Selection in MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber with an active volume of 85 metric tons located on the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab and has been collecting data since fall 2015. One of the primary physics goals of MicroBooNE is to investigate the "Low Energy Excess" of neutrino events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment. Two general candidate interpretations have been suggested as explanations to the MiniBooNE signal: the first is electron neutrino charged current quasi-elastic-like events, which could be identified by MicroBooNE with an event signature of one electron shower along with a number of proton tracks; the second interpretation is neutral current neutrino interactions that result in single photon production, which could be identified with an event signature of one detached photon shower along with a number of proton tracks associated with the interaction vertex. A Boosted Decision Tree (BDT) based event selection has been developed by MicroBooNE in the search for single photon events. This talk presents a variation of the selection that is instead optimized for the electron interpretation and the current performance of the electron selection BDT.