Constraining Electron Neutrino Systematic Uncertainties with Muon Neutrino Events in MicroBooNE
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Abstract
MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment based at Fermilab that utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber located on-axis in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB). One of the experiment’s main goals is a search for the excess of electron-neutrino-like events seen by the MiniBooNE experiment, located near MicroBooNE in the BNB. I will describe the status of our deep-learning-based search for low-energy electron neutrino interactions within the MicroBooNE detector and the muon neutrino interactions by which we will constrain them. In particular, I will present the muon neutrino event selection, the systematic uncertainties associated with neutrino-argon interactions, and the technique we plan to use for constraining systematic uncertainties on electron neutrino scattering on argon using muon neutrino data.
*This research was prepared by the MicroBooNE collaboration using the resources of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, HEP User Facility. MicroBooNE is supported by: the US DOE, Office of Science, Offices of High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics; the US National Science Foundation; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; and The Royal Society (UK).
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Presenters
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Lauren E. Yates
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology