Doping the MicroBooNE LArTPC With Radon
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Abstract
We present a plan to dope MicroBooNE, an 85-ton active-volume liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) located at Fermilab, with radon. MicroBooNE has been successfully detecting $\sim$GeV energy neutrinos from the Booster Neutrino Beam since 2015, however few studies have been performed at MeV energies. The associated decay activity from the radon will allow us to study detector properties not easily accessible at higher energies, namely MeV-scale energy resolution and electron diffusion. Such studies are especially important for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a multi-kiloton-scale, next-generation long-baseline experiment and its low-energy physics goals, such as supernova neutrino reconstruction. This talk will present an overview of the doping program, its goals and its benefits to future LArTPCs.
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Authors
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Ivan Lepetic
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey