| Title: |
Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber |
| Authors: |
Abratenko, P; Alterkait, O; Aldana, D Andrade; Arellano, L; Asaadi, J; Ashkenazi, A; Balasubramanian, S; Baller, B; Barnard, A; Barr, G; Barrow, D; Barrow, J; Basque, V; Bateman, J; Rodrigues, O Benevides; Berkman, S; Bhanderi, A; Bhat, A; Bhattacharya, M; Bishai, M; Blake, A; Bogart, B; Bolton, T; Book, JY; Brunetti, MB; Camilleri, L; Cao, Y; Caratelli, D; Cavanna, F; Cerati, G; Chappell, A; Chen, Y; Conrad, JM; Convery, M; Cooper-Troendle, L; Crespo-Anadón, JI; Cross, R; Del Tutto, M; Dennis, SR; Detje, P; Diurba, R; Djurcic, Z; Dorrill, R; Duffy, K; Dytman, S; Eberly, B; Englezos, P; Ereditato, A; Evans, JJ; Fine, R; Foreman, W; Fleming, BT; Franco, D; Furmanski, AP; Gao, F; Garcia-Gamez, D; Gardiner, S; Ge, G; Gollapinni, S; Gramellini, E; Green, P; Greenlee, H; Gu, L; Gu, W; Guenette, R; Guzowski, P; Hagaman, L; Handley, MD; Hen, O; Hilgenberg, C; Horton-Smith, GA; Imani, Z; Irwin, B; Ismail, MS; James, C; Ji, X; Jo, JH; Johnson, RA; Jwa, Y-J; Kalra, D; Kamp, N; Karagiorgi, G; Ketchum, W; Kirby, M; Kobilarcik, T; Kreslo, I; Lane, N; Li, J-Y; Li, Y; Lin, K; Littlejohn, BR; Liu, H; Louis, WC; Luo, X; Mariani, C; Marsden, D; Marshall, J; Martinez, N; Caicedo, DA Martinez; Martynenko, S; Mastbaum, A; Mawby, I; McConkey, N; Meddage, V; Mendez, J; Micallef, J; Miller, K; Mogan, A; Mohayai, T; Mooney, M; Moor, AF; Moore, CD; Lepin, L Mora; Moudgalya, MM; Mulleriababu, S; Naples, D; Navrer-Agasson, A; Nayak, N; Nebot-Guinot, M; Nguyen, C; Nowak, J; Oza, N; Palamara, O; Pallat, N; Paolone, V; Papadopoulou, A; Papavassiliou, V; Parkinson, HB; Pate, SF; Patel, N; Pavlovic, Z; Piasetzky, E; Pletcher, K; Pophale, I; Qian, X; Raaf, JL; Radeka, V; Rafique, A; Reggiani-Guzzo, M; Ren, L; Rochester, L; Rondon, J Rodriguez; Rosenberg, M; Ross-Lonergan, M; Safa, I; Schmitz, DW; Schukraft, A; Seligman, W; Shaevitz, MH; Sharankova, R; Shi, J; Snider, EL; Soderberg, M; Söldner-Rembold, S; Spitz, J; Stancari, M; John, J St; Strauss, T; Szelc, AM; Tang, W; Taniuchi, N; Terao, K; Thorpe, C; Torbunov, D; Totani, D; Toups, M; Trettin, A; Tsai, Y-T; Tyler, J; Uchida, MA; Usher, T; Viren, B; Wang, J; Weber, M; Wei, H; White, AJ; Wolbers, S; Wongjirad, T; Wospakrik, M; Wresilo, K; Wu, W; Yandel, E; Yang, T; Yates, LE; Yu, HW; Zeller, GP; Zennamo, J; Zhang, C |
| Publisher Information: |
Springer Nature; //doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13423-z |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Subject Terms: |
5106 Nuclear and Plasma Physics; 5107 Particle and High Energy Physics; 5110 Synchrotrons and Accelerators; 51 Physical Sciences |
| 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%$$60\%$$ 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. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf; text/xml |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
13423; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/377043 |
| Availability: |
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/377043 |
| Rights: |
Attribution 4.0 International ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.9ABC97E |
| Database: |
BASE |