| Title: |
Rejecting cosmic background for exclusive charged current quasi elastic neutrino interaction studies with Liquid Argon TPCs; a case study with the MicroBooNE detector |
| Authors: |
Adams, C; Alrashed, M; An, R; Anthony, J; Asaadi, J; Ashkenazi, A; Auger, M; Balasubramanian, S; Baller, B; Barnes, C; Barr, G; Bass, M; Bay, F; Bhat, A; Bhattacharya, K; Bishai, M; Blake, A; Bolton, T; Camilleri, L; Caratelli, D; Terrazas, I Caro; Carr, R; Fernandez, R Castillo; Cavanna, F; Cerati, G; Chen, Y; Church, E; Cianci, D; Cohen, EO; Collin, GH; Conrad, JM; Convery, M; Cooper-Troendle, L; Crespo-Anadón, JI; Del Tutto, M; Devitt, A; Diaz, A; Duffy, K; Dytman, S; Eberly, B; Ereditato, A; Sanchez, L Escudero; Esquivel, J; Evans, JJ; Fadeeva, AA; Fitzpatrick, RS; Fleming, BT; Franco, D; Furmanski, AP; Garcia-Gamez, D; Genty, V; Goeldi, D; Gollapinni, S; Goodwin, O; Gramellini, E; Greenlee, H; Grosso, R; Guenette, R; Guzowski, P; Hackenburg, A; Hamilton, P; Hen, O; Hewes, J; Hill, C; Horton-Smith, GA; Hourlier, A; Huang, E-C; James, C; de Vries, J Jan; Ji, X; Jiang, L; Johnson, RA; Joshi, J; Jostlein, H; Jwa, Y-J; Karagiorgi, G; Ketchum, W; Kirby, B; Kirby, M; Kobilarcik, T; Kreslo, I; Lepetic, I; Li, Y; Lister, A; Littlejohn, BR; Lockwitz, S; Lorca, D; Louis, WC; Luethi, M; Lundberg, B; Luo, X; Marchionni, A; Marcocci, S; Mariani, C; Marshall, J; Martin-Albo, J; Caicedo, DA Martinez; Mastbaum, A; Meddage, V; Mettler, T; Mistry, K; Mogan, A; Moon, J; Mooney, M; Moore, CD; Mousseau, J; Murphy, M; Murrells, R; Naples, D; Nienaber, P; Nowak, J; Palamara, O; Pandey, V; Paolone, V; Papadopoulou, A; Papavassiliou, V; Pate, SF; Pavlovic, Z; Piasetzky, E; Porzio, D; Pulliam, G; Qian, X; Raaf, JL; Rafique, A; Ren, L; Rochester, L; Ross-Lonergan, M; von Rohr, C Rudolf; Russell, B; Scanavini, G; Schmitz, DW; Schukraft, A; Seligman, W; Shaevitz, MH; Sharankova, R; Sinclair, J; Smith, A; Snider, EL; Soderberg, M; Söldner-Rembold, S; Soleti, SR; Spentzouris, P; Spitz, J; John, J St; Strauss, T; Sutton, K; Sword-Fehlberg, S; Szelc, AM; Tagg, N; Tang, W; Terao, K; Thomson, M; Thornton, RT; Toups, M; Tsai, Y-T; Tufanli, S; Usher, T; Van De Pontseele, W; Van de Water, RG; Viren, B; Weber, M; Wei, H; Wickremasinghe, DA; Wierman, K; Williams, Z; Wolbers, S; Wongjirad, T; Woodruff, K; Yang, T; Yarbrough, G; Yates, LE; Zeller, GP; Zennamo, J; Zhang, C |
| Publisher Information: |
Springer Nature; //doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7184-7 |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Subject Terms: |
5106 Nuclear and Plasma Physics; 5107 Particle and High Energy Physics; 51 Physical Sciences |
| Description: |
Cosmic ray (CR) interactions can be a challenging source of background for neutrino oscillation and cross-section measurements in surface detectors. We present methods for CR rejection in measurements of charged-current quasielastic-like (CCQE-like) neutrino interactions, with a muon and a proton in the final state, measured using liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). Using a sample of cosmic data collected with the MicroBooNE detector, mixed with simulated neutrino scattering events, a set of event selection criteria is developed that produces an event sample with minimal contribution from CR background. Depending on the selection criteria used a purity between 50 and 80% can be achieved with a signal selection efficiency between 50 and 25%, with higher purity coming at the expense of lower efficiency. While using a specific dataset and selection criteria values optimized for the MicroBooNE detector, the concepts presented here are generic and can be adapted for various studies of exclusive νμ$$\nu _{\mu }$$ CCQE interactions in LArTPCs. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text/xml; application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
7184; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/308980 |
| DOI: |
10.17863/CAM.56071 |
| Availability: |
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/308980; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.56071 |
| Rights: |
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.D9852001 |
| Database: |
BASE |