Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session R12: Mini-Symposium: Constraining the Neutrino-nucleus Interaction for Neutrino Oscillations II
1:30 PM–3:18 PM,
Monday, April 15, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Plaza Court 1
Sponsoring
Units:
DNP DPF
Chair: Alex Himmel, Fermilab
Abstract: R12.00009 : Systematic Studies in the Single Photon Analysis of the MicroBooNE Experiment*
3:06 PM–3:18 PM
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Presenter:
Gray Langley Yarbrough
(University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Author:
Gray Langley Yarbrough
(University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Collaboration:
MicroBooNE
The MicroBooNE detector was built with the investigation of the “low energy excess” (LEE) of electron neutrino and antineutrino charged current quasi-elastic events observed in the MiniBooNE experiment as one of its primary physics goals. One of the possible interpretations of the MiniBooNE LEE is that it is made up of neutrino-induced single-photon events. An analysis effort is underway at MicroBooNE to test this hypothesis via study of neutral current resonant delta production with subsequent radiative decay. This talk will cover the studies underway to fully understand the systematic uncertainties of this single photon analysis, including re-weighting Monte Carlo events to estimate the effect of many flux and cross-section uncertainties and the testing of the impact of detector simulation on the analysis results.
*Personally funded as a Graduate Student by the University of Tennessee Knoxville MicroBooNE experiment funded by Department of Energy
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