Speaker
Mr
Stefano Roberto Soleti
(University of Oxford)
Description
The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber at Fermilab designed for short-baseline neutrino oscillation physics and neutrino-argon interaction cross-section measurements. Due to its location near the surface, a good understanding of cosmic muons as a source of backgrounds is of fundamental importance for the experiment. This talk will show recent results on MicroBooNE detector performance from our first 18 months of running and a method to determine the cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiency using an external cosmic-ray counter, installed above the main detector.
The analysis represents a small-scale demonstration of the method that can be used with future data coming from a recently installed cosmic-ray tagger system, which is able to tag ≈ 80% of the cosmic rays passing through the MicroBooNE detector.
Primary author
Mr
Stefano Roberto Soleti
(University of Oxford)