Speaker
Dr
Reddy Pratap Gandrajula
(Michigan State University)
Description
Two of the flagship analyses at the DUNE far detector are to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and to measure the CP violating phase, using the appearance of electron-neutrino signal events in the far detector. To efficiently select signal events, we require robust shower reconstruction tools to achieve the maximal electron/photon separation. We present a summary of existing shower reconstruction algorithms, and their efficiency and performance by calculating the shower purity and completeness, as well as the dE/dX distributions for electron and photon showers. We also explore possible areas of improvements for the electron shower reconstruction for better electron-neutrino signal reconstruction.
Primary author
Dr
Reddy Pratap Gandrajula
(Michigan State University)
Co-author
On behalf of ,
(DUNE Collaboration)