31 July 2017 to 4 August 2017
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
US/Central timezone

Measurement of Reconstructed Charged Particle Multiplicities of Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE

1 Aug 2017, 11:21
18m
Ramsey Auditorium (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Ramsey Auditorium

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Kirk Road & Pine Street Batavia, IL 60510-5011
Presentation Neutrino Physics Neutrino Physics

Speaker

Ms Aleena Rafique (Kansas State University)

Description

MicroBooNE is a liquid argon Time Projection Chamber experiment situated on the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab that is designed to probe neutrino interactions, investigate non-standard neutrino oscillations, and further develop the LArTPC detector technology. In this talk, we compare the observed charged particle multiplicity distribution, which is produced via neutrino charged current interactions in the visible phase-space to predictions of this distribution from current generator models. The data used in this analysis were collected in 2015-2016 by MicroBooNE detector. The analysis employs a fully automatic event selection and charged particle track reconstruction and uses a novel data-driven technique to separate neutrino interactions from cosmic-induced backgrounds.

Primary authors

Ms Aleena Rafique (Kansas State University) Tim Bolton (Kansas State University)

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