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Fernanda Psihas
(Indiana University)
05/06/2017, 08:45
Oral Presentation
A premier challenge of HEP analysis is the interpretation of highly multivariate data. The efforts to extract the strongest measurements from the available data combined with access to large-scale computing resources allow researchers to take advantage of and contribute to the development of cutting-edge machine learning tools. Recent applications have shown that some techniques, especially...
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Jessica Esquivel
(Syracuse University)
05/06/2017, 09:00
Oral Presentation
MicroBooNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) that has been operating for the past 18 months on the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab. MicroBooNE’s physics goals include studying the excess of low energy electromagnetic events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment as well as performing the first set of neutrino-argon cross-section measurements in the 1 GeV energy range....
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Aleena Rafique
(Kansas State University)
05/06/2017, 09:15
Oral Presentation
In this talk, we present a comparison of the observed charged particle multiplicity distributions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber from neutrino interactions in a restricted final state phase space to predictions of this distribution from several GENIE models. The measurement uses a data sample consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon candidate fully...
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Robert Murrells
(University of Manchester)
05/06/2017, 09:30
Oral Presentation
MicroBooNE, an 89 ton (active volume) liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC), began studying neutrino interactions in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) in October 2015. One of its primary physics goals is to investigate the MiniBooNE electromagnetic "Low Energy Excess". A leading interpretation of this excess is single photon production in neutrino neutral current (NC)...
Colton Hill
(The University of Manchester)
05/06/2017, 09:45
Oral Presentation
MicroBooNE is a liquid argon neutrino detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the unique feature to simultaneously receive neutrinos from both Fermilab neutrino beams. The electron neutrino search from the lower-energy on-axis BNB will address MicroBooNE’s signature analysis investigating the low-energy electromagnetic event excess previously observed by the MiniBooNE...
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Victor Genty
(Columbia University, Nevis Labs)
05/06/2017, 10:00
Oral Presentation
MicroBooNE employs the first large scale (> 100 ton) Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) in the U.S. to detect electron and muon neutrinos produced from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB). The primary goal of the experiment is to perform a definitive study of the observed electron neutrino event excess at low energy by the MiniBooNE experiment, which could indicate the...
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Emrah Tiras
(University of Iowa- High Energy Physics)
05/06/2017, 10:15
Oral Presentation
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is located at SciBooNE Hall along the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. It consists of a 23-ton water Cherenkov detector loaded with gadolinium, muon range detector and a veto wall. The main goal of the experiment is to measure the final state neutron multiplicity from charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions within the...
Johnny Ho
(University of Chicago)
05/06/2017, 11:00
Oral Presentation
The LArIAT (Liquid Argon in a Test Beam) experiment in Fermilab's Test Beam Facility exposes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) to a test beam in order to study LArTPC responses to a variety of charged particles. Event identification and reconstruction techniques as well as cross section measurements from LArIAT will provide critical input to existing liquid argon neutrino...
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Nicola McConkey
(University of Sheffield)
05/06/2017, 11:15
Oral Presentation
SBND is the Short Baseline Near Detector, which is a 112 ton liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC) that will be located 110m from the target of the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam. SBND, together with MicroBooNE and ICARUS-T600 detectors at 470m and 600m, respectively, make up the Fermilab Short Baseline Program (SBN).
SBN will search for new physics in the neutrino sector by testing...
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Christopher Hilgenberg
(Colorado State University)
05/06/2017, 11:30
Oral Presentation
The ICARUS T600 liquid argon time-projection chamber will be the far detector for the Short Baseline Neutrino Program. The detector will operate at shallow depth and therefore be exposed to the full surface flux of cosmic rays. Application of overburden attenuates most of this background expected for muons. However, the remaining background is problematic since a photon produced by a muon...
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Siva Prasad Kasetti
(University of Hyderabad, Fermilab)
05/06/2017, 11:45
Oral Presentation
Anomalous results from past neutrino experiments have been interpreted as potential evidence for an additional sterile neutrino with a mass on order of 1 eV, but this evidence remains inconclusive. The NOvA Near Detector is a 300 ton almost fully-active fine-grained liquid scintillator detector, that was designed for electron-neutrino identification. The detector is placed along the Fermilab...
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Rijeesh Keloth
(Cochin University of Science and Technology)
05/06/2017, 12:00
Oral Presentation
Three-flavor neutrino oscillations have successfully explained a wide range of neutrino oscillation experiment results. However, anomalous results, such as the electron-antineutrino appearance excesses seen by LSND and MiniBooNE, do not fit the three-flavor paradigm and can be explained by the addition of a sterile neutrino at a larger mass scale than the existing three flavor mass...
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Alejandro Diaz
(Graduate Student (MIT))
05/06/2017, 12:15
Oral Presentation
Neutrino oscillations have provided proof of the existence of massive neutrino states. The standard model currently accepts the existence of three different neutrinos, but oscillation experiments such as LSND and MiniBooNE have detected an excess of neutrinos above that expected from a standard 3 neutrino model. We will discuss this excess, and explain how an explanation could lie in the...