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Please see below for links to our virtual reality poster session. Note the the times associated with specific posters were only assigned to organize the materials visually, and that all posters and presenters are expected to be available for the entirely of the session.
If observed, neutrino-less double beta decay could provide answers for many current mysteries in particle physics, such as the possibility of Lepton number conservation violation, matter-antimatter asymmetry and neutrino mass ordering. This project examined the capability of a theoretical enhanced (through the doping of the detector medium with $^{136}$Xe, a double beta decay candidate) Deep...
Current and future generation neutrino oscillation experiments aim towards a high-precision mea-
surement of the oscillation parameters and that requires an unprecedented understanding of
neutrino-nucleus scattering. Charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) scattering is the process in
which the neutrino produces a charged lepton and removes a single intact nucleon from the nu-
cleus without...
NOvA is a long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment that uses the NuMI beam from Fermilab to measure electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance using a Near Detector, located at Fermilab, and a Far Detector, located in Ash River, Minnesota. The high flux of muon neutrinos at the Near Detector allows for measurement of rare processes such as neutrino...
I will present a search for the decays of a neutral scalar boson produced by kaons decaying at rest, in the context of the Higgs Portal model, using the MicroBooNE detector. We analyze data triggered in time with the spill of the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam (the neutrino beamline used by e.g. the $\textrm{NO}\nu\textrm{A}$ experiment), with an exposure of $1.93\times10^{20}$ protons on target....
The MicroBooNE detector at Fermilab was built to primarily investigate the “low energy excess” (LEE) of electron neutrino and antineutrino charged current quasi-elastic events observed in the MiniBooNE experiment. One of the possible interpretations of the MiniBooNE LEE is that it is comprised of neutrino-induced single-photon events. MicroBooNE is testing this hypothesis via a study of...
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a 26-ton Gadolinium-loaded, water-based detector located on the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) with the goals of: (1) measuring the neutron abundance in the final state of neutrino-nucleus interactions, and (2) demonstrating advanced neutrino detection technology. The physics measurement of ANNIE will have a direct impact...
MicroBooNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber detector
designed to address the excess of low energy electromagnetic events observed by the
MiniBooNE experiment. Electron neutrinos can create a wide variety of topologies when
interacting in liquid argon, and this analysis measures events both with (1eNp0π) and
without (1e0p0π) visible protons. This poster presents the measurement of...
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Situated 14.6 mrad off-axis of the NuMI beam produced at Fermilab, the detectors are exposed to a ${\nu}_{\mu}$ ($\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$) beam peaked at 2 GeV. By measuring ${\nu}_{\mu}$ ($\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$) disappearance and ${\nu}_{e}$ ($\bar{\nu}_{e}$) appearance between the NOvA Near Detector and the 14 kiloton Far Detector, the experiment...
We quantify bipartite and tripartite entanglement for two and three flavor neutrino oscillations in terms of two and three-qubit states (known as W states) used in quantum information theory. We calculate the concurrence , negativity and three tangle and show genuine tripartite entanglement in terms of a residual entanglement that satisfies a monogamy inequality. We use this analogy to...
The ICARUS T600 liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) will soon begin taking data on Fermilab’s Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB). In preparation for its operations, we present an analysis of “online” data quality monitoring of the liquid argon purity. We evaluated the performance of the algorithm on simulated cosmic ray muon interactions in the ICARUS detector. Comparing the measured...
In sterile neutrino(3+1) parameterisation, we observe that sterile phases ($\delta_{14},\delta_{24}$) are always together in oscillation probability, even when the MSW effect is considered. We see that the difference between the sterile phases has a more dominating effect over event rates compared to small variations due to changes in individual values. In this work, we show the value of...
The present work is inspired to execute the $A_4$ modular symmetry in linear seesaw framework by limiting the use of multiple flavon fields. Linear seesaw is acknowledged by extending the Standard Model particle spectrum with six heavy fermions and a singlet scalar. The non-trivial transformation of Yukawa coupling under the $A_4$ modular symmetry helps to explore the neutrino phenomenology...
Recent $\nu_e$ appearance data from the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE) are in support of the excess of events reported by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND), which provides an indirect hint for the existence of eV-scale sterile neutrino. As these sterile neutrinos can mix with the standard active neutrinos, in this paper we explore the effect of such...
The MicroBooNE experiment is an 85 ton active volume liquid-argon time projection chamber located at the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beamline. MicroBooNE’s ability to detect low-energy protons allows us to study single-proton events with a four-momentum transfer squared $Q^2$ as low as 0.10 $GeV^2$. We present an analysis with a signal of one proton and no other particles (NC1p) in the final...
ProtoDUNE-SP at the CERN Neutrino Platform is a test bed liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) for the far-detector in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). Space charge effects, attenuation due to electronegative impurities, diffusion, and electronics gain variations cause nonuniformities in charge deposition per unit length (dQ/dx) within a LArTPC. Corrections for space...
Are you tired of having to join multiple collaborations? Do you struggle to keep track of different detectors, readouts, and active materials to do different physics? Do you wish you could do all the most interesting physics in just one experiment? There has to be a better way! Introducing DUNE-beta. It has argon! It has Xenon! It can fill all your double beta, oscillations, and supernova...
The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber with an active volume of 7.2×6.0×6.9 m^3. It takes a specially-constructed beam that delivers multiple kinds of particles including charged pions, kaons, protons, muons and electrons with momenta in the range 0.3 GeV/c to 7 GeV/c. The ProtoDUNE-SP detector also serves as a prototype for the first far detector...
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, which consists of two finely-segmented liquid-scintillator detectors operating 14.6 mrad off-axis from Fermilab’s NuMI muon neutrino beam. With an 810 km baseline, the measurements of muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance allow the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy, the octant of the largest neutrino...
Deep learning techniques are being widely used in high energy physics and they are playing a significant role in the reconstruction of the neutrino interactions in particle detectors. However, those algorithms normally use 2D images as inputs. Here, we consider a unique approach of using a simple 1D convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) to look directly at raw waveforms from single wires in a...
An accurate calorimetric reconstruction is an integral component of liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiments such as ICARUS. Energy, more specifically energy loss per unit length or $\frac{dE}{dx}$, is used in higher levels of data reconstruction like particle identification, so it is crucial that reconstructed energy is as accurate as possible. Calculating $\frac{dE}{dx}$...
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are an important technology in the field of experimental neutrino physics due to their exceptional calorimetric and position resolution capabilities. In particular, their ability to distinguish electrons from photons is crucial for current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. The MicroBooNE experiment is utilizing LArTPC technology to...