Users Meeting 2023

Session

Poster Session

28 Jun 2023, 18:00

Ramsey Auditorium

Conveners

Poster Session

• Sophie Middleton (Caltech)

Presentation materials

Poster - contributions(4).pdf

Contribution list Timetable

62. "Freight Train" production model on the NOvA experiment and NOvA efforts at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

Andrew Dye

A large obstacle for any experiment is how to store, move, and process a large amount of data effectively. On the NuMI Off-axis $\nu_e$ Appearance (NO$\nu$A) experiment this is a rather substantial obstacle. The traditional method of grabbing a file is by categorizing all the files we care about by event-type and then going through each tape and gathering all files of that type. This is not...

4. A Low Energy Muon test beam in the MTA Experimental Area

Steven Boi

A new secondary beamline was recently installed in the MeV Test Area (MTA) with the objective of enhancing mu+/mu- production by factors of 3/8 by using a tungsten target versus the conventional graphite production target using the 400 MeV Fermilab proton Linac beam. Ultra-low energy muon beams can support world-class physics experiments for fundamental muon measurements, sensitive searches...

33. A Measurement of the Ambient Radon Rate and MeV-Scale Calorimetry in the MicroBooNE LArTPC

Will Foreman (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Many physics goals of future large LAr detectors like DUNE hinge on the achievement of high radio-purity to minimize backgrounds to low-energy signals like supernova and solar neutrinos. Radon in particular is a concerning source of backgrounds, as its progeny generate diffuse signals from betas, gammas, and neutrons at the MeV-scale. In this talk, we report measured limits on the specific...

1. Applying Machine Learning to vertex recognition for neutrino interactions

Oscar Moreno Palacios

The MINERvA experiment studies neutrinos cross sections with different nuclei. Neutrino vertex recognition plays a key role in reconstructing neutrino interactions. This research aims to enhance previous Machine Learning neutrino vertex recognition models produced in MINERvA using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN). The approach focuses on extending neutrino interaction image...

70. Assembly Automation and Quality Control for Upgrades to the CMS Outer Tracker Modules

Mary Haag (University of Iowa)

Last summer I worked at the Silicon Detector facility at Fermilab on automation and quality control techniques for 2S and PS sensor modules that are going into CMS at CERN in order to prepare it for the high luminosity era of LHC. While there, I worked on a laser scanning procedure that ensured that 2S sensor modules were manufactured to the proper specifications, as well as an automated...

69. Compact Muon Solenoid Forward Pixel Upgrade

Beren Ozek

High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) upgrade aims to increase the performance. In order to efficiently handle the larger particle flux and increased radiation, an upgrade is planned for the Forward Pixel part of the inner Tracker of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector, which is located at the innermost part of the CMS. To maintain efficiently reconstruct and track particles, the...

49. Differential Scanning Calorimeter Calibration and Measurement

Sebastian Szczech

The differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) 404 F3 is a machine that heats up to 1500 degrees Celsius, and collects/evaluates thermal properties such as heat capacity, crystallization, glass transition, and more. The first part of the project is based around calibrating the DSC 404 F3 using the given procedures and manuals. This ensures that the DSC 404 F3 is working properly and does not...

3. Dopant R&D in LArTPCs

Raisa Tasnim Raofa

Neutrinos interact with matter very weakly making it hard to detect despite being the most abundant particle in the universe. Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detects neutrinos by measuring the resultant charge and light after the interaction between neutrino and argon particles. However, in LArTPCs, light collection efficiency is much lower than charge...

47. Enhanced Slip-Stacking Techniques for Particle Accelerators: Analytical, Numerical, and Experimental Investigation

Mohammad Habibeh

Particle accelerators employ slip-stacking configurations to store two particle beams with disparate momenta within a single ring. Additionally, A novel slip-stacking configuration employing a harmonic RF cavity was proposed and studied. Anticipated benefits of the harmonic cavity include mitigating parametric resonances, minimizing emittance growth, and significantly expanding the stable...

63. Exploring the Dark Sector in MicroBooNE Through e+e- Final States

Leon Tong (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

$\quad$ MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment at Fermilab that ran from 2015 to 2020. It uses a liquid Argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) to detect neutrino events from a flux of predominantly muon neutrinos. In 2018, its predecessor MiniBooNE published results showing the detection of a significant excess of electromagnetic events in its data compared to expectation. The MiniBooNE anomaly...

65. High Yield Muon Catalyzed Fusion & Muonium

Erica Garcia Badaracco

Fusion holds great promise as a clean and abundant energy source. However, traditional thermonuclear fusion encounters significant challenges due to the extreme temperatures required to overcome the coulomb barrier for two nuclei to fuse. In contrast, muon-catalyzed fusion presents an alternative approach that can surmount this barrier at significantly lower temperatures. Muons, with...

12. Identification of Cosmic Rays in the ICARUS Experiment Using Precision Timing

Anna Heggestuen (Colorado State University)

After operating for 3-years in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory and receiving significant upgrades at CERN, the ICARUS detector was transported to Fermilab to serve as the Far Detector in the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program. The SBN program is composed of three Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) with a central goal of testing the sterile neutrino hypothesis. At Fermilab...

73. In-Network DAQ Functions

Nik Sultana (Fermilab Quantum Institute and the Real-time Processing Systems Division)

A revolution in networking is changing how we compute, but we lack the tools that can channel this new capability to benefit science. It is now possible to write programs that operate "in" the network---on network cards (NICs) and network switches themselves, rather than on servers. These programs can analyze and reduce huge volumes of data as they flow through the network---at higher...

68. Logistics of High Throughput Data Transfer in High Energy Physics

Orgho Neogi

High Energy physics analysis requires a large amount of data, which is increasing at an ever faster pace. Often this data is not stored at the computing resource where it is meant to be processed especially when there is a need for GPU's due to usage of machine learning, leading to a need for fast, robust and reliable methods of data transfer. Existing methods range from scp which has the...

2. Magnetometry Cross-Calibration for Muon g-2 Experiments

Matthew Bressler (Drexel University)

Precise determination of the muon anomalous magnetic moment in a storage ring experiment relies equally on the ability to measure the muons’ spin precession frequency and the magnetic field that the muons experience. In the Fermilab E989 Muon g-2 experiment, the 1.45 T magnetic field is regularly mapped by a “trolley” containing an array of 17 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) probes filled...

66. MTA Removable Beam Absorber

Efren Blas (fermilab)

Once commissioned, the secondary production beamline in the MeV Test Area (MTA) will require a removable beam absorber for continuous beam operation. A 4" x 4" x 4" tungsten core will absorb the full 15 Hz 400 MeV Fermilab Linac primary proton beam. However, the residual activation will constrain work activities in the hall, so a 1' marble casing is proposed entombing the core. Marble has...

48. Mu2e stopping target monitor data flow

Pawel Plesniak

The Mu2e experiment seeks to probe BSM physics through improving upon the limit for neutrinoless muon to electron conversion in a nuclear potential by four orders of magnitude. The current experimental limit of $R_{\mu e}<7\times10^{-13}$ was set by SINDRUM II in 2006. The STM provides the normalisation of the experiment by measuring the rate of muon capture on Mu2e’s aluminum target...

6. Neutrino Beam Instrumentation (NBI) for LBNF

Sudeshna Ganguly (Fermilab)

The upcoming Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will generate a world-leading neutrino beam. The baseline beamline design involves a 1.2-MW, 120-GeV primary proton beam directed at a cylindrical graphite target, measuring 1.8 m in length and 16 mm in diameter. Three magnetic horns, supported inside horn 1, focus the hadrons produced in the target using 300kA currents. Additionally, there...

56. NuMI Hadron Monitor calibration stand

Maan Abdelhamid (Fermilab)

The objective of the project is to develop a calibration stand for the NuMI Hadron Monitor. This monitor consists of a 5x5 grid of ionization chambers and is positioned downstream of the target system to detect charged particles that are extracted from the target. The monitor plays a crucial role in accurately aligning the target on the beamline. The calibration stand is made to calibrate the...

41. NuMI neutrino-Ar cross-section measurements @ ICARUS

Guadalupe Moreno (Cinvestav)

These days, experimental neutrino physics is going through a fascinating time due to the high-precision measurements, in huge detectors, expected from experiments to come, e.g. DUNE. At Fermilab, there is a Short-Baseline Neutrino program (SBN) searching for sterile neutrino signatures. This program consists of near and far detectors that use the LAr TPC technology, positioned along the axis...

71. Photon Detectors for the DUNE Vertical Drift Module-0

Sarah Choate

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will use an intense neutrino beam starting from Fermilab (Chicago) with a Near Detector to monitor the beam and a Far Detector installed in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF - South Dakota), 1300 km away. The Near Detector complex at Fermilab will have three components, including Liquid Argon and high-pressure gas TPCs which can be...

64. Physics of Neutrino Oscillations and Neutrino Cross Sections using the NOvA Experiment

Dr Prabhjot Singh (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

NOvA is a long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino experiment based in the US. NOvA uses an intense neutrino beam produced at Fermilab’s accelerator complex to make physics measurements of neutrino oscillations, neutrino cross sections, and much more. For its physics goals, NOvA uses two functionally-identical detectors. The Near Detector (ND) is situated at Fermilab, 1 km from the neutrino...

13. Power Over Fiber for the DUNE Vertical Drift PDS

Alex Heindel (South Dakota School of Mines & Technolog)

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment that will send an intense beam of neutrinos through two particle detectors; a near detector located at Fermilab (Chicago) and far detector located at ~1.5 km underground and ~1300km from the near detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota.

The DUNE far detector will be...

72. Prospects for the Measurement of the Standard Model Higgs Production at the Muon Colliders

Shivani Lomte (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

We study the Higgs production process at a muon collider using b-pair decays of the Higgs bosons. Efficient identification and good measurement resolution for the b-jet pair invariant mass are crucial for unearthing the Higgs signal. However, the beam-induced background has potential to drastically degrade the performance. We report on the full simulation studies of the degradation of the...

67. Reconstruction study of the 2x2 near detector prototype

Orgho Neogi

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will address open issues in neutrino physics such as the measurement of the CP-violating phase in neutrino oscillations and the neutrino mass ordering. The 2x2 demonstrator is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC), with four modules, operated as a prototype for the DUNE liquid argon near detector (ND-LAr). Based on the...

46. Signal Processing in SBND with WireCell

Lynn Tung (University of Chicago), Mun Jung Jung (the University of Chicago)

The Short Baseline Near Detector (SBND), a 112 ton liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC), is the near detector of the Short Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab. In a LArTPC, ionization electrons from a charged particle track drift along the electric field lines, inducing bipolar signals on the induction planes, and a unipolar signal collected on the collection plane. In this talk, we...

10. Simulation of Beam-induced Backgrounds for the Cool Copper Collider

Elias Mettner (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Electron-positron pair production and hadron photoproduction are the most critical beam-induced backgrounds at linear electron-positron colliders. Predicting them accurately governs the design and optimization of detectors at these machines and, ultimately, their physics reach. With the proposal, adoption, and first specification of the C$^3$ collider concept, it is of primary importance to...

9. Survey of centimeter-scale AC-LGAD strip sensors with a 120 GeV proton beam

Irene Dutta

AC-Coupled Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (AC-LGAD) are silicon sensors that are designed primarily for 4D tracking applications at future particle colliders. These sensors are capable of providing fine temporal and spatial resolution. At the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), this technology can be used to provide particle identification and tracking while keeping an economical channel count and low...

8. The (Z,A) Dependence of Muon-to-Electron Conversion

Dr Sophie Middleton (Caltech)

If muon-to-electron conversion in the field of a nucleus is found in the current generation
of experiments (i.e. Mu2e or COMET), the measurement of the atomic number dependence of the process will become
an important experimental goal. We present a new treatment of the (Z,A) dependence of muon to-
electron conversion. Our approach differs from earlier work in that it combines nuclear...

5. Time Slicing of Neutrino Fluxes in Oscillation Experiments at Fermilab

Sudeshna Ganguly (Fermilab)

Upcoming long baseline neutrino experiments aim to increase proton beam power and utilize large-scale detectors to overcome limited event statistics. The DUNE experiment at LBNF focuses on testing the three neutrino flavor paradigm and searching for CP violation through oscillation signatures. To achieve DUNE's scientific objectives, minimizing systematic errors, particularly those related to...

11. Trigger Development for Emerging Jet Analysis

Guillermo Fidalgo-Rodríguez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez)

Many Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) ideas envisage a connection between the Dark Matter (DM) and Baryonic matter densities (i.e. from Standard Model (SM)) where the DM has an asymmetry in the ratio of matter over antimatter similar to baryons. The dark sector is connected to the visible sector by a heavy mediator. It is highly relevant to explore the signature of this connection as part of...

7. Uniform beam simulation technique for beam scans and machine learning studies at Fermilab

Don Athula Wickremasinghe (Fermilab)

Fermilab's neutrino facilities, including NuMI and the upcoming LBNF, use proton beams to produce positively and negatively charged pions and kaons. Detailed simulations are necessary to study particle interactions and beam propagation. To efficiently analyze beam scan effects, we propose a technique to generate multiple simulation samples with high statistics. These samples can be used to...