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Description
MicroBooNE is an 85-tonne liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiment at
Fermilab, situated on-axis relative to the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) with a baseline of 470
m, and off-axis from the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam. The experiment collected
data from 2015 to 2021 and currently has the largest set of neutrino-argon interaction data in the
world. LArTPCs have excellent capabilities in calorimetric energy reconstruction and particle
identification, which allow MicroBooNE to conduct fundamental physics searches. One of
MicroBooNE’s driving physics goals is to explore the source of the low-energy excess of
electromagnetic events reported by MiniBooNE. Additionally, MicroBooNE’s physics program
includes measurements of neutrino-argon cross sections and a variety of other beyond the
standard model physics searches. Detector simulation and event reconstruction advancements
developed through these physics searches are useful for the broader short- and long-baseline
oscillation programs. This talk will give a brief overview of the MicroBooNE experiment,
highlighting the latest major results