LArTPCs provide sensitivity to GeV signals, such as accelerator neutrinos and part of the supernova neutrino spectrum. TinyTPC is a LArTPC test stand for R&D of LAr doping to expand the reach of LArTPCs down to the 1-10 MeV range, which would substantially enhance the flagship analyses of experiments like DUNE, while enabling low energy analyses. We aim to dope LAr with Xe and photosensitive...
The Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab is designed to provide precise measurements of neutrino oscillations using 3 Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPC) built along Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB). The Short Baseline Near Detector (SBND), located at only 110 m from the BNB target, will precisely characterize the neutrino flux before oscillations take place,...
Large neutrino liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiments can broaden their physics reach by incorporating isolated MeV-scale features present in their data. We use data from MicroBooNE, an 85-tonnes LArTPC exposed to Fermilab neutrino beams from 2015 until 2021, to demonstrate new calorimetric and particle discrimination capabilities for isolated ~O(1 MeV) energy depositions...
LArTPCs are the technology of choice for many current and future neutrino experiments. Improving the performance of LArTPCs to signals with energies less than 10 MeV would substantially enhance the flagship analyses of experiments like DUNE, while potentially enabling the physics of solar neutrinos, dark matter searches, and neutrinoless double beta decay searches.
I outline the pathway and...
Novel machine learning-based anomaly detection Level 1 (L1) triggers are currently under development at CMS, namely AXOL1TL and CICADA. The former employs a variational autoencoder, while the latter utilizes a convolutional autoencoder. These triggers aim to balance rate reduction with model independence, enabling the selection of potentially significant events that might be overlooked by...
Making high-precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters requires an unprecedented understanding of neutrino-nucleus scattering. In this presentation, we present the first muon neutrino charged current double-differential cross sections in kinematic imbalance variables. These variables characterize the imbalance in the plane transverse to an incoming neutrino. We use events with a...
In this project we are studying the application of programmable network hardware to provide a custom monitoring capability for the Mu2e Trigger and Data Acquisition System (TDAQ) system. The goal of the Mu2e experiment is to search for a charged-lepton flavor violating processes where a negative muon converts into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus. This experiment is intended to...
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino experiment based at Fermilab, dedicated to measuring various neutrino oscillation parameters. Recently, the NOvA collaboration presented new results at NEUTRINO 2024. A significant enhancement in the modeling of charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) interactions has been achieved with the implementation of the Hartree-Fock (HF) mean-field model, incorporating...
The Mu2e experiment searches for charged lepton flavor violation through muon-to-electron conversion in the field of a nucleus. The signal is a monoenergetic electron with an energy of 104.97 MeV. Its momentum is reconstructed using information from drifting ionized particles. This project analyzes the drift of ionized particles with a deep neural network to help improve the momentum...
The Large Hadron Collider will undergo a luminosity upgrade targeting a peak instantaneous luminosity ranging from 5 up to 7.5$\times10^{34}$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. The ambitious goal of the High Luminosity LHC is to achieve a total of 3000-4000fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 14TeV.
To cope with such challenging environmental conditions, the outer tracker of...
This study explores the use of a Sparse 3D Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet) to infer missing regions of charged particle tracks. Hits corresponding to energy depositions are voxelized into a three-dimensional (3D) grid for each track. Inactive regions within the tracks are replaced with a dense, rectangular 3D grid of voxels, ensuring consistent step sizes in X, Y, and Z directions....
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum (PROSPECT) experiment is based in a segmented liquid scintillator antineutrino detector situated approximately 7 meters from the highly enriched High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Its main goal is to investigate short-baseline antineutrino oscillations.
The first phase of data collection, known as PROSPECT-I, was...
We present a search for low-mass narrow qq̅ resonances. This search uses data from LHC pp collisions at a center of mass of 13 TeV in Run 2, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb-1, currently using 10% of data. Utilizing full Run 2 data allows the use of a lower photon pT threshold trigger than a previous analysis performed with only 2016 data, allowing this analysis to be more...
Results of the test beam measurements that characterize the performance of CMS Readout Chip (CROC) sensors to be used in the High Luminosity era of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) are presented. The HL-LHC peak instantaneous luminosity of $7.5 \times 10^{34} \ \text{cm}^{-2} s^{-1}$ corresponds to an average of around 200 inelastic proton-proton collisions per beam-crossing every 25 ns. In...
TinyTPC is a small scale liquid-argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) featuring a pixelated readout system (LArPix) designed to improve the detection of charged particles. To enhance energy measurements at MeV scales, TinyTPC will study the impact of isobutylene, a photosensitive dopant that converts light to charge, and xenon, a wavelength shifter. This presentation will detail TinyTPC's...
SpinQuest is a cutting-edge, high-luminosity Drell-Yan experiment utilizing polarized hydrogen and deuterium targets to measure the Sivers asymmetry for the light sea quarks in the nucleon. Detecting a nonzero Sivers asymmetry would provide clear evidence for nonzero orbital angular momentum of sea quarks. The Sivers asymmetry presents itself as an azimuthal asymmetry in the production of...