Speaker
Dr
Leonidas Kalousis
(Virginia Tech)
Description
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are a novel detector concept, well-suited for neutrino physics experiments.
MicroBooNE will be the largest LArTPC ever to be built in the United States. The main motivation for designing and constructing MicroBooNE is the investigation of
the low-energy excess observed by MiniBooNE and further advancement of the LArTPC technology. Additionally, MicroBooNE will be able to perform
precise and detailed neutrino cross section measurements on argon and study the backgrounds relevant to proton decay searches with LArTPCs. The energy of those
particles that stop in the MicroBooNE TPC (fully contained events) can be determined from calorimetric information on the collection anode wires.
In this poster, alternative techniques to measure particle momenta via Multiple Coulomb Scattering will be presented.
These methods will be most important in the study of partially contained events.
Primary author
Dr
Leonidas Kalousis
(Virginia Tech)