Speaker
Katherine Woodruff
(New Mexico State University)
Description
The MicroBooNE detector will allow a measurement of neutral-current elastic interactions at an unprecedented low momentum transfer. The most problematic background to these low Q^2 interactions are from neutrons produced by interactions in the dirt surrounding MicroBooNE. A scintillator detector just upstream of MicroBooNE could provide us with a clean sample of dirt neutron events in MicroBooNE. From this sample, we can measure the energy and angular distributions of protons from dirt neutrons as a model of the background for the neutral-current elastic data. We present Monte Carlo predictions of the dirt neutron background in MicroBooNE as well as results from our current studies of the dirt event tagger capabilities.
Primary author
Katherine Woodruff
(New Mexico State University)