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DTSTART:20181211T203000Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:MicroBooNE and the Path to Resolving the MiniBooNE Low Energy
Excess\, NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum\, Adam Lister\, Lan
caster University
DESCRIPTION:MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber which
has been running in
\n the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab sinc
e 2015. The primary goal of MicroBooNE is investigation of the excess
of electromagnetic events observed by the MiniBooNE collaboration. Due
to limitations of the Cherenkov-based particle identification of Mini
BooNE\,
\n this excess could be interpreted as either photon-like
or electron-like. A photon-like excess would indicate that there are p
rocesses which are not well understood which could act as a background
in neutrino oscillation measurements\, while an electron-like
\n
excess could indicate the presence of sterile neutrinos\, the existenc
e of which is one of the most hotly debated questions in the field. Th
is talk will outline MicroBooNE’s strategy for investigation of the
MiniBooNE low-energy excess\, along with the reconstruction
\n and
calibration work being undertaken to reduce systematic uncertainties
in the the analysis of neutrino data in liquid argon.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4986
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