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  1. arXiv:2201.01724  [pdf, other

    hep-ex hep-ph nucl-ex

    MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE Combined Fit to a 3+1 Sterile Neutrino Scenario

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, A. Diaz, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. Ford, G. T. Garvey, S. Gollapinni, A. Hourlier, E. -C. Huang, N. W. Kamp, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, K. Lin, W. C. Louis, C. Mariani, W. Marsh, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal-Martinez, C. D. Moore, R. H. Nelson, J. Nowak , et al. (14 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This letter presents the results from the MiniBooNE experiment within a full "3+1" scenario where one sterile neutrino is introduced to the three-active-neutrino picture. In addition to electron-neutrino appearance at short-baselines, this scenario also allows for disappearance of the muon-neutrino and electron-neutrino fluxes in the Booster Neutrino Beam, which is shared by the MicroBooNE experim… ▽ More

    Submitted 9 September, 2022; v1 submitted 5 January, 2022; originally announced January 2022.

    Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, 2 table

  2. arXiv:2110.15055  [pdf, ps, other

    hep-ex nucl-ex

    MiniBooNE Data Releases

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, A. Diaz, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. Ford, G. T. Garvey, S. Gollapinni, A. Hourlier, E. -C. Huang, N. W. Kamp, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, K. Lin, W. C. Louis, C. Mariani, W. Marsh, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal-Martinez, C. D. Moore, R. H. Nelson, J. Nowak , et al. (16 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The MiniBooNE experiment has provided data releases for most publications. Occasionally it is necessary to move data release pages. This document provides a single point of reference that will be updated by the collaboration to point to the present location of the MiniBooNE data releases.

    Submitted 25 October, 2021; originally announced October 2021.

    Comments: 2 pages, 0 figures

  3. arXiv:2006.16883  [pdf, other

    hep-ex hep-ph nucl-ex

    Updated MiniBooNE Neutrino Oscillation Results with Increased Data and New Background Studies

    Authors: MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, A. Diaz, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. Ford, G. T. Garvey, S. Gollapinni, A. Hourlier, E. C. Huang, N. W. Kamp, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, K. Lin, W. C. Louis, C. Mariani, W. Marsh, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal-Martinez, C. D. Moore, R. H. Nelson , et al. (17 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports a total excess of $638.0 \pm 132.8$ electron-like events ($4.8 σ$) from a data sample corresponding to $18.75 \times 10^{20}$ protons-on-target in neutrino mode, which is a 46\% increase in the data sample with respect to previously published results, and $11.27 \times 10^{20}$ protons-on-target in antineutrino mode. The additional statistics allow seve… ▽ More

    Submitted 8 March, 2021; v1 submitted 30 June, 2020; originally announced June 2020.

    Comments: 28 pages, 26 figures

    Report number: LA-UR-20-29235

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 103, 052002 (2021)

  4. Measurements of hadron production in $π^{+}$ + C and $π^{+}$ + Be interactions at 60 GeV/$c$

    Authors: NA61/SHINE Collaboration, :, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov, T. Antićić, V. Babkin, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, W. Bryliński, J. Brzychczyk, M. Buryakov, O. Busygina, A. Bzdak, H. Cherif, M. Ćirković, M. Csanad, J. Cybowska, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, M. Deliyergiyev , et al. (122 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Precise knowledge of hadron production rates in the generation of neutrino beams is necessary for accelerator-based neutrino experiments to achieve their physics goals. NA61/SHINE, a large-acceptance hadron spectrometer, has recorded hadron+nucleus interactions relevant to ongoing and future long-baseline neutrino experiments at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. This paper presents three anal… ▽ More

    Submitted 16 January, 2020; v1 submitted 13 September, 2019; originally announced September 2019.

    Report number: CERN-EP-2019-198

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 100, 112004 (2019)

  5. Measurements of production and inelastic cross sections for $\mbox{p}+\mbox{C}$, $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Be}$, and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Al}$ at 60 GeV/$c$ and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{C}$ and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Be}$ at 120 GeV/$c$

    Authors: NA61/SHINE Collaboration, :, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov, T. Antićić, V. Babkin, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, W. Bryliński, J. Brzychczyk, M. Buryakov, O. Busygina, A. Bzdak, H. Cherif, M. Ćirković, M. Csanad, J. Cybowska, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, M. Deliyergiyev , et al. (122 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This paper presents measurements of production cross sections and inelastic cross sections for the following reactions: 60 GeV/$c$ protons with C, Be, Al targets and 120 GeV/$c$ protons with C and Be targets. The analysis was performed using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. First measurements were obtained using protons at 120 GeV/$c$, while the results for protons at 60 GeV/$c$ were c… ▽ More

    Submitted 7 September, 2019; originally announced September 2019.

    Report number: CERN-EP-2019-193

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 100, 112001 (2019)

  6. Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, M. Auger, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, A. Bhat, K. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas, R. Carr, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna , et al. (149 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The MicroBooNE detector utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) with an 85 t active mass to study neutrino interactions along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. With a deployment location near ground level, the detector records many cosmic muon tracks in each beam-related detector trigger that can be misidentified as signals of interest. To reduce these cosmogenic backgr… ▽ More

    Submitted 15 March, 2019; v1 submitted 9 January, 2019; originally announced January 2019.

  7. arXiv:1808.07269  [pdf, other

    hep-ex cs.CV physics.data-an physics.ins-det

    A Deep Neural Network for Pixel-Level Electromagnetic Particle Identification in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, M. Auger, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, A. Bhat, K. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas, R. Carr, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna , et al. (148 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We have developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) that can make a pixel-level prediction of objects in image data recorded by a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) for the first time. We describe the network design, training techniques, and software tools developed to train this network. The goal of this work is to develop a complete deep neural network based data reconstruction cha… ▽ More

    Submitted 22 August, 2018; originally announced August 2018.

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 99, 092001 (2019)

  8. Measurements of $π^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$ and proton yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

    Authors: The NA61/SHINE Collaboration, :, N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov, T. Antićić, B. Baatar, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, W. Bryliński, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, A. Bzdak, H. Cherif, M. Ćirković, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, M. Deveaux, W. Dominik , et al. (137 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Measurements of the $π^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, and proton double differential yields emitted from the surface of the 90-cm-long carbon target (T2K replica) were performed for the incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS using data collected during 2010 run. The double differential $π^{\pm}$ yields were measured with increased precision compared to the previously publis… ▽ More

    Submitted 8 March, 2019; v1 submitted 14 August, 2018; originally announced August 2018.

    Comments: 43 pages, 55 figures

    Journal ref: Eur.Phys.J. C79 (2019) no.2, 100

  9. Dark Matter Search in Nucleon, Pion, and Electron Channels from a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE

    Authors: MiniBooNE-DM Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Backfish, A. Bashyal, B. Batell, B. C. Brown, R. Carr, A. Chatterjee, R. L. Cooper, P. deNiverville, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, J. A. Green, E. -C. Huang, W. Huelsnitz, I. L. de Icaza Astiz, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, W. Ketchum, T. Kobilarcik, Q. Liu , et al. (20 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: A search for sub-GeV dark matter produced from collisions of the Fermilab 8 GeV Booster protons with a steel beam dump was performed by the MiniBooNE-DM Collaboration using data from $1.86 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in a dedicated run. The MiniBooNE detector, consisting of 818 tons of mineral oil and located 490 meters downstream of the beam dump, is sensitive to a variety of dark matter in… ▽ More

    Submitted 29 March, 2019; v1 submitted 16 July, 2018; originally announced July 2018.

    Comments: 19 pages, 25 figures, Data release: http://www-boone.fnal.gov/for_physicists/data_release/dark_matter_prd/ v2 Updated to published version

    Report number: LA-UR-18-26421, FERMILAB-PUB-18-334-ND

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 98, 112004 (2018)

  10. Measurements of Non-Singlet Moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions and Comparison to Predictions from Lattice QCD for $Q^2 = 4$ $\rm GeV^2$

    Authors: I. Albayrak, V. Mamyan, M. E. Christy, A. Ahmidouch, J. Arrington, A. Asaturyan, A. Bodek, P. Bosted, R. Bradford, E. Brash, A. Bruell, C Butuceanu, S. J. Coleman, M. Commisso, S. H. Connell, M. M. Dalton, S. Danagoulian, A. Daniel, D. B. Day, S. Dhamija, J. Dunne, D. Dutta, R. Ent, D. Gaskell, A. Gasparian , et al. (53 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present extractions of the nucleon non-singlet moments utilizing new precision data on the deuteron $F_2$ structure function at large Bjorken-$x$ determined via the Rosenbluth separation technique at Jefferson Lab Experimental Hall C. These new data are combined with a complementary set of data on the proton previously measured in Hall C at similar kinematics and world data sets on the proton a… ▽ More

    Submitted 10 April, 2019; v1 submitted 16 July, 2018; originally announced July 2018.

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 022501 (2019)

  11. Significant Excess of ElectronLike Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

    Authors: MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, G. Cheng, J. M. Conrad, R. L. Cooper, R. Dharmapalan, A. Diaz, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, E. -C. Huang, W. Huelsnitz, C. Ignarra, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, W. C. Louis, C. Mariani, W. Marsh , et al. (23 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of $ν_e$ appearance data from $12.84 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in neutrino mode, an increase of approximately a factor of two over previously reported results. A $ν_e$ charged-current quasielastic event excess of $381.2 \pm 85.2$ events ($4.5 σ$) is observed in the energy range $200<E_ν^{QE}<1250$~MeV. Combining these da… ▽ More

    Submitted 26 October, 2018; v1 submitted 30 May, 2018; originally announced May 2018.

    Comments: Improved some of the figures and improved the correlation between neutrino and antineutrino data

    Report number: LA-UR-18-24586

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221801 (2018)

  12. arXiv:1805.06887  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    Comparison of νμ-Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions

    Authors: C. Adams, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, A. Bhat, K. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, G. Cerati, H. Chen, Y. Chen, E. Church, D. Cianci , et al. (140 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab. We evaluate three neutrino interaction models based on the widely used GENIE event generator using these observables. The measurement uses a data set consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon candidate… ▽ More

    Submitted 26 March, 2019; v1 submitted 17 May, 2018; originally announced May 2018.

    Comments: 31 pages, 39 figures, 10 tables

    Journal ref: Eur. Phys. J. C (2019) 79:248

  13. Measurements of total production cross sections for $π^{+}$+C, $π^{+}$+Al, $K^{+}$+C, and $K^{+}$+Al at 60 GeV/c and $π^{+}$+C and $π^{+}$+Al at 31 GeV/c

    Authors: NA61/SHINE Collaboration, :, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. Andronov, T. Antićić, B. Baatar, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, W. Bryliński, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, A. Bzdak, H. Cherif, M. Ćirković, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, M. Deveaux, W. Dominik, P. Dorosz , et al. (118 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This paper presents several measurements of total production cross sections and total inelastic cross sections for the following reactions: $π^{+}$+C, $π^{+}$+Al, $K^{+}$+C, $K^{+}$+Al at 60 GeV/c, $π^{+}$+C and $π^{+}$+Al at 31 GeV/c . The measurements were made using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. Comparisons with previous measurements are given and good agreement is seen. These in… ▽ More

    Submitted 17 September, 2019; v1 submitted 11 May, 2018; originally announced May 2018.

    Comments: Updated to accepted text

    Report number: CERN Preprint CERN-EP-2018-099

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 98, 052001 (2018)

  14. arXiv:1804.02583  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex nucl-ex

    Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs II. Data/Simulation Comparison and Performance in MicroBooNE

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, A. Bhat, K. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, R. Carr, I. Caro Terrazas, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, G. Cerati, H. Chen , et al. (146 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) provides a large amount of detailed information in the form of fine-grained drifted ionization charge from particle traces. To fully utilize this information, the deposited charge must be accurately extracted from the raw digitized waveforms via a robust signal processing chain. Enabled by the ultra-low noise levels associated with cry… ▽ More

    Submitted 11 June, 2018; v1 submitted 7 April, 2018; originally announced April 2018.

    Comments: 54 pages, 36 figures; the first part of this work can be found at arXiv:1802.08709

    Journal ref: JINST 13 P07007 (2018)

  15. arXiv:1802.08709  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex nucl-ex

    Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs I. Algorithm Description and Quantitative Evaluation with MicroBooNE Simulation

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, L. Bagby, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, A. Bhat, K. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, G. Cerati, H. Chen, Y. Chen , et al. (144 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We describe the concept and procedure of drifted-charge extraction developed in the MicroBooNE experiment, a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). This technique converts the raw digitized TPC waveform to the number of ionization electrons passing through a wire plane at a given time. A robust recovery of the number of ionization electrons from both induction and collection a… ▽ More

    Submitted 9 April, 2018; v1 submitted 23 February, 2018; originally announced February 2018.

    Comments: 60 pages, 36 figures. The second part of this work can be found at arXiv:1804.02583

    Journal ref: JINST 13 P07006 (2018)

  16. arXiv:1801.03848  [pdf, other

    hep-ex hep-ph nucl-ex

    First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, G. Cheng, E. D. Church, J. M. Conrad, R. L. Cooper, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. S. Fitzpatrick, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, W. Huelsnitz, C. Ignarra, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, J. R. Jordan, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, W. C. Louis, K. Mahn , et al. (24 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We report the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. MiniBooNE has isolated 236 MeV muon neutrino events originating from charged kaon decay at rest ($K^+ \rightarrow μ^+ ν_μ$) at the NuMI beamline absorber. These signal $ν_μ$-carbon events are distinguished from primarily pion decay in flight $ν_μ$ and $\overlineν_μ$ backgrounds produced at the target stati… ▽ More

    Submitted 7 May, 2018; v1 submitted 11 January, 2018; originally announced January 2018.

    Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141802 (2018)

  17. arXiv:1708.03135  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.data-an

    The Pandora multi-algorithm approach to automated pattern recognition of cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, L. Bagby, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, B. Carls, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, H. Chen, E. Church, D. Cianci , et al. (123 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The development and operation of Liquid-Argon Time-Projection Chambers for neutrino physics has created a need for new approaches to pattern recognition in order to fully exploit the imaging capabilities offered by this technology. Whereas the human brain can excel at identifying features in the recorded events, it is a significant challenge to develop an automated, algorithmic solution. The Pando… ▽ More

    Submitted 10 August, 2017; originally announced August 2017.

    Comments: Preprint to be submitted to The European Physical Journal C

  18. Measurement of cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiencies in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using a small external cosmic-ray counter

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, L. Bagby, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, B. Carls, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, H. Chen, E. Church, D. Cianci , et al. (126 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber at Fermilab designed to study short-baseline neutrino oscillations and neutrino-argon interaction cross-section. Due to its location near the surface, a good understanding of cosmic muons as a source of backgrounds is of fundamental importance for the experiment. We present a method of using an external 0.5 m (L) x 0.5 m (W) muon co… ▽ More

    Submitted 31 July, 2017; originally announced July 2017.

    Comments: 19 pages, 12 figures

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-17-213-ND

  19. Measurement of Meson Resonance Production in $π^{-} + $C Interactions at SPS energies

    Authors: A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. V. Andronov, T. Antićić, B. Baatar, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, H. Cherif, M. Ćirković, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, H. Dembinski, M. Deveaux, W. Dominik, P. Dorosz, J. Dumarchez, R. Engel , et al. (120 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present measurements of $ρ^0$, $ω$ and K$^{*0}$ spectra in $π^{-} + $C production interactions at 158 GeV/c and $ρ^0$ spectra at 350 GeV/c using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. Spectra are presented as a function of the Feynman's variable $x_\text{F}$ in the range $0 < x_\text{F} < 1$ and $0 < x_\text{F} < 0.5$ for 158 GeV/c and 350 GeV/c respectively. Furthermore, we show comparis… ▽ More

    Submitted 23 May, 2017; originally announced May 2017.

    Comments: submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C

    Report number: CERN-EP-2017-105

    Journal ref: Eur. Phys. J. C 77, 626 (2017)

  20. arXiv:1705.07341  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Noise Characterization and Filtering in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, L. Bagby, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, B. Bullard, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, B. Carls, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, H. Chen, E. Church , et al. (130 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The low-noise operation of readout electronics in a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is critical to properly extract the distribution of ionization charge deposited on the wire planes of the TPC, especially for the induction planes. This paper describes the characteristics and mitigation of the observed noise in the MicroBooNE detector. The MicroBooNE's single-phase LArTPC comprises t… ▽ More

    Submitted 20 May, 2017; originally announced May 2017.

    Comments: 36 pages, 20 figures

    Journal ref: JINST 12 P08003 (2017)

  21. Measurements of $π^\pm$, K$^\pm$, p and $\bar{\textrm{p}}$ spectra in proton-proton interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

    Authors: NA61/SHINE Collaboration, :, A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov, T. Antićić, B. Baatar, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, H. Cherif, M. Ćirković, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, H. Dembinski, M. Deveaux, W. Dominik, P. Dorosz , et al. (120 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Measurements of inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of $π^\pm$, K$^\pm$, p and $\bar{\textrm{p}}$ produced in inelastic p+p interactions at incident projectile momenta of 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c ($\sqrt{s} = $ 6.3, 7.7, 8.8, 12.3 and 17.3 GeV, respectively) were performed at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron using the large acceptance NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer. Spectra are presente… ▽ More

    Submitted 27 September, 2017; v1 submitted 6 May, 2017; originally announced May 2017.

    Report number: CERN-EP-2017-066

    Journal ref: Eur. Phys. J. C 77, 671 (2017)

  22. arXiv:1704.02927  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Michel Electron Reconstruction Using Cosmic-Ray Data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams, R. An, J. Anthony, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, L. Bagby, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Bugel, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, B. Carls, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, H. Chen, E. Church , et al. (121 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) has been taking data at Fermilab since 2015 collecting, in addition to neutrino beam, cosmic-ray muons. Results are presented on the reconstruction of Michel electrons produced by the decay at rest of cosmic-ray muons. Michel electrons are abundantly produced in the TPC, and given their well known energy spectrum can be used to study Mic… ▽ More

    Submitted 30 August, 2017; v1 submitted 10 April, 2017; originally announced April 2017.

    Journal ref: JINST 12 P09014 (2017)

  23. arXiv:1703.06187  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Determination of muon momentum in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using an improved model of multiple Coulomb scattering

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri, C. Adams, R. An, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, L. Bagby, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Bugel, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, B. Carls, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, H. Chen, E. Church , et al. (123 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We discuss a technique for measuring a charged particle's momentum by means of multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). This method does not require the full particle ionization track to be contained inside of the detector volume as other track momentum reconstruction methods do (range-based momentum reconstruction and calorimetric momentum… ▽ More

    Submitted 5 October, 2017; v1 submitted 17 March, 2017; originally announced March 2017.

  24. Dark Matter Search in a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, M. Backfish, A. Bashyal, B. Batell, B. C. Brown, R. Carr, A. Chatterjee, R. L. Cooper, P. deNiverville, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, J. A. Green, W. Huelsnitz, I. L. de Icaza Astiz, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, W. Ketchum, T. Kobilarcik, Q. Liu, W. C. Louis, W. Marsh , et al. (18 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The MiniBooNE-DM collaboration searched for vector-boson mediated production of dark matter using the Fermilab 8 GeV Booster proton beam in a dedicated run with $1.86 \times 10^{20}$ protons delivered to a steel beam dump. The MiniBooNE detector, 490~m downstream, is sensitive to dark matter via elastic scattering with nucleons in the detector mineral oil. Analysis methods developed for previous M… ▽ More

    Submitted 23 August, 2017; v1 submitted 8 February, 2017; originally announced February 2017.

    Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures, Version consistent with final PRL

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221803 (2017)

  25. arXiv:1612.05824  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Design and Construction of the MicroBooNE Detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE Collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams, R. An, A. Aparicio, S. Aponte, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, N. Ayoub, L. Bagby, B. Baller, R. Barger, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, K. Biery, M. Bishai, A. Blake, V. Bocean, D. Boehnlein, V. D. Bogert, T. Bolton, L. Bugel, C. Callahan, L. Camilleri , et al. (215 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This paper describes the design and construction of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber and associated systems. MicroBooNE is the first phase of the Short Baseline Neutrino program, located at Fermilab, and will utilize the capabilities of liquid argon detectors to examine a rich assortment of physics topics. In this document details of design specifications, assembly procedures, a… ▽ More

    Submitted 17 January, 2017; v1 submitted 17 December, 2016; originally announced December 2016.

  26. arXiv:1611.05531  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to Neutrino Events in a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams, R. An, J. Asaadi, M. Auger, L. Bagby, B. Baller, G. Barr, M. Bass, F. Bay, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, L. Bugel, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, B. Carls, R. Castillo Fernandez, F. Cavanna, H. Chen, E. Church, D. Cianci, G. H. Collin, J. M. Conrad , et al. (114 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present several studies of convolutional neural networks applied to data coming from the MicroBooNE detector, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). The algorithms studied include the classification of single particle images, the localization of single particle and neutrino interactions in an image, and the detection of a simulated neutrino event overlaid with cosmic ray backgrounds t… ▽ More

    Submitted 16 November, 2016; originally announced November 2016.

  27. arXiv:1610.08186  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Status Report (22th J-PARC PAC): Searching for a Sterile Neutrino at J-PARC MLF (E56, JSNS2)

    Authors: M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, Y. Kasugai, S. Meigo, K. Sakai, S. Sakamoto, K. Suzuya, T. Maruyama, S. Monjushiro, K. Nishikawa, M. Taira, S. Iwata, T. Kawasaki, M. Niiyama, S. Ajimura, T. Hiraiwa, T. Nakano, M. Nomachi, T. Shima, Y. Sugaya, T. J. C. Bezerra, E. Chauveau, H. Furuta, Y. Hino, F. Suekane , et al. (12 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The JSNS$^2$ (J-PARC E56) experiment aims to search for a sterile neutrino at the J-PARC Materials and Life Sciences Experimental Facility (MLF). After the submission of a proposal to the J-PARC PAC, Stage-1 approval was granted to the JSNS$^2$ experiment on April 2015.This approval followed a series of background measurements which were performed in 2014. Recently, funding (the grant-in-aid for… ▽ More

    Submitted 26 October, 2016; originally announced October 2016.

  28. Two-particle correlations in azimuthal angle and pseudorapidity in inelastic p+p interactions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

    Authors: NA61/SHINE Collaboration, :, A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov, T. Anticic, N. Antoniou, B. Baatar, F. Bay, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, P. Christakoglou, M. Cirkovic, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, H. Dembinski, M. Deveaux, F. Diakonos, S. Di Luise , et al. (131 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Results on two-particle $ΔηΔφ$ correlations in inelastic p+p interactions at 20, 31, 40, 80, and 158~GeV/c are presented. The measurements were performed using the large acceptance NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The data show structures which can be attributed mainly to effects of resonance decays, momentum conservation, and quantum statistics. The results are… ▽ More

    Submitted 7 February, 2017; v1 submitted 3 October, 2016; originally announced October 2016.

    Comments: v2: Minor text changes, Fig. 10 updated, version published in Eur. Phys. J. C

    Report number: CERN-EP-2016-234

    Journal ref: Eur. Phys. J. C77, 59 (2017)

  29. arXiv:1603.06774  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    Measurements of $π^{\pm}$ differential yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

    Authors: NA61/SHINE Collaboration, :, N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, M. Ajaz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov, T. Antićić, N. Antoniou, B. Baatar, F. Bay, A. Blondel, J. Blümer, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, P. Christakoglou, M. Ćirković, T. Czopowicz, N. Davis, S. Debieux, H. Dembinski , et al. (135 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Measurements of particle emission from a replica of the T2K 90 cm-long carbon target were performed in the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS, using data collected during a high-statistics run in 2009. An efficient use of the long-target measurements for neutrino flux predictions in T2K requires dedicated reconstruction and analysis techniques. Fully-corrected differential yields of $π^\pm$-mesons… ▽ More

    Submitted 29 November, 2016; v1 submitted 22 March, 2016; originally announced March 2016.

    Report number: CERN-EP-2016-057

    Journal ref: Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76: 617

  30. arXiv:1601.01046  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Status Report for the 21th J-PARC PAC : Searching for a Sterile Neutrino at J-PARC MLF (J-PARC E56, JSNS2)

    Authors: M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, Y. Kasugai, S. Meigo, K. Sakai, S. Sakamoto, K. Suzuya, E. Iwai, T. Maruyama, S. Monjushiro, K. Nishikawa, M. Taira, M. Niiyama, S. Ajimura, T. Hiraiwa, T. Nakano, M. Nomachi, T. Shima, T. J. C. Bezerra, E. Chauveau, H. Furuta, F. Suekane, I. Stancu, M. Yeh, W. Toki , et al. (7 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The JSNS2 (J-PARC E56) experiment aims to search for sterile neutrinos at the J-PARC Materials and Life Sciences Experimental Facility (MLF).After the submission of a proposal to the J-PARC PAC, stage-1 approval was granted to the JSNS2 experiment. The approval followed a series of background measurements which were performed in 2014. Subsequent for stage-1 approval, the JSNS2 collaboration has ma… ▽ More

    Submitted 5 January, 2016; originally announced January 2016.

  31. Production of $Λ$ hyperons in inelastic p+p interactions at 158 GeV/$c$

    Authors: A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov, T. Antićić, N. Antoniou, B. Baatar, F. Bay, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, P. Christakoglou, M. Ćirković, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, H. Dembinski, M. Deveaux, F. Diakonos, S. Di Luise, W. Dominik, J. Dumarchez , et al. (115 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Inclusive production of $Λ$-hyperons was measured with the large acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS in inelastic p+p interactions at beam momentum of 158~\GeVc. Spectra of transverse momentum and transverse mass as well as distributions of rapidity and x$_{_F}$ are presented. The mean multiplicity was estimated to be $0.120\,\pm0.006\;(stat.)\,\pm 0.010\;(sys.)$. The results are co… ▽ More

    Submitted 25 April, 2016; v1 submitted 13 October, 2015; originally announced October 2015.

    Comments: 19 pages, 20 figures, 6 tables

    Report number: CERN-PH-EP-2015-274

    Journal ref: Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76: 198

  32. Measurements of $π^\pm$, $K^\pm$, $K^0_S$, $Λ$ and proton production in proton-carbon interactions at 31 GeV/$c$ with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

    Authors: N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, Y. Ali, E. Andronov, T. Antićić, N. Antoniou, B. Baatar, F. Bay, A. Blondel, J. Blümer, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, P. Christakoglou, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, S. Debieux, H. Dembinski, M. Deveaux, F. Diakonos, S. Di Luise , et al. (127 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Measurements of hadron production in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c are performed using the NA61/ SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The analysis is based on the full set of data collected in 2009 using a graphite target with a thickness of 4% of a nuclear interaction length. Inelastic and production cross sections as well as spectra of $π^\pm$, $K^\pm$, p, $K^0_S$ and $Λ$ are measured with high pr… ▽ More

    Submitted 24 February, 2016; v1 submitted 9 October, 2015; originally announced October 2015.

    Comments: v1 corresponds to the preprint CERN-PH-EP-2015-278; v2 matches the final published version

    Report number: CERN-PH-EP-2015-278

    Journal ref: The European Physical Journal C, 76(2), 1-49 (2016)

  33. arXiv:1507.07076  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Status Report for the 20th J-PARC PAC : A Search for Sterile Neutrino at J-PARC MLF (J-PARC E56, JSNS2)

    Authors: M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, Y. Kasugai, S. Meigo, K. Sakai, S. Sakamoto, K. Suzuya, E. Iwai, T. Maruyama, S. Monjushiro, K. Nishikawa, M. Taira, M. Niiyama, S. Ajimura, T. Hiraiwa, T. Nakano, M. Nomachi, T. Shima, T. J. C. Bezerra, E. Chauveau, H. Furuta, F. Suekane, I. Stancu, M. Yeh, H. Ray , et al. (6 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: On April 2015, the J-PARC E56 (JSNS2: J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search using neutrinos from J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) experiment officially obtained stage-1 approval from J-PARC. We have since started to perform liquid scintillator R&D for improving energy resolution and fast neutron rejection. Also, we are studying Avalanche Photo-Diodes (SiPM) inside the liquid scintillator. In addition to… ▽ More

    Submitted 25 July, 2015; originally announced July 2015.

    Comments: 20th J-PARC PAC status report

  34. arXiv:1503.01520  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    A Proposal for a Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam

    Authors: R. Acciarri, C. Adams, R. An, C. Andreopoulos, A. M. Ankowski, M. Antonello, J. Asaadi, W. Badgett, L. Bagby, B. Baibussinov, B. Baller, G. Barr, N. Barros, M. Bass, V. Bellini, P. Benetti, S. Bertolucci, K. Biery, H. Bilokon, M. Bishai, A. Bitadze, A. Blake, F. Boffelli, T. Bolton, M. Bonesini , et al. (199 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: A Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) physics program of three LAr-TPC detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab is presented. This new SBN Program will deliver a rich and compelling physics opportunity, including the ability to resolve a class of experimental anomalies in neutrino physics and to perform the most sensitive search to date for sterile neutrinos at the eV mass-sca… ▽ More

    Submitted 4 March, 2015; originally announced March 2015.

    Comments: 209 pages, 129 figures

  35. arXiv:1502.02255  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Status Report (BKG measurement): A Search for Sterile Neutrino at J-PARC MLF

    Authors: M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, Y. Kasugai, S. Meigo, K. Sakai, S. Sakamoto, K. Suzuya, E. Iwai, T. Maruyama, H. Monjushiro, K. Nishikawa, R. Ohta, M. Taira, M. Niiyama, S. Ajimura, T. Hiraiwa, T. Nakano, M. Nomachi, T. Shima, T. J. C. Bezerra, E. Chauveau, T. Enomoto, H. Furuta, H. Sakai, F. Suekane , et al. (9 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: At the 17th J-PARC PAC, which was held on September 2013, we proposed the sterile neutrino search at J-PARC MLF. After reviewing the proposal, PAC recommended to have a background measurement at the detector's candidate site location in their report to investigate whether the background rates can be manageable for the real experiment or not. Therefore, we have performed the background measurements… ▽ More

    Submitted 8 February, 2015; originally announced February 2015.

  36. arXiv:1407.3304  [pdf, other

    hep-ex hep-ph nucl-ex

    Using L/E Oscillation Probability Distributions

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, G. Cheng, E. D. Church, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, W. Huelsnitz, C. Ignarra, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, W. C. Louis, C. Mariani, W. Marsh, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal , et al. (19 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This paper explores the use of $L/E$ oscillation probability distributions to compare experimental measurements and to evaluate oscillation models. In this case, $L$ is the distance of neutrino travel and $E$ is a measure of the interacting neutrino's energy. While comparisons using allowed and excluded regions for oscillation model parameters are likely the only rigorous method for these comparis… ▽ More

    Submitted 11 July, 2014; originally announced July 2014.

  37. arXiv:1406.4080  [pdf, other

    nucl-ex nucl-th

    Measurement of the Spectral Function of $^{40}$Ar through the $(e,e^\prime p)$ reaction

    Authors: A. Ankowski, R. Beminiwattha, O. Benhar, D. G. Crabb, D. B. Day, F. Garibaldi, G. Garvey, D. Gaskell, C. Giusti, O. Hansen, D. W. Higinbotham, R. Holmes, C. M. Jen, X. Jiang, D. Keller, C. E. Keppel, R. Lindgren, J. M. Link, N. Liyanage, C. Mariani, A. Meucci, G. B. Mills, L. Myers, M. L. Pitt, O. A. Rondon , et al. (6 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The interpretation of the signals detected by high precision experiments aimed at measuring neutrino oscillations requires an accurate description of the neutrino-nucleus cross sections. One of the key element of the analysis is the treatment of nuclear effects, which is one of the main sources of systematics for accelerator based experiments such as the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE). A… ▽ More

    Submitted 16 June, 2014; originally announced June 2014.

    Comments: 28 pages, 4 figures, Proposal PR12-14-012 submitted to the JLAB PAC 42, July 2014

  38. arXiv:1312.7252  [pdf

    physics.ins-det hep-ph

    ICARUS at FNAL

    Authors: M. Antonello, B. Baibussinov, V. Bellini, H. Bilokon, F. Boffelli, M. Bonesini, E. Calligarich, S. Centro, K. Cieslik, D. B. Cline, A. G. Cocco, A. Curioni, A. Dermenev, R. Dolfini, A. Falcone, C. Farnese, A. Fava, A. Ferrari, D. Gibin, S. Gninenko, F. Guber, A. Guglielmi, M. Haranczyk, J. Holeczek, A. Ivashkin , et al. (41 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The INFN and the ICARUS collaboration originally developed the technology of the LAr-TPC. Located the underground LNGS Hall-B, the ICARUS T600 detector has been performed over three years with remarkable detection efficiency featuring a smooth operation, high live time, and high reliability. About 3000 CNGS neutrino events have been collected and are being actively analyzed. ICARUS will now be mov… ▽ More

    Submitted 10 January, 2014; v1 submitted 27 December, 2013; originally announced December 2013.

    Comments: Experiment Proposal; 54 pages, 33 figures

  39. arXiv:1310.1437  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Proposal: A Search for Sterile Neutrino at J-PARC Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility

    Authors: M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, Y. Kasugai, S. Meigo, K. Sakai, S. Sakamoto, K. Suzuya, E. Iwai, T. Maruyama, K. Nishikawa, R. Ohta, M. Niiyama, S. Ajimura, T. Hiraiwa, T. Nakano, M. Nomachi, T. Shima, T. J. C. Bezerra, E. Chauveau, T. Enomoto, H. Furuta, H. Sakai, F. Suekane, M. Yeh, G. T. Garvey , et al. (3 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We propose a definite search for sterile neutrinos at the J-PARC Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF). With the 3 GeV Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) and spallation neutron target, an intense neutrino beam from muon decay at rest (DAR) is available. Neutrinos come from μ+ decay, and the oscillation to be searched for is (anti νμ-> anti νe) which is detected by the inverse βdecay… ▽ More

    Submitted 4 October, 2013; originally announced October 2013.

  40. arXiv:1310.0076  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    A new investigation of electron neutrino appearance oscillations with improved sensitivity in the MiniBooNE+ experiment

    Authors: R. Dharmapalan, S. Habib, C. Jiang, I. Stancu, Z. Djurcic, R. A. Johnson, A. Wickremasinghe, G. Karagiorgi, M. H. Shaevitz, B. C. Brown, F. G. Garcia, R. Ford, W. Marsh, C. D. Moore, D. Perevalov, C. C. Polly, J. Grange, J. Mousseau, B. Osmanov, H. Ray, R. Cooper, R. Tayloe, R. Thornton, G. T. Garvey, W. Huelsnitz , et al. (12 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We propose the addition of scintillator to the existing MiniBooNE detector to allow a test of the neutral-current/charged-current (NC/CC) nature of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess. Scintillator will enable the reconstruction of 2.2 MeV $γ$s from neutron-capture on protons following neutrino interactions. Low-energy CC interactions where the oscillation excess is observed should have associated neu… ▽ More

    Submitted 2 October, 2013; v1 submitted 30 September, 2013; originally announced October 2013.

    Comments: Submitted as whitepaper for Snowmass'13 proceedings - 8 pages, 3 figures; version 2: Minor change to title and author list

  41. arXiv:1309.7987  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    LAr1-ND: Testing Neutrino Anomalies with Multiple LArTPC Detectors at Fermilab

    Authors: C. Adams, C. Andreopoulos, J. Asaadi, B. Baller, M. Bishai, L. Camilleri, F. Cavanna, H. Chen, E. Church, D. Cianci, G. Collin, J. Conrad, A. Ereditato, B. Fleming, W. M. Foreman, G. Garvey, R. Guenette, C. Ignarra, B. Jones, G. Karagiorgi, W. Ketchum, I. Kreslo, D. Lissauer, W. C. Louis, K. Mavrokoridis , et al. (25 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This white paper describes LAr1-ND and the compelling physics it brings first in Phase 1 and next towards the full LAr1 program. In addition, LAr1-ND serves as a key step in the development toward large-scale LArTPC detectors. Its development goals will encompass testing existing and possibly innovative designs for LBNE while at the same time providing a training ground for teams working towards L… ▽ More

    Submitted 5 November, 2013; v1 submitted 30 September, 2013; originally announced September 2013.

  42. Measurement of the Antineutrino Neutral-Current Elastic Differential Cross Section

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, G. Cheng, E. D. Church, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, W. Huelsnitz, C. Ignarra, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, W. C. Louis, C. Mariani, W. Marsh, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal , et al. (20 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We report the measurement of the flux-averaged antineutrino neutral current elastic scattering cross section ($dσ_{\bar νN \rightarrow \bar νN}/dQ^{2}$) on CH$_{2}$ by the MiniBooNE experiment using the largest sample of antineutrino neutral current elastic candidate events ever collected. The ratio of the antineutrino to neutrino neutral current elastic scattering cross sections and a ratio of an… ▽ More

    Submitted 27 September, 2013; originally announced September 2013.

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-13-426-E-PPD

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 012004 (2015)

  43. arXiv:1307.7097  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex hep-ph nucl-ex

    The OscSNS White Paper

    Authors: OscSNS Collaboration, R. Allen, F. T. Avignone, J. Boissevain, Y. Efremenko, M. Elnimr, T. Gabriel, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, T. Handler, W. Huelsnitz, R. Imlay, Y. Kamyshkov, J. M. Link, W. C. Louis, G. B. Mills, S. R. Mishra, B. Osmanov, Z. Pavlovic, H. Ray, B. P. Roe, C. Rosenfeld, I. Stancu, R. Svoboda, R. Tayloe , et al. (4 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: There exists a need to address and resolve the growing evidence for short-baseline neutrino oscillations and the possible existence of sterile neutrinos. Such non-standard particles require a mass of $\sim 1$ eV/c$^2$, far above the mass scale associated with active neutrinos, and were first invoked to explain the LSND $\bar ν_μ\rightarrow \bar ν_e$ appearance signal. More recently, the MiniBooNE… ▽ More

    Submitted 7 October, 2013; v1 submitted 26 July, 2013; originally announced July 2013.

    Comments: This white paper is submitted as part of the SNOWMASS planning process

  44. Network Inference Using Steady State Data and Goldbeter-Koshland Kinetics

    Authors: Chris J Oates, Bryan T Hennessy, Yiling Lu, Gordon B Mills, Sach Mukherjee

    Abstract: Network inference approaches are widely used to shed light on regulatory interplay between molecular players such as genes and proteins. Biochemical processes underlying networks of interest (e.g. gene regulatory or protein signalling networks) are generally nonlinear. In many settings, knowledge is available concerning relevant chemical kinetics. However, existing network inference methods for co… ▽ More

    Submitted 8 June, 2013; originally announced June 2013.

    Comments: Preprint

    Journal ref: Bioinformatics (2012) 28(18):2342-2348

  45. arXiv:1303.2588  [pdf, other

    hep-ex hep-ph nucl-ex nucl-th

    Improved Search for $\bar ν_μ\rightarrow \bar ν_e$ Oscillations in the MiniBooNE Experiment

    Authors: The MiniBooNE Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, G. Cheng, E. D. Church, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, W. Huelsnitz, C. Ignarra, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, W. C. Louis, C. Mariani, W. Marsh, G. B. Mills , et al. (20 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of $\bar ν_e$ appearance data from $11.27 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in antineutrino mode, an increase of approximately a factor of two over the previously reported results. An event excess of $78.4 \pm 28.5$ events ($2.8 σ$) is observed in the energy range $200<E_ν^{QE}<1250$ MeV. If interpreted in a two-neutrino oscilla… ▽ More

    Submitted 12 March, 2013; v1 submitted 11 March, 2013; originally announced March 2013.

    Comments: Submitted to PRL. Further information provided in arXiv:1207.4809

    Report number: LA-UR-13-21523

  46. First Measurement of the Muon Anti-Neutrino Double-Differential Charged Current Quasi-Elastic Cross Section

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, G. Cheng, E. D. Church, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, W. Huelsnitz, C. Ignarra, R. Imlay, R. A. Johnson, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, W. C. Louis, C. Mariani, W. Marsh, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal , et al. (20 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The largest sample ever recorded of $\numub$ charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE, $\numub + p \to \mup + n$) candidate events is used to produce the minimally model-dependent, flux-integrated double-differential cross section $\frac{d^{2}σ}{dT_μd\uz}$ for $\numub$ incident on mineral oil. This measurement exploits the unprecedented statistics of the MiniBooNE anti-neutrino mode sample and provides… ▽ More

    Submitted 4 August, 2013; v1 submitted 29 January, 2013; originally announced January 2013.

    Comments: 28 pages, 13 figures. Data release at http://www-boone.fnal.gov/for_physicists/data_release/ccqe_nubar/

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-13-017-E

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 88, 032001 (2013)

  47. arXiv:1211.5199  [pdf, other

    hep-ex hep-ph nucl-ex

    Opportunities for Neutrino Physics at the Spallation Neutron Source: A White Paper

    Authors: A. Bolozdynya, F. Cavanna, Y. Efremenko, G. T. Garvey, V. Gudkov, A. Hatzikoutelis, W. R. Hix, W. C. Louis, J. M. Link, D. M. Markoff, G. B. Mills, K. Patton, H. Ray, K. Scholberg, R. G. Van de Water, C. Virtue, D. H. White, S. Yen, J. Yoo

    Abstract: The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, provides an intense flux of neutrinos in the few tens-of-MeV range, with a sharply-pulsed timing structure that is beneficial for background rejection. In this document, the product of a workshop at the SNS in May 2012, we describe this free, high-quality stopped-pion neutrino source and outline various physics that c… ▽ More

    Submitted 21 November, 2012; originally announced November 2012.

    Comments: White paper associated with the Workshop on Neutrinos at the Spallation Neutron Source, May 2012

  48. arXiv:1211.2258  [pdf, ps, other

    hep-ex astro-ph.CO hep-ph

    Low Mass WIMP Searches with a Neutrino Experiment: A Proposal for Further MiniBooNE Running

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. Batell, R. Cooper, P. deNiverville, R. Dharmapalan, Z. Djurcic, R. Ford, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, S. Habib, W. Huelsnitz, C. Jiang, R. A. Johnson, W. Ketchum, T. Kobilarcik, W. C. Louis, W. Marsh, D. McKeen, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal, C. D. Moore, P. Nienaber, Z. Pavlovic, D. Perevalov , et al. (8 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: A proposal submitted to the FNAL PAC is described to search for light sub-GeV WIMP dark matter at MiniBooNE. The possibility to steer the beam past the target and into an absorber leads to a significant reduction in neutrino background, allowing for a sensitive search for elastic scattering of WIMPs off nucleons or electrons in the detector. Dark matter models involving a vector mediator can be pr… ▽ More

    Submitted 9 November, 2012; originally announced November 2012.

    Comments: 27 pages, 18 figures. Proposal submitted to the FNAL PAC Oct 15 2012

  49. arXiv:1210.2296  [pdf, other

    hep-ex nucl-ex

    Letter of Intent: A new investigation of numu to nue oscillations with improved sensitivity in an enhanced MiniBooNE experiment

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, L. Bugel, R. Cooper, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, R. Ford, Z. Djurcic, F. G. Garcia, G. T. Garvey, J. Grange, S. Habib, W. Huelsnitz, R. Imlay, C. Jiang, G. Karagiorgi, W. C. Louis, R. A. Johnson, W. Marsh, C. Mauger, G. B. Mills, C. D. Moore, J. Mousseau, P. Nienaber, B. Osmanov , et al. (11 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We propose adding 300 mg/l PPO to the existing MiniBooNE detector mineral oil to increase the scintillation response. This will allow the detection of associated neutrons and increase sensitivity to final-state nucleons in neutrino interactions. This increased capability will enable an independent test of whether the current excess seen in the MiniBooNE oscillation search is signal or background.… ▽ More

    Submitted 8 October, 2012; originally announced October 2012.

    Comments: 27 pages, 12 figures, Letter of intent submitted to Fermilab for consideration, 10/12

  50. arXiv:1208.0862  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex hep-ph

    Search for anomalies in the neutrino sector with muon spectrometers and large LArTPC imaging detectors at CERN

    Authors: M. Antonello, D. Bagliani, B. Baibussinov, H. Bilokon, F. Boffelli, M. Bonesini, E. Calligarich, N. Canci, S. Centro, A. Cesana, K. Cieslik, D. B. Cline, A. G. Cocco, D. Dequal, A. Dermenev, R. Dolfini, M. De Gerone, S. Dussoni, C. Farnese, A. Fava, A. Ferrari, G. Fiorillo, G. T. Garvey, F. Gatti, D. Gibin , et al. (114 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: A new experiment with an intense ~2 GeV neutrino beam at CERN SPS is proposed in order to definitely clarify the possible existence of additional neutrino states, as pointed out by neutrino calibration source experiments, reactor and accelerator experiments and measure the corresponding oscillation parameters. The experiment is based on two identical LAr-TPCs complemented by magnetized spectromete… ▽ More

    Submitted 28 September, 2012; v1 submitted 3 August, 2012; originally announced August 2012.

    Comments: Contribution to the European Strategy for Particle Physics - Open Symposium Preparatory Group, Kracow 10-12 September 2012