First Measurements of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon at 0.8 GeV Average Neutrino Energy with the MicroBooNE Detector

Tutto, M. Del

doi:10.2172/1515054

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“…A phenomenological study of heavy neutral leptons adopted yet different numbers, 6%/ √ E [GeV] for muons and 15%/ √ E [GeV] for electromagnetic showers [13]. A recent MicroBooNE thesis has found even better resolution for contained muons and good resolution on the neutral pion peak [80,81]. It is worth noting that some of the region of interest for our searches involves high energy particles that may not be contained in the detector, which would degrade both resolution and particle identification capabilities.…”

Section: Detector Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Probing the Higgs portal at the Fermilab short-baseline neutrino experiments

2019

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The Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) experiments, MicroBooNE, ICARUS, and SBND, are expected to have significant sensitivity to light weakly coupled hidden sector particles. Here we study the capability of the SBN experiments to probe dark scalars interacting through the Higgs portal. We investigate production of dark scalars using both the Fermilab Booster 8 GeV and NuMI 120 GeV proton beams, simulating kaons decaying to dark scalars and taking into account the beamline geometry. We also investigate strategies to mitigate backgrounds from beam-related neutrino scattering events. We find that SBND, with its comparatively short O(100 m) baseline, will have the best sensitivity to scalars produced with Booster, while ICARUS, with its large detector volume, will provide the best limits on off-axis dark scalar production from NuMI. The SBN experiments can provide leading tests of dark scalars with masses in the 50 -350 MeV range in the near term. Our results motivate dedicated experimental searches for dark scalars and other long-lived hidden sector states at these experiments. *

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Section: Detector Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%