Cosmic ray muon clustering for the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using sMask-RCNN
Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing 17:09 (2022) p09015
Differential cross section measurement of charged current νe interactions without final-state pions in MicroBooNE
Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 106:5 (2022) l051102
First Constraints on Heavy QCD Axions with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber using the ArgoNeuT Experiment
ArXiv 2207.08448 (2022)
Scintillation light detection in the 6-m drift-length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC
The European Physical Journal C SpringerOpen 82:7 (2022) 618
Abstract:
DUNE is a dual-site experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies, neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. ProtoDUNE Dual Phase (DP) is a 6 x 6 x 6 m3 liquid argon time-projection-chamber (LArTPC) that recorded cosmic-muon data at the CERN Neutrino Platform in 2019-2020 as a prototype of the DUNE Far Detector. Charged particles propagating through the LArTPC produce ionization and scintillation light. The scintillation light signal in these detectors can provide the trigger for non-beam events. In addition, it adds precise timing capabilities and improves the calorimetry measurements. In ProtoDUNE-DP, scintillation and electroluminescence light produced by cosmic muons in the LArTPC is collected by photomultiplier tubes placed up to 7m away from the ionizing track. In this paper, the ProtoDUNE-DP photon detection system performance is evaluated with a particular focus on the different wavelength shifters, such as PEN and TPB, and the use of Xe-doped LAr, considering its future use in giant LArTPCs. The scintillation light production and propagation processes are analyzed and a comparison of simulation to data is performed, improving understanding of the liquid argon propertiesSearch for long-lived heavy neutral leptons and Higgs portal scalars decaying in the MicroBooNE detector
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