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LTP Colloquium

Recent Results from MicroBooNE

Thursday, November 18, 2021, 16:00
online only                                             (for the zoom link contact michael.spira@psi.ch, johannes.schlenk@psi.ch or antonio.coutinho@psi.ch)

Michele Weber, University of Bern

Abstract:
MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber that operated from 2015 to 2021 in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. The collaboration has collected the world's largest dataset of neutrino-argon scattering events with a detector providing high-resolution imaging of neutrino interactions with a low threshold and full angular coverage. Thanks to breakthroughs in technology and event reconstruction a detailed understanding of the neutrino interactions is possible. This has let to a series of physics measurements that will be presented. Furthermore I will show how it allowed to perform an investigation of the anomalous event excess observed by previous experiments. MicroBooNE is a milestone in view of the full Short-Baseline program at Fermilab and the future Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).