May 14 – 17, 2024
SD Mines
US/Mountain timezone

Recent results from MicroBooNE and status of the Short-Baseline Neutrino program

May 16, 2024, 9:30 AM
30m
CB 204 E&W (SD Mines)

CB 204 E&W

SD Mines

Speaker

Dr Brandon Eberly (University of Southern Maine)

Description

The MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) operated in the BNB and NuMI neutrino beamlines as part of the short baseline neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab from 2015-2021. The experiment collected the world’s largest neutrino-argon scattering data set, which it has used to publish over 60 results covering its primary physics goals: (1) investigate the MiniBooNE low-energy excess and search for beyond-standard-model physics, (2) study neutrino-argon interactions, and (3) develop novel hardware and software for LArTPCs. This talk provides an overview of recent results from the MicroBooNE experiment, including a search for sterile neutrinos under a 3+1 oscillation model, heavy neutral lepton and dark-trident searches, and several inclusive and exclusive neutrino-argon cross section measurements. The talk concludes with an update on the status of the ICARUS and SBND detectors in the SBN program.

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