Weak Interaction Discussion Group Seminar: Ariana Hackenburg, Yale University, “Searching for Neutral Current π 0s in MicroBooNE"

Tuesday Apr 28, 2015, 12:00 PM → 1:00 PM US/Eastern

WLC 108

MicroBooNE, situated 470m from it’s target in Booster Neutrino Beam, is a neutrino oscillation experiment designed primarily to determine the nature of the MiniBoone low energy ve excess appearance. One of the major backgrounds we (and many neutrino oscillation experiments) face in this signature appearance search are neutral current (NC) νµ interactions, which result in a single π0. Little data exists today to quantify the cross section of NC π0 production. Here I discuss how we can locate these events in MicroBooNE and eventually using them to make a cross section measurement.