MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) at Fermilab in Batavia, IL. MicroBooNE's two main physics goals are to investigate the MiniBooNE low-energy excess and neutrino-argon cross sections.[1][2] It will be part of a series of neutrino detectors along with the new Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) and moved ICARUS detector.

MicroBooNE was filled with argon in July 2015 and began data taking.[3] The collaboration announced that they had found evidence of the experiment's first neutrino interactions in November 2015.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "MicroBooNE Physics". MicroBooNE website. Fermilab. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  2. ↑ R. Acciarri, et al. (The MicroBooNE Collaboration) (February 2017). "Design and construction of the MicroBooNE detector". Journal of Instrumentation. 12 (2): P02017. arXiv:1612.05824. Bibcode:2017JInst..12P2017A. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/02/P02017.
  3. ↑ "The short-baseline detectives and the mysterious case of the sterile neutrino". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  4. ↑ "MicroBooNE sees first accelerator-born neutrinos". Symmetry. Retrieved 2016-05-31.


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