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Backgrounds in Neutrino Appearance Signal at MiniBooNE

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

The MiniBooNE (Booster Neutrino Experiment) experiment is a precise search for neutrino oscillations but is crucially sensitive to background processes that would mimic an oscillation signal. The background sources include intrinsic νe\nu_{e} from kaon and muon decays, mis-identified π0\pi^{0}, gammas from radiative delta decays, and muon neutrino events mis-identified as electrons. A summary of these backgrounds and the tools to handle them is presented.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0601014,
  title  = {Backgrounds in Neutrino Appearance Signal at MiniBooNE},
  author = {Zelimir Djurcic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0601014},
  year   = {2009}
}

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To appear in Proceedings of PANIC 2005 Conference, October 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 4 pages 3 figures