Neutrino Event Selection in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber using Wire-Cell 3-D Imaging, Clustering, and Charge-Light Matching
Abstract
An accurate and efficient event reconstruction is required to realize the full scientific capability of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). The current and future neutrino experiments that rely on massive LArTPCs create a need for new ideas and reconstruction approaches. Wire-Cell, proposed in recent years, is a novel tomographic event reconstruction method for LArTPCs. The Wire-Cell 3D imaging approach capitalizes on charge, sparsity, time, and geometry information to reconstruct a topology-agnostic 3D image of the ionization electrons prior to pattern recognition. A second novel method, the many-to-many charge-light matching, then pairs the TPC charge activity to the detected scintillation light signal, thus enabling a powerful rejection of cosmic-ray muons in the MicroBooNE detector. A robust processing of the scintillation light signal and an appropriate clustering of the reconstructed 3D image are fundamental to this technique. In this paper, we describe the principles and algorithms of these techniques and their successful application in the MicroBooNE experiment. A quantitative evaluation of the performance of these techniques is presented. Using these techniques, a 95% efficient pre-selection of neutrino charged-current events is achieved with a 30-fold reduction of non-beam-coincident cosmic-ray muons, and about 80\% of the selected neutrino charged-current events are reconstructed with at least 70% completeness and 80% purity.
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@article{arxiv.2011.01375,
title = {Neutrino Event Selection in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber using Wire-Cell 3-D Imaging, Clustering, and Charge-Light Matching},
author = {MicroBooNE collaboration and P. Abratenko and M. Alrashed and R. An and J. Anthony and J. Asaadi and A. Ashkenazi and S. Balasubramanian and B. Baller and C. Barnes and G. Barr and V. Basque and L. Bathe-Peters and O. Benevides Rodrigues and S. Berkman and A. Bhanderi and A. Bhat and M. Bishai and A. Blake and T. Bolton and L. Camilleri and D. Caratelli and I. Caro Terrazas and R. Castillo Fernandez and F. Cavanna and G. Cerati and Y. Chen and E. Church and D. Cianci and J. M. Conrad and M. Convery and L. Cooper-Troendle and J. I. Crespo-Anadon and M. Del Tutto and D. Devitt and R. Diurba and L. Domine and R. Dorrill and K. Duffy and S. Dytman and B. Eberly and A. Ereditato and L. Escudero Sanchez and J. J. Evans and G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre and R. S. Fitzpatrick and B. T. Fleming and N. Foppiani and D. Franco and A. P. Furmanski and D. Garcia-Gamez and S. Gardiner and G. Ge and S. Gollapinni and O. Goodwin and E. Gramellini and P. Green and H. Greenlee and W. Gu and R. Guenette and P. Guzowski and E. Hall and P. Hamilton and O. Hen and G. A. Horton-Smith and A. Hourlier and E. C. Huang and R. Itay and C. James and J. Jan de Vries and X. Ji and L. Jiang and J. H. Jo and R. A. Johnson and Y. J. Jwa and N. Kamp and G. Karagiorgi and W. Ketchum and B. Kirby and M. Kirby and T. Kobilarcik and I. Kreslo and R. LaZur and I. Lepetic and K. Li and Y. Li and B. R. Littlejohn and D. Lorca and W. C. Louis and X. Luo and A. Marchionni and S. Marcocci and C. Mariani and D. Marsden and J. Marshall and J. Martin-Albo and D. A. Martinez Caicedo and K. Mason and A. Mastbaum and N. McConkey and V. Meddage and T. Mettler and K. Miller and J. Mills and K. Mistry and T. Mohayai and A. Mogan and J. Moon and M. Mooney and A. F. Moor and C. D. Moore and J. Mousseau and M. Murphy and D. Naples and A. Navrer-Agasson and R. K. Neely and P. Nienaber and J. Nowak and O. Palamara and V. Paolone and A. Papadopoulou and V. Papavassiliou and S. F. Pate and A. Paudel and Z. Pavlovic and E. Piasetzky and I. Ponce-Pinto and D. Porzio and S. Prince and X. Qian and J. L. Raaf and V. Radeka and A. Rafique and M. Reggiani-Guzzo and L. Ren and L. Rochester and J. Rodriguez Rondon and H. E. Rogers and M. Rosenberg and M. Ross-Lonergan and B. Russell and G. Scanavini and D. W. Schmitz and A. Schukraft and M. H. Shaevitz and R. Sharankova and J. Sinclair and A. Smith and E. L. Snider and M. Soderberg and S. Soldner-Rembold and S. R. Soleti and P. Spentzouris and J. Spitz and M. Stancari and J. St. John and T. Strauss and K. Sutton and S. Sword-Fehlberg and A. M. Szelc and N. Tagg and W. Tang and K. Terao and C. Thorpe and M. Toups and Y. -T. Tsai and S. Tufanli and M. A. Uchida and T. Usher and W. Van De Pontseele and B. Viren and M. Weber and H. Wei and Z. Williams and S. Wolbers and T. Wongjirad and M. Wospakrik and W. Wu and T. Yang and G. Yarbrough and L. E. Yates and H. W. Yu and G. P. Zeller and J. Zennamo and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01375},
year = {2021}
}