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The Muon Counter System for the MicroBooNE experiment

Instrumentation and Detectors 2016-04-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The MicroBooNE experiment is a liquid argon TPC experiment designed for short-baseline neutrino physics, currently running at Fermilab. Due to its location near the surface, cosmic muons can be a source of backgrounds to many analyses and having a good understanding of the cosmic rays will be very valuable for the experiment. These proceedings describe the physics motivation, setup, and performance of a small external muon counter system, which will provide improved calibration for the liquid argon TPC and better understanding of the cosmogenic background.

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@article{arxiv.1604.07858,
  title  = {The Muon Counter System for the MicroBooNE experiment},
  author = {Stefano Roberto Soleti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.07858},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Talk presented at NuPhys2015 (London, 16-18 December 2015). 4 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures

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