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MiniBooNE is an experiment designed to refute or confirm the LSND anti-nu_mu -> anti-nu_e oscillation result. MiniBooNE will look for oscillations of nu_mu -> nu_e in a closed-box appearance analysis. MiniBooNE began collecting data in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 H. Ray

The MiniBooNE experiment has observed a significant excess of electron neutrinos in a muon neutrino beam at source-detector distances too short to be compatible with standard neutrino oscillations. The most straightforward explanation for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Mona Dentler , Ivan Esteban , Joachim Kopp , Pedro Machado

Neutrino oscillations have been established in solar and atmospheric neutrinos, but a third signal from the LSND experiment is incompatible with three Standard Model neutrinos. The MiniBooNE experiment can confirm or refute the LSND…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Monroe

In this short review, we discuss the 2020 MiniBooNE electron neutrino appearance oscillation results with special attention on background predictions relevant to the MiniBooNE oscillation results and other (anti)electron neutrino appearance…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-14 Teppei Katori

MicroBooNE is a liquid-argon-based neutrino experiment, which began collecting data in Fermilab's Booster neutrino beam in October 2015. Physics goals of the experiment include probing the source of the anomalous excess of electron-like…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-05-16 Marco Del Tutto

This thesis describes an analysis developed for the MicroBooNE experiment to investigate an anomalous excess of electron-like events observed in the MiniBooNE detector. The hypothesis investigated here is that the MiniBooNE anomaly…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-10-29 Jarrett Moon

The Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE) searches for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations using the ~1 GeV neutrino beam produced by the FNAL Booster synchrotron. The array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) lining the MiniBooNE…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-18 R. B. Patterson , E. M. Laird , Y. Liu , P. D. Meyers , I. Stancu , H. A. Tanaka

Experiments designed to measure neutrino oscillations also provide major opportunities for discovering very weakly coupled states. In order to produce neutrinos, experiments such as LSND collide thousands of Coulombs of protons into fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-24 Rouven Essig , Roni Harnik , Jared Kaplan , Natalia Toro

The MiniBooNE experiment is a $\nu_\mu\to\nu_e$ and $\bar\nu_\mu\to\bar\nu_e$ appearance neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. The neutrino mode oscillation analysis shows an excess of $\nu_e$ candidate events in the low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Teppei Katori

We consider a model of neutrino oscillations with three additional sterile neutrinos and a gauged B-L interaction. We find allowed values of the model parameters which can reconcile the results of the evidence for antimuon neutrino to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ann E. Nelson , Jonathan Walsh

This paper reviews the results of the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments. The primary goal of each experiment was to effect sensitive searches for neutrino oscillations in the mass region with $\Delta m^2 \sim 1$ eV$^2$. The two experiments are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-16 Janet M. Conrad , William C. Louis , Michael H. Shaevitz

MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment that utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) located on-axis in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. One of the experiment's main goals is to search for excess low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-16 David Caratelli

A new generation of neutrino experiments is testing the $4.8\sigma$ anomalous excess of electron-like events observed in MiniBooNE. This is of huge importance for particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, not only because of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 C. A. Argüelles , I. Esteban , M. Hostert , K. J. Kelly , J. Kopp , P. A. N. Machado , I. Martinez-Soler , Y. F. Perez-Gonzalez

A proposal submitted to the FNAL PAC is described to search for light sub-GeV WIMP dark matter at MiniBooNE. The possibility to steer the beam past the target and into an absorber leads to a significant reduction in neutrino background,…

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab has updated its search for \nu_\mu-bar -> \nu_e-bar oscillations with data collected through May 2011. This represents a statistics increase of 52% over the result published in 2010. The data favor…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 E. D. Zimmerman

MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment based at Fermilab which consists of a liquid argon time-projection chamber in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB). The experiment aims to investigate the excess of electron-neutrino-like events seen by the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-03 Lauren E. Yates

The MiniBooNE low-energy excess stands as an unexplained anomaly in short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. It has been shown that it can be explained in the context of dark sector models. Here, we provide an overview of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-31 Asli M. Abdullahi , Jaime Hoefken Zink , Matheus Hostert , Daniele Massaro , Silvia Pascoli

The MicroBooNE experiment searched for an excess of electron-neutrinos in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB), providing direct constraints on $\nu_e$-interpretations of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess (LEE). In this article, we show that if…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Nicholas W. Kamp , Matheus Hostert , Carlos A. Argüelles , Janet M. Conrad , Michael H. Shaevitz

Recent results from MiniBooNE are described. These include neutrino oscillation results, low energy anomaly, and neutrino/antineutrino cross sections.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-05-20 Byron P. Roe