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The CAPTAIN Experiment

The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos (CAPTAIN) program is designed to make measurements of scientific importance to long-baseline neutrino physics and physics topics that will be explored by large…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-28 Jianming Bian

Photon Detection in the Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos (CAPTAIN)

The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos (CAPTAIN) is being built at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A hexagonal time projection chamber (TPC) with a 1 m drift length will be constructed inside a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-11 Keith Rielage

The Mini-CAPTAIN Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

This manuscript describes the commissioning of the Mini-CAPTAIN liquid argon detector in a neutron beam at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), which led to a first measurement of high-energy neutron interactions in argon. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-19 CAPTAIN Collaboration , C. E. Taylor , B. Bhandari , J. Bian , K. Bilton , C. Callahan , J. Chaves , H. Chen , D. Cline , R. L. Cooper , D. L. Danielson , J. Danielson , N. Dokania , S. Elliot , S. Fernandes , S. Gardiner , G. Garvey , V. Gehman , F. Giuliani , S. Glavin , M. Gold , C. Grant , E. Guardincerri , T. Haines , A. Higuera , J. Y. Ji , R. Kadel , N. Kamp , A. Karlin , W. Ketchum , L. W. Koerner , D. Lee , K. Lee , Q. Liu , S. Locke , W. C. Louis , P. Madigan , A. Manalaysay , J. Maricic , E. Martin , M. J. Martinez , S. Martynenko , C. Mauger , C. McGrew , J. Medina , P. J. Medina , G. Mills , J. Mirabal-Martinez , A. Olivier , E. Pantic , B. Philipbar , C. Pitcher , V. Radeka , J. Ramsey , K. Rielage , M. Rosen , A. R. Sanchez , J. Shin , G. Sinnis , M. Smy , W. Sondheim , I. Stancu , C. Sterbenz , Y. Sun , R. Svoboda , A. Teymourian , C. Thorn , C. E. Tull , M. Tzanov , R. Van de Water , N. Walsh , H. Wang , Y. Wang , C. Yanagisawa , A. Yarritu , J. Yoo

Neutrino-argon cross-section measurements from the MicroBooNE experiment

MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector located along the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam and 8 degrees off-axis to the Neutrinos at the Main Injector beam. MicroBooNE collected data from both beams…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-02 Liang Liu

Prospect for Charge Current Neutrino Interactions Measurements at the CERN-PS

Tensions in several phenomenological models grew with experimental results on neutrino/antineutrino oscillations at Short-Baseline (SBL) and with the recent, carefully recomputed, antineutrino fluxes from nuclear reactors. At a refurbished…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-11-10 P. Bernardini , A. Bertolin , C. Bozza , R. Brugnera , A. Cecchetti , S. Cecchini , G. Collazuol , F. Dal Corso , I. De Mitri , M. De Serio , D. Di Ferdinando , U. Dore , S. Dusini , P. Fabbricatore , C. Fanin , R. A. Fini , A. Garfagnini , G. Grella , U. Kose , M. Laveder , P. Loverre , A. Longhin , G. Marsella , G. Mancarella , G. Mandrioli , N. Mauri , E. Medinaceli , M. Mezzetto , M. T. Muciaccia , D. Orecchini , A. Paoloni , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , M. Pozzato , R. Rescigno , G. Rosa , S. Simone , M. Sioli , G. Sirri , M. Spurio , L. Stanco , S. Stellacci , A. Surdo , M. Tenti , V. Togo

Reconstruction for Liquid Argon TPC Neutrino Detectors Using Parallel Architectures

Neutrinos are particles that interact rarely, so identifying them requires large detectors which produce lots of data. Processing this data with the computing power available is becoming more difficult as the detectors increase in size to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Sophie Berkman , Giuseppe Cerati , Brian Gravelle , Boyana Norris , Allison Reinsvold Hall , Michael Wang

Neutrino detection in the ArgoNeuT LAr TPC

ArgoNeuT, a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr-TPC), has collected thousands of neutrino and anti-neutrino events between 0.1 and 10 GeV in the NuMI beamline at Fermilab (FNAL). Among other issues, the experiment will measure the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-10-17 O. Palamara

The liquid Argon TPC: a powerful detector for future neutrino experiments and proton decay searches

We discuss the possibility of new generation neutrino and astroparticle physics experiments exploiting the liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) technique, following a graded strategy that envisions applications with increasing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Ereditato , A. Rubbia

Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chambers in the U.S

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors are ideally suited for studying neutrino interactions and probing the parameters that characterize neutrino oscillations. The ability to drift ionization particles over long distances…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-02-04 M. Soderberg

MicroBooNE: A New Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Experiment

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber detectors are well suited to study neutrino interactions, and are an intriguing option for future massive detectors capable of measuring the parameters that characterize neutrino oscillations. These…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-02-10 M. Soderberg

Measurement of neutrino interactions in gaseous argon with T2K

The T2K near-detector, ND280, employs three large argon gas TPCs (Time Projection Chambers) for particle tracking and identification. The gas inside the TPCs can be used as an active target to study the neutrino interactions in great…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-11 Lukas Koch

Mini-LANNDD T40: A detector to measure the neutrino-argon cross section and the electron-neutrino contamination in the off-axis NuMI beam

We describe a preliminary study of a 40-ton liquid argon TPC based on the ICARUS method to use in the NuMI near region in line with the LANNDD project. This reduced-scale detector, called ``Mini-LANNDD T40'', is designed for R&D purposes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David B. Cline , Youngho Seo , Franco Sergiampietri

First Measurement of the Total Neutron Cross Section on Argon Between 100 and 800 MeV

We report the first measurement of the neutron cross section on argon in the energy range of 100-800 MeV. The measurement was obtained with a 4.3-hour exposure of the Mini-CAPTAIN detector to the WNR/LANSCE beam at LANL. The total cross…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-07-31 B. Bhandari , J. Bian , K. Bilton , C. Callahan , J. Chaves , H. Chen , D. Cline , R. L. Cooper , D. Danielson , J. Danielson , N. Dokania , S. Elliott , S. Fernandes , S. Gardiner , G. Garvey , V. Gehman , F. Giuliani , S. Glavin , M. Gold , C. Grant , E. Guardincerri , T. Haines , A. Higuera , J. Y. Ji , R. Kadel , N. Kamp , A. Karlin , W. Ketchum , L. W. Koerner , D. Lee , K. Lee , Q. Liu , S. Locke , W. C. Louis , A. Manalaysay , J. Maricic , E. Martin , M. J. Martinez , S. Martynenko , C. Mauger , C. McGrew , J. Medina , P. J. Medina , A. Mills , G. Mills , J. Mirabal-Martinez , A. Olivier , E. Pantic , B. Philipbar , C. Pitcher , V. Radeka , J. Ramsey , K. Rielage , M. Rosen , A. R. Sanchez , J. Shin , G. Sinnis , M. Smy , W. Sondheim , I. Stancu , C. Sterbenz , Y. Sun , R. Svoboda , C. Taylor , A. Teymourian , C. Thorn , C. E. Tull , M. Tzanov , R. G. Van de Water , D. Walker , N. Walsh , H. Wang , Y. Wang , C. Yanagisawa , A. Yarritu , J. Yoo

Analysis of a Large Sample of Neutrino-Induced Muons with the ArgoNeuT Detector

ArgoNeuT, or Argon Neutrino Test, is a 170 liter liquid argon time projection chamber designed to collect neutrino interactions from the NuMI beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. ArgoNeuT operated in the NuMI low-energy beam line…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Anderson , M. Antonello , B. Baller , T. Bolton , C. Bromberg , F. Cavanna , E. Church , D. Edmunds , A. Ereditato , S. Farooq , B. Fleming , H. Greenlee , R. Guenette , S. Haug , G. Horton-Smith , C. James , E. Klein , K. Lang , P. Laurens , S. Linden , D. McKee , R. Mehdiyev , B. Page , O. Palamara , K. Partyka , G. Rameika , B. Rebel , B. Rossi , M. Soderberg , J. Spitz , A. M. Szelc , M. Weber , T. Yang , G. P. Zeller

Neutrino oscillations with atmospheric neutrinos at large liquid argon TPCs

We propose to study atmospheric neutrino interactions with a unique event topology to distinguish neutrinos and anti-neutrinos using a liquid argon time projection chamber in an experiment such as DUNE. The detection of CC1P and CC0P events…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-05 Animesh Chatterjee , Albert De Roeck

Measurements of differential charged-current cross sections on argon for electron neutrinos with final-state protons in MicroBooNE

This work presents single-differential electron-neutrino charged-current cross sections on argon measured using the MicroBooNE detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The analysis uses data recorded when the Neutrinos at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-06 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , B. Behera , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , V. Bhelande , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , C. Fang , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , K. Gumpula , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , O. Hen , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hussain , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , D. Kalra , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , K. Kumar , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , L. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , T. Mahmud , N. Majeed , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , L. Mellet , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , K. Miller , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , E. L. Snider , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Liquid Argon TPC Trigger Development with SBND

The Short Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is a 112 ton active mass liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that will begin operations in the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab in 2020. Its main physics goals include high-statistics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-21 Georgia Karagiorgi

A 4 tonne demonstrator for large-scale dual-phase liquid argon time projection chambers

A 10 kilo-tonne dual-phase liquid argon TPC is one of the detector options considered for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). The detector technology relies on amplification of the ionisation charge in ultra-pure argon vapour…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-14 B. Aimard , Ch. Alt , J. Asaadi , M. Auger , V. Aushev , D. Autiero , M. M. Badoi , A. Balaceanu , G. Balik , L. Balleyguier , E. Bechetoille , D. Belver , A. M. Blebea-Apostu , S. Bolognesi , S. Bordoni , N. Bourgeois , B. Bourguille , J. Bremer , G. Brown , G. Brunetti , L. Brunetti , D. Caiulo , M. Calin , E. Calvo , M. Campanelli , K. Cankocak , C. Cantini , B. Carlus , B. M. Cautisanu , M. Chalifour , A. Chappuis , N. Charitonidis , A. Chatterjee , A. Chiriacescu , P. Chiu , S. Conforti , P. Cotte , P. Crivelli , C. Cuesta , J. Dawson , I. De Bonis , C. De La Taille , A. Delbart , D. Desforge , S. Di Luise , B. S. Dimitru , F. Doizon , C. Drancourt , D. Duchesneau , F. Dulucq , J. Dumarchez , F. Duval , S. Emery , A. Ereditato , T. Esanu , A. Falcone , K. Fusshoeller , A. Gallego-Ros , V. Galymov , N. Geroy , A. Gendotti , M. Gherghel-Lascu , C. Giganti , I. Gil-Botella , C. Girerd , M. C. Gomoiu , P. Gorodetzky , E. Hamada , R. Hanni , T. Hasegawa , A. Holin , S. Horikawa , M. Ikeno , S. Jimenez , A. Jipa , M. Karolak , Y. Karyotakis , S. Kasai , K. Kasami , T. Kishishita , I. Kreslo , D. Kryn , C. Lastoria , I. Lazanu , G. Lehmann-Miotto , N. Lira , K. Loo , D. Lorca , P. Lutz , T. Lux , J. Maalampi , G. Maire , M. Maki , L. Manenti , R. M. Margineanu , J. Marteau , G. Martin-Chassard , H. Mathez , E. Mazzucato , G. Misitano , B. Mitrica , D. Mladenov , L. Molina Bueno , C. Moreno Martinez , J. P. Mols , T. S. Mosu , W. Mug , A. Munteanu , S. Murphy , K. Nakayoshi , S. Narita , D. Navas-Nicolas , K. Negishi , M. Nessi , M. Niculescu-Oglinzanu , L. Nita , F. Noto , A. Noury , Y. Onishchuk , C. Palomares , M. Parvu , T. Patzak , Y. Penichot , E. Pennacchio , L. Periale , H. Pessard , F. Pietropaolo , Y. Piret , B. Popov , D. Pugnere , B. Radics , D. Redondo , C. Regenfus , A. Remoto , F. Resnati , Y. A. Rigaut , C. Ristea , A. Rubbia , A. Saftoiu , K. Sakashita , F. Sanchez , C. Santos , A. Scarpelli , C. Schloesser , L. Scotto Lavina , K. Sendai , F. Sergiampietri , S. Shahsavarani , M. Shoji , J. Sinclair , J. Soto-Oton , D. L. Stanca , D. Stefan , P. Stroescu , R. Sulej , M. Tanaka , V. Toboaru , A. Tonazzo , W. Tromeur , W. H. Trzaska , T. Uchida , F. Vannucci , G. Vasseur , A. Verdugo , T. Viant , S. Vihonen , S. Vilalte , M. Weber , S. Wu , J. Yu , L. Zambelli , M. Zito

Measurement of neutral current single $\pi^0$ production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

We report the first measurement of $\pi^0$ production in neutral current (NC) interactions on argon with average neutrino energy of $\lesssim1$~GeV. We use data from the MicroBooNE detector's 85-tonne active volume liquid argon time…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-09 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , J. Anthony , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , J. Barrow , V. Basque , L. Bathe-Peters , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , J. Y. Book , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , D. Cianci , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , A. Devitt , R. Diurba , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , R. Fine , O. G. Finnerud , G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , O. Hen , R. Hicks , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , R. Itay , C. James , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , D. Kalra , N. Kamp , N. Kaneshige , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , M. B. Leibovitch , I. Lepetic , J. -Y. Li , K. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , K. Manivannan , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , J. Mousseau , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , R. K. Neely , D. A. Newmark , J. Nowak , M. Nunes , N. Oza , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , A. Paudel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , I. Ponce-Pinto , S. Prince , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. C. J. Rice , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolph von Rohr , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , W. Tang , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , K. Wresilo , N. Wright , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Signal Processing in the MicroBooNE LArTPC

The MicroBooNE experiment is designed to observe interactions of neutrinos with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detector from the on-axis Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) and off-axis Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-03 Jyoti Joshi , Xin Qian