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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 physics motivations, design, and status of the Booster Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab, MiniBooNE, are briefly discussed. Particular emphasis is given on the ongoing preparatory work that is needed for the MiniBooNE muon neutrino to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Michel Sorel

The strong statistical significance of an observed electron-like event excess in the MiniBooNE (MB) experiment, along with an earlier similar excess seen in the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND), when interpreted in conjunction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-12 Waleed Abdallah , Raj Gandhi , Samiran Roy

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of $\bar \nu_e$ appearance data from $11.27 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in antineutrino mode, an increase of approximately a factor of two over the previously…

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 experimental observation of neutrino oscillations profoundly impacted the physics of neutrinos, from being well understood theoretically to requiring new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. Indeed, the mystery of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-28 Nicolò Foppiani

We consider the non-oscillatory explanations of the low energy excess of events detected by MiniBooNE. We present a systematic search for phenomenological scenarios based on new physics which can produce the excess. We define scenarios as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-12 Vedran Brdar , Oliver Fischer , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

The MiniBooNE collaboration recently released a report claiming have observed an excess of electron and anti-electron neutrino with significance of $4.8 \, \sigma$ C.L. corroborating, in this way, the long-standing LSND anomaly. Combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-27 C. A. de S. Pires

This paper examines sterile neutrino oscillation models in light of recently published results from the MiniBooNE Experiment. The new MiniBooNE data include the updated neutrino results, including the low energy region, and the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 G. Karagiorgi , Z. Djurcic , J. M. Conrad , M. H. Shaevitz , M. Sorel

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

Heavy neutrinos with additional interactions have recently been proposed as an explanation to the MiniBooNE excess. These scenarios often rely on marginally boosted particles to explain the excess angular spectrum, thus predicting large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-17 Carlos A. Argüelles , Matheus Hostert , Yu-Dai Tsai

Neutrino oscillations have been observed in three sectors : solar ($\nu_e$ disappearance), atmospheric ($\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance), and accelerator ($\bar{\nu_{\mu}} \to \bar{\nu_e}$). The probability for two-neutrino oscillation is a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Ray

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

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Zelimir Djurcic

MicroBooNE (the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment) is a liquid argon time-projection chamber (TPC) experiment designed for short-baseline neutrino physics, currently running at Fermilab. It aims to address the anomalous excess of low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-15 Nicolò Foppiani

Long-standing anomalous experimental results from short-baseline neutrino experiments have persisted for decades. These results, when interpreted with one or more light sterile neutrinos, are inconsistent with numerous null results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-10 Matheus Hostert , Kevin J. Kelly , Tao Zhou

We present the results of a new analysis of the data of the MiniBooNE experiment taking into account the additional background of photons from $\Delta^{+/0}$ decay proposed in arXiv:1909.08571 and additional contributions due to coherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 C. Giunti , A. Ioannisian , G. Ranucci

The MiniBooNE experiment has reported results from the analysis of $\nu _e$ and $\bar \nu _e$ appearance searches, which show an excess of signal-like events at low reconstructed neutrino energies, with respect to the expected background. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Wang , L. Alvarez-Ruso , J. Nieves

The electron-like excess observed by the MiniBooNE experiment is explained with a model comprising a new low mass state ($\mathcal{O}(1)$ eV) participating in neutrino oscillations and a new high mass state ($\mathcal{O}(100)$ MeV) that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Stefano Vergani , Nicholas W. Kamp , Alejandro Diaz , Carlos A. Argüelles , Janet M. Conrad , Michael H. Shaevitz , Melissa A. Uchida

A sterile neutrino is a well motivated minimal new physics model that leaves an imprint in neutrino oscillations. Over the last two decades, a number of hints pointing to a sterile neutrino have emerged, many of which are pointing near…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-03 Peter B. Denton