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Automated proton track identification in MicroBooNE using gradient boosted decision trees

MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino experiment that is currently running in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. LArTPC technology allows for high-resolution, three-dimensional representations of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-04 Katherine Woodruff , the MicroBooNE Collaboration

Gas contamination and mitigation in a 100 m$^3$ / 10 bar argon TPC with optical readout: a viability study

Gaseous Optical Time Projection Chambers (OTPCs) aimed at Neutrino Physics and Rare Event Searches will likely exceed the tonne scale during the next decade. This will make their performance sensitive to gas contamination levels as low as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-01 D. J. Fernández-Posada , D. González-Díaz , J. Baldonedo , J. Collazo , E. Casarejos , P. Hamacher-Baumann , P. Amedo , J. Llerena

Calorimetric classification of track-like signatures in liquid argon TPCs using MicroBooNE data

The MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located at Fermilab is a neutrino experiment dedicated to the study of short-baseline oscillations, the measurements of neutrino cross sections in liquid argon, and to the research and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-05 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , V. Basque , L. Bathe-Peters , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , D. Devitt , R. Diurba , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , R. Fine , 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 , E. Hall , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , R. Itay , C. James , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , N. Kamp , N. Kaneshige , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , R. LaZur , I. Lepetic , 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 , J. Moon , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , R. K. Neely , J. Nowak , M. Nunes , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , 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 , H. E. Rogers , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , 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 , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Totani , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , N. Wright , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Low Noise Cold Electronics System for SBND LAr TPC

The Short Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is one of three liquid argon (LAr) neutrino detectors sitting in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab as part of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program. The detector is in a cryostat holding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-16 Shanshan Gao

Long-term operation of a double phase LAr LEM Time Projection Chamber with a simplified anode and extraction-grid design

We report on the successful operation of a double phase Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC) equipped with two dimensional projective anodes with dimensions 10$\times$10 cm$^2$, and with a maximum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Cantini , L. Epprecht , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , S. Murphy , G. Natterer , L. Periale , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , F. Sergiampietri , T. Viant , S. Wu

New read-out electronics for ICARUS-T600 liquid Argon TPC. Description, simulation and tests of the new front-end and ADC system

The ICARUS T600, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC) detector mainly devoted to neutrino physics, underwent a major overhauling at CERN in 2016-2017, which included also a new design of the read-out electronics, in view of its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 L. Bagby , B. Baibussinov , V. Bellini , M. Bonesini , A. Braggiotti , L. Castellani , S. Centro , T. Cervi , A. G. Cocco , F. Fabris , A. Falcone , C. Farnese , A. Fava , F. Fichera , D. Franciotti , G. Galet , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , R. Guida , W. Ketchum , S. Marchini , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , G. Menon , C. Montanari , M. Nessi , M. Nicoletto , R. Pedrotta , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , G. Rampazzo , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , A. Scaramelli , F. Sergiampietri , M. Spanu , M. Torti , F. Tortorici , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , A. Zani , P. G. Zatti

Calibration of the charge and energy loss per unit length of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using muons and protons

We describe a method used to calibrate the position- and time-dependent response of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber anode wires to ionization particle energy loss. The method makes use of crossing cosmic-ray muons to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-07 MicroBooNE collaboration , C. Adams , M. Alrashed , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , V. Basque , M. Bass , F. Bay , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Carr , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. O. Cohen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , A. Diaz , L. Domine , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , J. J. Evans , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , C. Hill , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. C. Huang , R. Itay , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , Y. J. Jwa , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , I. Lepetic , Y. Li , A. Lister , B. R. Littlejohn , S. Lockwitz , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , M. Luethi , B. Lundberg , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , S. Marcocci , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , J. Martin-Albo , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , R. Murrells , D. Naples , R. K. Neely , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Pandey , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , A. Paudel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , D. Porzio , S. Prince , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , A. Rafique , L. Ren , L. Rochester , H. E. Rogers , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , R. T. Thornton , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , D. A. Wickremasinghe , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , M. Wospakrik , W. Wu , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

ARIADNE -- A Novel Optical LArTPC: Technical Design Report and Initial Characterisation using a Secondary Beam from the CERN PS and Cosmic Muons

ARIADNE is a 1-ton (330 kg fiducial mass) dual-phase liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) featuring a novel optical readout. Four electron-multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD) cameras are mounted externally, and these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-04 D. Hollywood , K. Majumdar , K. Mavrokoridis , K. J. McCormick , B. Philippou , S. Powell , A. Roberts , N. A. Smith , G. Stavrakis , C. Touramanis , J. Vann

Accelerator-based Short-baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Over the last two decades, several experiments have reported anomalous results that could be hinting at the exciting possibility of sterile neutrino states in the $eV^{2}$ mass scale. Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Sowjanya Gollapinni

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

Measurement of Space Charge Effects in the MicroBooNE LArTPC Using Cosmic Muons

Large liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), especially those operating near the surface, are susceptible to space charge effects. In the context of LArTPCs, the space charge effect is the build-up of slow-moving positive ions in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , M. Alrashed , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , V. Basque , L. Bathe-Peters , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. O. Cohen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , R. Diurba , L. Domine , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. J. Evans , G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , E. Hall , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. C. Huang , R. Itay , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , N. Kamp , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , R. LaZur , I. Lepetic , K. Li , Y. Li , B. R. Littlejohn , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , S. Marcocci , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , J. Martin-Albo , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , R. K. Neely , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , A. Paudel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , I. Ponce-Pinto , D. Porzio , S. Prince , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , H. E. Rogers , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , B. Russell , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , R. T. Thornton , C. Thorpe , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , W. Wu , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

First results from a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber in a Magnetic Field

A small liquid argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) was operated for the first time in a magnetic field of 0.55 Tesla. The imaging properties of the detector were not affected by the magnetic field. In a test run with cosmic rays a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Badertscher , M. Laffranchi , A. Meregaglia , A. Mueller , A. Rubbia

A Hybrid 3D/2D Field Response Calculation for Liquid Argon Detectors with PCB Based Anode Plane

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology is commonly utilized in neutrino detector designs. It enables detailed reconstruction of neutrino events with high spatial precision and low energy threshold. Its field response (FR)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-03 S. Martynenko , F. Pietropaolo , B. Viren , X. Qian , H. Chen , S. Gao , W. Gu , J. Jo , S. Kettell , Y. Li , H. Liu , N. Nayak , B. Yu , H. Yu , C. Zhang , U. Kose , F. Resnati , S. Tufanli , F. Boran , F. Dolek

First operation of a double phase LAr Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber with a two-dimensional projective readout anode

We have previously reported on the construction and successful operation of the novel double phase Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). This detector concept provides a 3D-tracking and calorimetric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , A. Marchionni , G. Natterer , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

Status of the MicroBooNE Low Energy Excess Search

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

Exploring Neutrino Interactions with MicroBooNE

Recently, MiniBooNE observed an electromagnetic excess at low energy. What is the nature of this excess? What about the nature of the low-energy excess at LSND 20 years ago? The MicroBooNE detector will see neutrinos from the same Booster…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-18 Tia Miceli

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

First operation and performance of a 200 lt double phase LAr LEM-TPC with a 40x76 cm^2 readout

In this paper we describe the design, construction, and operation of a first large area double-phase liquid argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). The detector has a maximum drift length of 60 cm and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , U. Degunda , L. Epprecht , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , D. Lussi G. Natterer , K. Nguyen , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

DNN-based Signal Processing for Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

We investigate a deep learning-based signal processing for liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), a leading detector technology in neutrino physics. Identifying regions of interest (ROIs) in LArTPCs is challenging due to signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-30 Avinay Bhat , Mun Jung Jung , Gray Putnam , Haiwang Yu

Prototype Analog Front-end for Negative-ion Gas and Dual-phase Liquid-Ar TPCs

We report on the recent development of a versatile analog front-end compatible with a negative-ion $\mu$-TPC for a directional dark matter search as well as a dual-phase, next-generation $\mathcal{O}$(10~kt) liquid argon TPC to study…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 Miki Nakazawa , Tetsuichi Kishishita , Masayoshi Shoji , Ken Sakashita , Tomonori Ikeda , Hirohisa Ishiura , James B. R. Battat , Catherine Nicoloff , Manobu M. Tanaka , Takuya Hasegawa , Kentaro Miuchi