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A study of electron recombination using highly ionizing particles in the ArgoNeuT Liquid Argon TPC

Electron recombination in highly ionizing stopping protons and deuterons is studied in the ArgoNeuT detector. The data are well modeled by either a Birks model or a modified form of the Box model. The dependence of recombination on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Acciarri , C. Adams , J. Asaadi , B. Baller , T. Bolton , C. Bromberg , F. Cavanna , E. Church , D. Edmunds , A. Ereditato , S. Farooq , B. Fleming , H. Greenlee , G. Horton-Smith , C. James , E. Klein , K. Lang , P. Laurens , D. McKee , R. Mehdiyev , B. Page , O. Palamara , K. Partyka , G. Rameika , B. Rebel , M. Soderberg , J. Spitz , A. M. Szelc , M. Weber , M. Wojcik , T. Yang , G. P. Zeller

A Combined $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ and $\bar\nu_\mu \to \bar\nu_e$ Oscillation Analysis of the MiniBooNE Excesses

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of the combined $\nu_e$ and $\bar \nu_e$ appearance data from $6.46 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in neutrino mode and $11.27 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-12-05 MiniBooNE Collaboration , A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo , B. C. Brown , L. Bugel , G. Cheng , E. D. Church , J. M. Conrad , R. Dharmapalan , Z. Djurcic , D. A. Finley , R. Ford , F. G. Garcia , G. T. Garvey , J. Grange , W. Huelsnitz , C. Ignarra , R. Imlay , R. A. Johnson , G. Karagiorgi , T. Katori , T. Kobilarcik , W. C. Louis , C. Mariani , W. Marsh , G. B. Mills , J. Mirabal , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , P. Nienaber , B. Osmanov , Z. Pavlovic , D. Perevalov , C. C. Polly , H. Ray , B. P. Roe , A. D. Russell , M. H. Shaevitz , J. Spitz , I. Stancu , R. Tayloe , R. G. Van de Water , D. H. White , D. A. Wickremasinghe , G. P. Zeller , E. D. Zimmerman

JLab spectral functions of argon in NuWro and their implications for MicroBooNE

The Short-Baseline Neutrino program in Fermilab aims to resolve the nature of the low-energy excess events observed in LSND and MiniBooNE, and analyze with unprecedented precision neutrino interactions with argon. These studies require…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Rwik Dharmapal Banerjee , Artur M. Ankowski , Krzysztof M. Graczyk , Beata E. Kowal , Hemant Prasad , Jan T. Sobczyk

First constraint for atmospheric millicharged particles with the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment

We report on a search for millicharged particles (mCPs) produced in cosmic ray proton atmospheric interactions using data collected during the first science run of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment. The mCPs produced by two processes -- meson decay…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-19 J. Aalbers , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , S. Balashov , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , E. E. Barillier , D. Bauer , K. Beattie , T. Benson , A. Bhatti , A. Biekert , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , G. M. Blockinger , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. Buuck , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chawla , H. Chen , J. J. Cherwinka , Y. T. Chin , N. I. Chott , M. V. Converse , R. Coronel , A. Cottle , G. Cox , D. Curran , C. E. Dahl , I. Darlington , S. Dave , A. David , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , L. Di Felice , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. Dubey , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , S. Fayer , N. M. Fearon , N. Fieldhouse , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , A. Ghosh , R. Gibbons , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , J. J. Haiston , C. R. Hall , T. J. Hall , S. Han , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. A. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , G. Heuermann , G. J. Homenides , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , E. Jacquet , R. S. James , J. Johnson , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , Meghna K. K. , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , I. Khurana , J. Kim , Y. D. Kim , J. Kingston , R. Kirk , D. Kodroff , L. Korley , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , V. A. Kudryavtsev , C. Lawes , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , W. H. Lippincott , M. I. Lopes , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , S. Luitz , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , C. Maupin , M. E. McCarthy , G. McDowell , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , J. B. McLaughlin , R. McMonigle , E. Mizrachi , A. Monte , M. E. Monzani , J. D. Morales Mendoza , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , A. Naylor , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , C. L. O'Brien , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. Y Oyulmaz , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , N. J. Pannifer , N. Parveen , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , A. Richards , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , E. Ritchey , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , T. Rushton , D. Rynders , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , G. Sehr , B. Shafer , S. Shaw , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , G. Sinev , J. Siniscalco , R. Smith , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , A. Stevens , K. Stifter , B. Suerfu , T. J. Sumner , M. Szydagis , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , M. Tripathi , A. Usón , A. Vacheret , A. C. Vaitkus , O. Valentino , V. Velan , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , Y. Wang , J. R. Watson , L. Weeldreyer , T. J. Whitis , K. Wild , M. Williams , W. J. Wisniewski , L. Wolf , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , J. Xu , Y. Xu , M. Yeh , D. Yeum , W. Zha , E. A. Zweig

Discovery prospects for long-lived multiply charged particles at the LHC

In this work, we aim to provide a comprehensive and largely model independent investigation on prospects to detect long-lived multiply charged particles at the LHC. We consider particles with spin 0 and $\frac{1}{2}$, with electric charges…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-11 Mohammad Mahdi Altakach , Priyanka Lamba , Rafał Masełek , Vasiliki A. Mitsou , Kazuki Sakurai

A Concept for A Dark Matter Detector Using Liquid Helium-4

Direct searches for light dark matter particles (mass $<10$ GeV) are especially challenging because of the low energies transferred in elastic scattering to typical heavy nuclear targets. We investigate the possibility of using liquid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Wei Guo , Daniel N. McKinsey

Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system

The MicroBooNE detector utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) with an 85 t active mass to study neutrino interactions along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. With a deployment location near ground level, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-18 MicroBooNE collaboration , C. Adams , M. Alrashed , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , M. Auger , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , M. Bass , F. Bay , A. Bhat , K. Bhattacharya , 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 , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , A. Diaz , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , J. J. Evans , A. A. Fadeeva , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , G. T. Garvey , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , A. Hackenburg , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , V Hewes , C. Hill , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. -C. Huang , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , L. Jiang , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , 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 , A. Mastbaum , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , G. B. Mills , K. Mistry , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , R. Murrells , D. Naples , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Pandey , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , D. Porzio , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , A. Rafique , L. Rochester , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , 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 , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , M. Thomson , 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 , K. Wierman , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Improvement and Characterisation of the ArCLight Large-Area Dielectric Light Detector for Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chambers

The detection of scintillation light in noble-liquid detectors is necessary for identifying neutrino interaction candidates from beam, astrophysical, or solar sources. Large monolithic detectors typically have highly efficient light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-05 Jonas Bürgi , Livio Calivers , Richard Diurba , Fabian Frieden , Anja Gauch , Laura Francesca Iacob , Igor Kreslo , Jan Kunzmann , Saba Parsa , Michele Weber

Supernova Relic Neutrinos in Liquid Argon detectors

We study the possibility of detecting the background of Supernova Relic Neutrinos (SRN) with liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detectors. As far as this study is concerned, these experimental devices are mainly sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. G. Cocco , A. Ereditato , G. Fiorillo , G. Mangano , V. Pettorino

A Search for Sterile Neutrinos with PROSPECT

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) performs a precision measurement of reactor antineutrinos through inverse beta decay at a baseline range of 7-9 m from the core of the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR).…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-11-05 Olga Kyzylova

Performance of a 250L liquid Argon TPC for sub-GeV charged particle identification

We have constructed a liquid Argon TPC detector with fiducial mass of 150 kg as a part of the R&D program of the next generation neutrino and nucleon decay detector. This paper describes a study of particle identification performance of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 PARC T32 collaboration , O. Araoka , A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , S. Di Luise , U. Degunda , L. Epprecht , L. Esposito , A. Gendotti , T. Hasegawa , S. Horikawa , K. Kasami , N. Kimura , L. Knecht , T. Kobayashi , C. Lazzaro , D. Lussi , M. Maki , A. Marchionni , T. Maruyama , A. Meregaglia , T. Mitani , Y. Nagasaka , J. Naganoma , H. Naito , S. Narita , G. Natterer , K. Nguyen , K. Nishikawa , A. Okamoto , H. Okamoto , F. Petrolo , F. Resnati , B. Rossi , A. Rubbia , C. Strabel , M. Tanaka , T. Viant , Y. Yamanoi , K. Yorita , M. Yoshioka

Search for nucleon-nucleon correlations in neutrino-argon scattering

A sample of two proton and no pion events selected in the ArgoNeuT neutrino scattering experiment on liquid argon target [Phys. Rev. D90 (2014) 012008] is analyzed with NuWro Monte Carlo event generator. An attempt is made to estimate how…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-03-23 Kajetan Niewczas , Jan T. Sobczyk

Optimizing the Hit Finding Algorithm 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 even more difficult as the detectors increase in size…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-02 Sophie Berkman , Giuseppe Cerati , Kyle Knoepfel , Marc Mengel , Allison Reinsvold Hall , Michael Wang , Brian Gravelle , Boyana Norris

Scintillation Light from Cosmic-Ray Muons in Liquid Argon

This paper reports the results of an experiment to directly measure the time-resolved scintillation signal from the passage of cosmic-ray muons through liquid argon. Scintillation light from these muons is of value to studies of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-24 Denver Whittington , Stuart Mufson , Bruce Howard

Searching for Millicharged Particles with Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities

We demonstrate that superconducting radio-frequency cavities can be used to create and detect millicharged particles and are capable of extending the reach to couplings several orders of magnitude beyond other laboratory based constraints.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Asher Berlin , Anson Hook

Counting muons to probe the neutrino mass spectrum

The experimental evidence that \theta_{13} is large opens new opportunities to identify the neutrino mass spectrum. We outline a possibility to investigate this issue by means of conventional technology. The ideal setup turns out to be long…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-04 Carolina Lujan-Peschard , Giulia Pagliaroli , Francesco Vissani

Real-time Anomaly Detection for Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

We present a real-time anomaly detection framework for liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), targeting applications in particle physics experiments such as the Short Baseline Near Detector or the future Deep Underground Neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-28 Seokju Chung , Jack Cleeve , Akshay Malige , Georgia Karagiorgi , Lino Gerlach , Adrian A. Pol , Isobel Ojalvo

First demonstration of $\mathcal{O}(1\,\text{ns})$ timing resolution in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment located in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab, which collected data from 2015 to 2021. MicroBooNE's liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is accompanied by a photon detection system…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-31 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , O. Alterkait , D. Andrade Aldana , J. Anthony , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , G. Barr , J. Barrow , V. Basque , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , M. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , J. Y. Book , L. Camilleri , Y. Cao , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , A. Devitt , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , R. Fine , O. G. Finnerud , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , W. Foreman , 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 , Z. Imani , B. Irwin , R. Itay , C. James , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , D. Kalra , N. Kamp , 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 , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , 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 , 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 , I. Ponce-Pinto , I. Pophale , S. Prince , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , 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 , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , W. Tang , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , 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 , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Nucleon Decay Searches with large Liquid Argon TPC Detectors at Shallow Depths: atmospheric neutrinos and cosmogenic backgrounds

Grand Unification of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions into a single unified gauge group is an extremely appealing idea which has been vigorously pursued theoretically and experimentally for many years. The detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 A. Bueno , Z. Dai , Y. Ge , M. Laffranchi , A. J. Melgarejo , A. Meregaglia , S. Navas , A. Rubbia

Design, Calibration, and Performance of the MINERvA Detector

The MINERvA experiment is designed to perform precision studies of neutrino-nucleus scattering using $\nu_\mu$ and ${\bar\nu}_\mu$ neutrinos incident at 1-20 GeV in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. This article presents a detailed description of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-12 L. Aliaga , L. Bagby , B. Baldin , A. Baumbaugh , A. Bodek , R. Bradford , W. K. Brooks , D. Boehnlein , S. Boyd , H. Budd , A. Butkevich , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , C. M. Castromonte , M. E. Christy , J. Chvojka , H. da Motta , D. S. Damiani , I. Danko , M. Datta , R. DeMaat , J. Devan , E. Draeger , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Diaz , B. Eberly , D. A. Edmondson , J. Felix , L. Fields , G. A. Fiorentini , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , C. A. George , C. Gingu , B. Gobbi , R. Gran , N. Grossman , D. A. Harris , J. Heaton , A. Higuera , J. A. Hobbs , I. J. Howley , K. Hurtado , M. Jerkins , T. Kafka , M. O. Kantner , C. Keppel , J. Kilmer , A. H. Krajeski , H. Lee , A. G. Leister , G. Locke , G. Maggi , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , K. S. McFarland , C. L. McGivern , A. M. McGowan , J. G. Morfin , J. Mousseau , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , G. Niculescu , I. Niculescu , C. D. O'Connor , N. Ochoa , J. Olsen , B. Osmanov , J. Osta , J. L. Palomino , V. Paolone , J. Park , G. N. Perdue , C. Pena , A. Pla-Dalmau , L. Rakotondravohitra , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , P. Rubinov , C. Rude , K. E. Sassin , H. Schellman , D. W. Schmitz , R. M. Schneider , C. Simon , F. D. Snider , M. C. Snyder , C. J. Solano Salinas , N. Tagg , B. G. Tice , R. N. Tilden , G. Tzanakos , J. P. Velasquez , T. Walton , A. Westerberg , J. Wolcott , B. A. Wolthuis , N. Woodward , T. Wytock , G. Zavala , D. Zhang , L. Y. Zhu , B. P. Ziemer