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MiniBooNE, the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab, will search for the appearance of electron neutrinos in a beam of muon neutrinos, and in the process will accumulate more neutrino interactions in the 0-2 GeV energy range than…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 J. L. Raaf

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

The possibility is considered that the verdict of the ongoing MiniBooNE neutrino experiment will favor neither of the contesting sides, stating in fact that the LSND effect with the original oscillation amplitude is not confirmed, but a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wojciech Krolikowski

The MicroBooNE experiment is a liquid argon TPC experiment designed for short-baseline neutrino physics, currently running at Fermilab. Due to its location near the surface, cosmic muons can be a source of backgrounds to many analyses and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-28 Stefano Roberto Soleti

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

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 signal…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Monroe

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

The low-energy excesses observed by the MiniBooNE experiment have, to date, defied a convinc- ing explanation under the standard model even with accommodation for non-zero neutrino mass. In this paper we explore a new oscillation mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-25 J. Asaadi , E. Church , R. Guenette , B. J. P. Jones , A. M. Szelc

The MicroBooNE experiment is a liquid argon time projection chamber with 85-ton active volume at Fermilab, operated from 2015 to 2020 to collect neutrino data from Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam. One of MicroBooNE's physics goals is to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-08 Guanqun Ge

Modelling and reconstructing neutrino-nucleus scattering is difficult, but it is crucial to do it precisely to enable next-generation oscillation measurements. Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), such as MicroBooNE, can be the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-05 Holly B. Parkinson , for the MicroBooNE Collaboration

The MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab uses 1520 8-inch PMTs: 1197 PMTs are Hamamatsu model R1408 and the rest are model R5912. All of the PMTs were tested to qualify for inclusion in the detector, sorted according to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrew O. Bazarko

The study of flavor changing neutrinos is a very active field of research. I will discuss the status of ongoing and near term experiments investigating neutrino properties at short distances from the source. In the next few years, the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-03-03 Mark Dierckxsens

MiniBooNE is expected to soon report analysis of their closed data set, and we here consider what effect direct non-standard neutrino interactions would have on their observations. Current direct limits on non-standard interactions make…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Loretta M. Johnson , R. Seton Williams , Laura F. Spencer , Burton J. DeWilde

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

We analyze the recent results of the MiniBooNE short-baseline experiment on antinu_mu -> antinu_e oscillations in a minimal model-independent framework of antineutrino mixing in conjunction with the positive LSND signal and the negative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Carlo Giunti , Marco Laveder

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 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 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

MiniBooNE at FermiLab should be able to confirm or refute the LSND Decay-in-Flight $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ oscillation signal within a few years. The primary evidence of neutrino oscillations from the LSND was in the anti-neutrino channel…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon J. VanDalen

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