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Dr Alesha Devitt

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  1. Published

    Wire-Cell 3D Pattern Recognition Techniques for Neutrino Event Reconstruction in Large LArTPCs: Algorithm Description and Quantitative Evaluation with MicroBooNE Simulation

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 31/01/2022, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 17, 1, PO1037.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Vertex-finding and reconstruction of contained two-track neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A. & Nowak, J., 11/02/2021, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 16, 35 p., P02017.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    The Pandora multi-algorithm approach to automated pattern recognition of cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector

    Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A., Nowak, J. & MicroBooNE Collaboration, 29/01/2018, In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 78, 25 p., 82.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    The Continuous Readout Stream of the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber for Detection of Supernova Burst Neutrinos

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 5/02/2021, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 16, P02008.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Semantic Segmentation with a Sparse Convolutional Neural Network for Event Reconstruction in MicroBooNE

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 26/03/2021, In: Physical Review D. 103, 5, 15 p., 052012.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons and Higgs portal scalars decaying in the MicroBooNE detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 28/11/2022, In: Physical Review D. 106, 9, 19 p., 092006.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Search for heavy neutral leptons in electron-positron and neutral-pion final states with the MicroBooNE detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Gu, L., Mawby, I., Nowak, J., Patel, N., Pophale, I. & Thorpe, C., 22/01/2024, In: Physical review letters. 132, 4, 041801.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Search for heavy neutral leptons decaying into muon-pion pairs in the MicroBooNE detector

    MicroBooNE collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A. & Nowak, J., 4/03/2020, In: Physical Review D. 101, 5, 11 p., 052001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Search for an Excess of Electron Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE Using Multiple Final State Topologies

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Lister, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 13/06/2022, In: Physical review letters. 128, 24, 9 p., 241801.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Search for an anomalous excess of inclusive charged-current $ν_e$ interactions in the MicroBooNE experiment using Wire-Cell reconstruction

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 13/06/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 11, 39 p., 112005.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Search for an anomalous excess of charged-current quasi-elastic $ν_e$ interactions with the MicroBooNE experiment using Deep-Learning-based reconstruction

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 13/06/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 11, 39 p., 112003.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Search for an anomalous excess of charged-current $ν_e$ interactions without pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE experiment

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Lister, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 13/06/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 11, 18 p., 112004.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Search for a Higgs portal scalar decaying to electron-positron pairs in the MicroBooNE detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 8/10/2021, In: Physical review letters. 127, 15, 8 p., 151803.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Rejecting cosmic background for exclusive charged current quasi elastic neutrino interaction studies with Liquid Argon TPCs: a case study with the MicroBooNE detector

    MircoBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A. & Nowak, J., 12/08/2019, In: European Physical Journal D. 79, 8, 12 p., 673.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Reconstruction and measurement of (100) MeV energy electromagnetic activity from π 0 arrow γγ decays in the MicroBooNE LArTPC

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A. & Nowak, J., 10/02/2020, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 15, 2, P02007.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Observation of Radon Mitigation in MicroBooNE by a Liquid Argon Filtration System

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 16/11/2022, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 17, 11, 17 p., P11022.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Novel Approach for Evaluating Detector-Related Uncertainties in a LArTPC Using MicroBooNE Data

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 17/05/2022, In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 82, 14 p., 454.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Noise Characterization and Filtering in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC

    MircoBooNE Collaboration, 4/08/2017, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 12, 8, 36 p., P08003.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    New CC0p GENIE model tune for MicroBooNE

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 4/04/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 7, 23 p., 072001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    New CC0p GENIE model tune for MicroBooNE

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, 4/04/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 7, 23 p., 072001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Neutrino Event Selection in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber using Wire-Cell 3-D Imaging, Clustering, and Charge-Light Matching

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 30/06/2021, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 16, 51 p., P06043.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Multi-Differential Cross Section Measurements of Muon-Neutrino-Argon Quasielastic-like Reactions with the MicroBooNE Detector

    Collaboration, ME., Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Thorpe, C., Patel, N. & Pophale, I., 1/09/2023, In: Physical Review D. 108, 5, 053002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Michel Electron Reconstruction Using Cosmic-Ray Data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, 09/2017, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 12, 26 p., P09014.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Measurement of the Longitudinal Diffusion of Ionization Electrons in the MicroBooNE Detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 22/09/2021, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 16, 9, 33 p., P09025.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Measurement of the Flux-Averaged Inclusive Charged-Current Electron Neutrino and Antineutrino Cross Section on Argon using the NuMI Beam and the MicroBooNE Detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 1/09/2021, In: Physical Review D. 104, 5, 052002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Rate with the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 12/04/2021, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 16, 23 p., P04004.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

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

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 31/12/2020, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 15, 38 p., P12037.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Forthcoming

    Measurement of nuclear effects in neutrino-argon interactions using generalized kinematic imbalance variables with the MicroBooNE detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Devitt, A., Blake, A., Gu, L., Nowak, J., Pophale, I., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 16/02/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Physical Review D.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

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

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 25/01/2023, In: Physical Review D. 107, 1, 012004.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. Published

    Measurement of differential cross sections for νμ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 1/12/2020, In: Physical Review D. 102, 11, 23 p., 112013.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  31. Published

    Measurement of cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiencies in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using a small external cosmic-ray counter

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, 12/2017, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 12, 19 p., P12030.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  32. Forthcoming

    Measurement of ambient radon daughter decay rates and energy spectra in liquid argon using the MicroBooNE detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N., Pophale, I. & Thorpe, C., 23/02/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Physical Review D.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  33. Published

    Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs II. Data/Simulation Comparison and Performance in MicroBooNE

    Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A., Nowak, J. & MicroBooNE Collaboration, 6/07/2018, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 49 p., P07007.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Published

    Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs I. Algorithm Description and Quantitative Evaluation with MicroBooNE Simulation

    Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A., Nowak, J. & MicroBooNE Collaboration, 6/07/2018, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 13, 7, 60 p., P07006.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  35. Published

    First measurement of νμ charged-current π0 production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A. & Nowak, J., 13/05/2019, In: Physical Review D. 99, 9, 7 p., 091102.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published

    First Measurement of Quasielastic Λ Baryon Production in Muon Antineutrino Interactions in the MicroBooNE Detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, 9/06/2023, In: Physical review letters. 130, 23, 231802.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  37. Published

    First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon at E-nu similar to 0.8 GeV with the MicroBooNE Detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A. & Nowak, J., 23/09/2019, In: Physical review letters. 123, 13, 7 p., 131801.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. Published

    First Measurement of Inclusive Electron-Neutrino and Antineutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections in Charged Lepton Energy on Argon in MicroBooNE

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N., Thorpe, C. & Devitt, A., 14/03/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 5, 7 p., 051102.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  39. Published

    First Measurement of Energy-dependent Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 15/04/2022, In: Physical review letters. 128, 15, p. 151801 9 p., 151801.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. Published

    First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielastic–like νμ–Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Nowak, J., Blake, A., Devitt, D. & Thorpe, C., 13/11/2020, In: Physical review letters. 125, 20, 8 p., 201803.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Forthcoming

    First measurement of $η$ production in neutrino interactions on argon with MicroBooNE

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N., Pophale, I. & Thorpe, C., 13/03/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Physical review letters.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  42. Published

    First double-differential measurement of kinematic imbalance in neutrino interactions with the MicroBooNE detector

    Collaboration, ME., Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Thorpe, C., Patel, N. & Pophale, I., 8/09/2023, In: Physical review letters. 131, 10, 101802.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  43. Published

    First demonstration of O ( 1     ns ) timing resolution in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N., Pophale, I. & Thorpe, C., 20/09/2023, In: Physical Review D. 108, 5, 052010.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  44. Published

    First constraints on light sterile neutrino oscillations from combined appearance and disappearance searches with the MicroBooNE detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N., Pophale, I. & Thorpe, C., 5/01/2023, In: Physical review letters. 130, 1, 011801.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  45. Published

    Electromagnetic Shower Reconstruction and Energy Validation with Michel Electrons and $π^0$ Samples for the Deep-Learning-Based Analyses in MicroBooNE

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 22/12/2021, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 16, 28 p., T12017.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  46. Published
  47. Published

    Determination of muon momentum in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using an improved model of multiple Coulomb scattering

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, 18/10/2017, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 12, 24 p., P10010.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  48. Published

    Design and Construction of the MicroBooNE Detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, 24/02/2017, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 12, 93 p., P02017.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  49. Published

    Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A. & Nowak, J., 8/04/2019, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 14, 4, 04004.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  50. Published

    Deep neural network for pixel-level electromagnetic particle identification in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

    Adams, C., Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A., Nowak, J. & MicroBooNE collaboration, 7/05/2019, In: Physical Review D. 99, 9, 20 p., 092001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  51. Published

    Cosmic ray muon clustering for the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using sMask-RCNN

    The MicroBooNE collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J., Patel, N. & Thorpe, C., 12/09/2022, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 17, 9, 28 p., P09015.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  52. Published

    Cosmic Ray Background Rejection with Wire-Cell LArTPC Event Reconstruction in the MicroBooNE Detector

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 29/06/2021, In: Physical Review Applied. 15, 6, 30 p., 064071.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  53. Published

    Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to Neutrino Events in a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, 14/03/2017, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 12, 57 p., P03011.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  54. Published

    Comparison of νμ-Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions: MicroBooNE Collaboration

    Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A., Nowak, J. & MicroBooNE, 18/03/2019, In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 79, 3, 31 p., 248.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  55. Published

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

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, A., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 21/12/2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 20 p., 153.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  56. Published

    Calibration of the charge and energy response of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using muons and protons

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A. & Nowak, J., 24/03/2020, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 15, P03022.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  57. Published

    A Method to Determine the Electric Field of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers Using a UV Laser System and its Application in MicroBooNE

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Lister, A. & Nowak, J., 10/07/2020, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 15, 7, 47 p., P07010.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  58. Published

    A Measurement of Single Charged Pion Production in MicroBooNE

    Devitt, A., 2023, Lancaster University. 103 p.

    Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

  59. Published

    A Convolutional Neural Network for Multiple Particle Identification in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

    MicroBooNE Collaboration, Blake, A., Devitt, D., Nowak, J. & Thorpe, C., 1/05/2021, In: Physical Review D. 103, 9, 32 p., 092003.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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