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Demonstration of <2 ns timing resolution for neutrino interaction in the MicroBooNE detector

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Demonstration of <2 ns timing resolution for neutrino interaction in the MicroBooNE detector. / MicroBooNE Collaboration.
2022.

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MicroBooNE Collaboration 2022 'Demonstration of <2 ns timing resolution for neutrino interaction in the MicroBooNE detector'. https://doi.org/10.2172/2397216

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MicroBooNE Collaboration (2022). Demonstration of <2 ns timing resolution for neutrino interaction in the MicroBooNE detector. https://doi.org/10.2172/2397216

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MicroBooNE Collaboration. Demonstration of <2 ns timing resolution for neutrino interaction in the MicroBooNE detector. 2022 May 30. doi: 10.2172/2397216

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MicroBooNE Collaboration. / Demonstration of <2 ns timing resolution for neutrino interaction in the MicroBooNE detector. 2022.

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title = "Demonstration of <2 ns timing resolution for neutrino interaction in the MicroBooNE detector",
abstract = "The MicroBooNE detector, located in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab, collected data from 2015 to 2021. MicroBooNE{\textquoteright}s Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber is accompanied by a Photon Detection System consisting of 32 PMTs used to measure the argon scintillation light and determine the timing of the neutrino interactions. This work employs improved analysis techniques combining light signals and reconstructed tracks achieving neutrino interaction timing resolution <2 ns. The result obtained allows MicroBooNE to access the 2 ns neutrino pulse structure of the BNB for the first time. The timing resolution achieved enables significant enhancement of cosmic background rejection for all neutrino analyses. Furthermore, the ns timing resolution opens the door for searching new long-lived-particles (e.g. Heavy Neutral Leptons, Higgs Portal Scalars) in MicroBooNE, as well in future large LArTPC experiments, namely SBN and DUNE.",
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AB - The MicroBooNE detector, located in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab, collected data from 2015 to 2021. MicroBooNE’s Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber is accompanied by a Photon Detection System consisting of 32 PMTs used to measure the argon scintillation light and determine the timing of the neutrino interactions. This work employs improved analysis techniques combining light signals and reconstructed tracks achieving neutrino interaction timing resolution <2 ns. The result obtained allows MicroBooNE to access the 2 ns neutrino pulse structure of the BNB for the first time. The timing resolution achieved enables significant enhancement of cosmic background rejection for all neutrino analyses. Furthermore, the ns timing resolution opens the door for searching new long-lived-particles (e.g. Heavy Neutral Leptons, Higgs Portal Scalars) in MicroBooNE, as well in future large LArTPC experiments, namely SBN and DUNE.

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