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Selection of charged-current neutrino-induced K++ production interactions in MicroBooNE

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MicroBooNE Collaboration. Selection of charged-current neutrino-induced K++ production interactions in MicroBooNE. 2020 Jun 23. doi: 10.2172/2397305

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title = "Selection of charged-current neutrino-induced K++ production interactions in MicroBooNE",
abstract = "MicroBooNE is an 85-ton active mass liquid-argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. MicroBooNE{\textquoteright}s physics goals is the precision measurement of neutrino interactions on argon in the 1 GeV energy regime. The study of neutrino interactions producing a K + in the final-state can improve the background estimates for future proton-decay experiments looking for the p → K + ν channel on argon such as DUNE. In this document we present a simulation study for a selection of events with a K + that is produced in a charged-current neutrino interaction and decays into a µ+ and a νµ in the MicroBooNE detector. It will focus on how we use the particle identification techniques developed by MicroBooNE to achieve a sample with a 7% efficiency and 66.7% purity. This is the first step toward a charged-current kaon production cross section measurement in argon.",
author = "{MicroBooNE Collaboration} and Jaroslaw Nowak",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
day = "23",
doi = "10.2172/2397305",
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AB - MicroBooNE is an 85-ton active mass liquid-argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. MicroBooNE’s physics goals is the precision measurement of neutrino interactions on argon in the 1 GeV energy regime. The study of neutrino interactions producing a K + in the final-state can improve the background estimates for future proton-decay experiments looking for the p → K + ν channel on argon such as DUNE. In this document we present a simulation study for a selection of events with a K + that is produced in a charged-current neutrino interaction and decays into a µ+ and a νµ in the MicroBooNE detector. It will focus on how we use the particle identification techniques developed by MicroBooNE to achieve a sample with a 7% efficiency and 66.7% purity. This is the first step toward a charged-current kaon production cross section measurement in argon.

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