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Title: Cosmic muon induced EM showers in NO$$\nu$$A detector

Abstract

Here, the NuMI Off-Axis ve Appearance (NOvA) experiment is a ne appearance neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. It identifies the ne signal from the electromagnetic (EM) showers induced by the electrons in the final state of neutrino interactions. Cosmic muon induced EM showers, dominated by bremsstrahlung, are abundant in NOvA far detector. We use the Cosmic Muon- Removal technique to get pure EM shower sample from bremsstrahlung muons in data. We also use Cosmic muon decay in flight EM showers which are highly pure EM showers.The large Cosmic-EM sample can be used, as data driven method, to characterize the EM shower signature and provides valuable checks of the simulation, reconstruction, particle identification algorithm, and calibration across the NOvA detector.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [1]
  1. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (India)
  2. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
  3. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1353464
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-16-015-ND
Journal ID: ISSN 1824-8039; 1596810
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
PoS Proceedings of Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: ICHEP2016; Conference: 38. International Conference on High Energy Physics, Chicago (United States), 3-10 Aug 2016; Journal ID: ISSN 1824-8039
Publisher:
SISSA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Yadav, Nitin, Duyang, Hongyue, Shanahan, Peter, Mishra, Sanjib, and Bhuyan, Bipul. Cosmic muon induced EM showers in NO$\nu$A detector. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Yadav, Nitin, Duyang, Hongyue, Shanahan, Peter, Mishra, Sanjib, & Bhuyan, Bipul. Cosmic muon induced EM showers in NO$\nu$A detector. United States.
Yadav, Nitin, Duyang, Hongyue, Shanahan, Peter, Mishra, Sanjib, and Bhuyan, Bipul. 2016. "Cosmic muon induced EM showers in NO$\nu$A detector". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1353464.
@article{osti_1353464,
title = {Cosmic muon induced EM showers in NO$\nu$A detector},
author = {Yadav, Nitin and Duyang, Hongyue and Shanahan, Peter and Mishra, Sanjib and Bhuyan, Bipul},
abstractNote = {Here, the NuMI Off-Axis ve Appearance (NOvA) experiment is a ne appearance neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. It identifies the ne signal from the electromagnetic (EM) showers induced by the electrons in the final state of neutrino interactions. Cosmic muon induced EM showers, dominated by bremsstrahlung, are abundant in NOvA far detector. We use the Cosmic Muon- Removal technique to get pure EM shower sample from bremsstrahlung muons in data. We also use Cosmic muon decay in flight EM showers which are highly pure EM showers.The large Cosmic-EM sample can be used, as data driven method, to characterize the EM shower signature and provides valuable checks of the simulation, reconstruction, particle identification algorithm, and calibration across the NOvA detector.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1353464}, journal = {PoS Proceedings of Science},
issn = {1824-8039},
number = ,
volume = ICHEP2016,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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