Scintillation Light Triggering Efficiency in MicroBooNE
- Manchester U.
The MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) has been running since 2015 as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab and is designed to contribute to address the elusive eV sterile neutrino anomaly. MicroBooNE records both the ionisation charge and scintillation light produced inside the TPC. The latter is collected through PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMTs) and used for accurate timing and triggering. Having an accurate knowledge of the triggering efficiency at low energies is a key element for the success of MicroBooNE analyses, and the methods developed to obtain can be used by future LArTPCs, especially in the SBN program. For this reason MicroBooNE is developing a data driven method to estimate the trigger efficiency of scintillation light. The goal of this poster is to present a preliminary analysis of calculating this efficiency in MicroBooNE using cosmic ray muons. Results of this analysis will be crucial for many analyses that aim to me asure low energy interactions, and inform triggering strategies in LArTPCs in the SBN and future DUNE program.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
- Contributing Organization:
- MicroBooNE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1525880
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-POSTER-19-006-ND; 1739518
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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