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

Journal Article · Thu Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2021 · Journal of Instrumentation

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/02/p02017· OSTI ID:1778077

Abratenko, P.; Alrashed, M.; An, R.; Anthony, J.; Asaadi, J.; Ashkenazi, A.; Balasubramanian, S.; Baller, B.; Barnes, C.; Barr, G.; Basque, V.; Bathe-Peters, L.; Berkman, S.; Bhanderi, A.; Bhat, A.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bolton, T.; Camilleri, L.; Caratelli, D. ; Terrazas, I. Caro; Fernandez, R. Castillo; Cavanna, F.; Cerati, G.; Chen, Y.; Church, E.; Cianci, D.; Cohen, E. O.; Conrad, J. M.; Convery, M.; Cooper-Troendle, L.; Crespo-Anadón, J. I.; Tutto, M. Del; Devitt, D.; Domine, L.; Duffy, K.; Dytman, S.; Eberly, B.; Ereditato, A.; Sanchez, L. Escudero; Evans, J. J.; Aguirre, G.A. Fiorentini; Fitzpatrick, R. S.; Fleming, B. T.; Foppiani, N.; Franco, D.; Furmanski, A. P.; Garcia-Gamez, D.; Gardiner, S.; Genty, V.; Goeldi, D.; Gollapinni, S.; Goodwin, O.; Gramellini, E.; Green, P.; Greenlee, H.; Gu, L.; Gu, W.; Guenette, R.; Guzowski, P.; Hall, E.; Hamilton, P.; Hen, O.; Hill, C.; Horton-Smith, G. A.; Hourlier, A.; Huang, E. -C.; Itay, R.; James, C.; de Vries, J. Jan; Ji, X.; Jiang, L.; Jo, J. H.; Johnson, R. A.; Jwa, Y. -J.; Karagiorgi, G.; Ketchum, W.; Kirby, B.; Kirby, M.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kreslo, I.; LaZur, R.; Lepetic, I.; Li, K.; Li, Y.; Lister, A.; Littlejohn, B. R.; Lockwitz, S.; Lorca, D.; Louis, W. C.; Luethi, M.; Lundberg, B.; Luo, X.; Marchionni, A.; Marcocci, S.; Mariani, C.; Marshall, J.; Martin-Albo, J.; Caicedo, D.A. Martinez; Mason, K.; Mastbaum, A.; McConkey, N.; Meddage, V.; Mettler, T.; Miller, K.; Mills, J.; Mistry, K.; Mogan, A.; Mohayai, T.; Moon, J.; Mooney, M.; Moore, C. D.; Mousseau, J.; Murphy, M.; Naples, D.; Neely, R. K.; Nienaber, P.; Nowak, J.; Palamara, O.; Pandey, V.; Paolone, V.; Papadopoulou, A.; Papavassiliou, V.; Pate, S. F.; Paudel, A.; Pavlovic, Z.; Piasetzky, E.; Ponce-Pinto, I. D.; Porzio, D.; Prince, S.; Pulliam, G.; Qian, X.; Raaf, J. L.; Radeka, V.; Rafique, A.; Ren, L.; Rochester, L.; Rondon, J. Rodriguez; Rogers, H. E.; Ross-Lonergan, M.; Rohr, C. von; Russell, B.; Scanavini, G.; Schmitz, D. W.; Schukraft, A.; Seligman, W.; Shaevitz, M. H.; Sharankova, R.; Sinclair, J.; Smith, A.; Snider, E. L.; Soderberg, M.; Söldner-Rembold, S.; Soleti, S. R.; Spentzouris, P.; Spitz, J.; Stancari, M.; John, J. St.; Strauss, T.; Sutton, K.; Sword-Fehlberg, S.; Szelc, A. M.; Tagg, N.; Tang, W.; Terao, K.; Thornton, R. T.; Toups, M.; Tsai, Y. -T.; Tufanli, S.; Uchida, M. A.; Usher, T.; Pontseele, W. De; de Water, R.G. Van; Viren, B.; Weber, M.; Wei, H.; Wickremasinghe, D. A.; Williams, Z.; Wolbers, S.; Wongjirad, T.; Wospakrik, M.; Wu, W.; Yang, T.; Yarbrough, G.; Yates, L. E.; Zeller, G. P.; Zennamo, J.; Zhang, C.

In this work, we describe algorithms developed to isolate and accurately reconstruct two-track events that are contained within the MicroBooNE detector. This method is optimized to reconstruct two tracks of lengths longer than 5cm. This code has applications to searches for neutrino oscillations and measurements of cross sections using quasi-elastic-like charged current events. The algorithms we discuss will be applicable to all detectors running in Fermilab's Short Baseline Neutrino program (SBN), and to any future liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiment with beam energies ~ 1 GeV. The algorithms are publicly available on a GITHUB repository. This reconstruction offers a complementary and independent alternative to the Pandora reconstruction package currently in use in LArTPC experiments, and provides similar reconstruction performance for two-track events.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• Contributing Organization: MicroBooNE Collaboration; MicroBooNE
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515; AC02-07CH11359; SC0007881; SC0007859
• OSTI ID: 1778077
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1631137; OSTI ID: 1784025; OSTI ID: 1867834
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-20-073-ND; arXiv:2002.09375; TRN: US2209532
• Journal Information: Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 16, Issue 02; ISSN 1748-0221
• Publisher: Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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