Detection of MeV-Scale Gammas from Pion/Muon Nuclear Capture With the LArIAT Liquid Argon TPC
- Fermilab
LArIAT (Liquid Argon In A Testbeam) is a LArTPC experiment at Fermilab which aims to understand and characterize interactions of neutrino final-state products with Argon. Tracks for pions and muons in LArTPCs are difficult to differentiate since both particles exhibit very similar ionization densities. We are exploring unique new particle discrimination capabilities for pions and muons by exploiting information from small, isolated ionization depositions, referred to as "blips", reconstructed near the endpoint of stopping tracks. These blips are formed by gammas emitted when an at-rest pion or muon captures on the argon nucleus. The relatively low beam energy provided by LArIAT makes it uniquely suited for performing this demonstration. In this talk, an overview of event candidate selection and reconstruct blips corresponding to our signal of interest, nuclear captures of pions and muons at rest inside LArIAT's TPC, and how we estimate and subtract backgrounds from these capture-at-rest blip signals.
- 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:
- LArIAT
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 2371001
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-SLIDES-24-0059-V; oai:inspirehep.net:2791904
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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