Mettler, Thomas (2021). Detection and Measurement of Neutrino Interaction in a Cosmic Contaminated Environment. (Thesis). Universität Bern, Bern
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Abstract
Thanks to the good tracking and calorimetric capabilities of a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC), the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE) provides precise measurements of ν-argon interactions at intermediate energies between O(100MeV) and O(2 GeV). These are needed to improve our understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions and to mitigate the uncertainties in the Monte Carlo simulation which needs to predict the signals of future experiments like Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) with great precision. A drawback of the LArTPC technology is the rather long charge readout in the of O(1 ms). This means that a large amount of cosmic-induced particles will overlap the readout window for detectors placed on the earth’s surface. To mitigate this problem in MicroBooNE, a Cosmic Ray Tagger (CRT) is built around the LArTPC. This work discusses the implementation of the CRT and shows its implication for a νμ Charged Current (CC) inclusive analysis. With a timing capability in the O(2 ns) and a position resolution better than 2 cm, the CRT can reject cosmic background interactions without confinging the phase space of the selected neutrino interactions. On a newly developed νμ CC inclusive analysis using MicroBooNE data taken between December 2017 and Summer 2018, the cosmic contribution could be halved while maintaining the efficiency of 55.6% at the same level with respect to previous analysis. This leads to a higher signal purity of 72.0% and generally reduced uncertainties. The total flux-integrated inclusive cross section evaluated in this analysis is σ = 0.770 ± 0.005 (stat) ± 0.113 (sys) · 10−38 cm2. A double differential result in bins of muon momentum and the polar angle with respect to the beam direction is presented as a forward-folded event rate to avoid model dependence to a large extend. A comparison of the result to different neutrino generators commonly used results in χ2-values larger than 10 per degrees of freedom for all models used here indicating a general discrepancy between models and data for neutrino-argon interactions. This work shows an effective way to further remove cosmic background interactions for a LArTPC on the earth surface using the CRT and presents a double differential cross-section analysis for further improvement of our understanding of ν-argon interactions.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Dissertation Type: | Single |
| Date of Defense: | 17 May 2021 |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Institute / Center: | 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) 10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) |
| Depositing User: | Hammer Igor |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2021 09:56 |
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2022 00:30 |
| URI: | https://boristheses.unibe.ch/id/eprint/2749 |
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