MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) at Fermilab in Batavia, IL. MicroBooNE's two main physics goals are to investigate the MiniBooNE low-energy excess and neutrino-argon cross sections.[1] It will be part of a series of neutrino detectors along with the new Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) and moved ICARUS detector.

MicroBooNE was filled with argon in July 2015 and began data taking.[2] The collaboration announced that they had found evidence of the experiment's first neutrino interactions in November 2015.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "MicroBooNE Physics". MicroBooNE website. Fermilab. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  2. ↑ "The short-baseline detectives and the mysterious case of the sterile neutrino". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  3. ↑ "MicroBooNE sees first accelerator-born neutrinos". Symmetry. Retrieved 2016-05-31.

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