An Inclusive Single Photon Analysis in MicroBooNE

One of the main goals for the MicroBooNE detector at Fermilab is to investigate the “low energy excess” (LEE) of electromagnetic events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment. In MicroBooNE’s first round of LEE results, no excess was seen in events with a single electron-like electromagnetic shower in the final state. Unlike these electron LEE analyses, which cover a wide range of final states and possible processes, the only currently released single photon-like LEE result focuses on NC ?? to one photon decays, with either exactly one or zero protons in the final state, which also shows no excess. Given these results, a more general analysis of photon-like events is needed to complete a full investigation of the MiniBooNE anomaly. This talk presents the first look at a model-independent analysis searching for a MiniBooNE LEE-like signal in the inclusive single photon channel with MicroBooNE. The signal events are defined by a final state topology with one photon shower, no primary electron showers, and anything else. The performance of the signal selection, which uses Wire Cell event reconstruction, will be shown.