Neutrino Induced Neutron Production with MicroBooNE

Neutrino oscillations are at the center of many of the open questions about the standard model today including charge parity violation and the mass hierarchy of the three known neutrinos. The neutrino oscillation parameters of interest are a function of the energy and propagation distance of the neutrino. Our ability to calculate the neutrino energy hinges on our ability to reconstruct the energy of all the particles that are created when a neutrino interacts with the detector medium. Neutrons are one of the particles produced in these scatters that are currently invisible to liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detectors and therefore lead to biases in energy estimation when they go undetected. MicroBooNE is a short baseline LArTPC detector on the Booster Neutrino Beam line at Fermilab. In addition to investigating the low energy excess observed by MiniBooNE, MicroBooNE serves as a software and hardware development project for future neutrino oscillation LArTPC experiments such as DUNE. MicroBooNE data can be used to develop neutron tagging techniques for LArTPC detectors alongside making the first neutrino-induced neutron production measurement on argon. This talk will present the current status of this measurement.