Current and Future Perspectives of MicroBooNE’s BSM Program
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Abstract
MicroBooNE was an 85 tonnes active mass Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) situated at Fermilab. It operated both on-axis in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) and off-axis in the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam and collected data from 2015 to 2020. With millimeter-scale spatial resolution and MeV-scale energy resolution, MicroBooNE is capable of searching for rare processes that may hint at Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics. In particular, MicroBooNE’s BSM program has been actively exploring physics related to the origin of neutrino masses and physics revealing the dark sector. This talk will cover the recently published searches for heavy neutral leptons and dark-trident processes; additionally, it will also explore the potential for searches for other BSM particles, including heavy QCD axions.
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Publication: MicroBooNE Collaboration - Search for heavy neutral leptons in electron-positron and neutral-pion final states with the MicroBooNE detector<br>MicroBooNE Collaboration - First search for dark-trident processes using the MicroBooNE detector
Presenters
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Keng Lin
Rutgers University
Authors
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Keng Lin
Rutgers University