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Nuclear interaction measurements for the liquid argon neutrino program

ORAL · Invited

Abstract

Studying neutrino-nucleus interactions is crucial in addressing long-standing fundamental questions in neutrino physics. Multiple current and future accelerator based neutrino experiments use liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) as the detection technology. Therefore, a precise understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions in argon is critical to optimizing the physics program of future experiments, such as DUNE. The Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab consists of three LArTPC detectors: MicroBooNE, SBND and ICARUS. MicroBooNE has produced an extensive suite of neutrino cross-section results studying a wide variety of interaction processes. SBND and ICARUS are currently collecting physics data at Fermilab. This talk will provide an overview of the most recent and forthcoming results on neutrino-argon interactions. These include investigations of multi-differential inclusive channels with and without detected protons, exclusive pionless topologies, analyses with pion final states, rare processes, and novel neutron detection techniques. These measurements provide invaluable datasets for constraining backgrounds and improving the modeling of neutrino scattering for the LArTPC neutrino physics programs, including DUNE.

Presenters

  • Meghna Bhattacharya

    Fermilab

Authors

  • Meghna Bhattacharya

    Fermilab