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Search for an anomalous excess of charged-current νe interactions without pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE experiment
- Abstract:
- This article presents a measurement of νe interactions without pions in the final state using the MicroBooNE experiment and an investigation into the excess of low-energy electromagnetic events observed by the MiniBooNE collaboration. The measurement is performed in exclusive channels with (1eNp0π) and without (1e0p0π) visible final-state protons using 6.86×1020 protons on target of data collected from the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. Events are reconstructed with the Pandora pattern recognition toolkit and selected using additional topological information from the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber. Using a goodness-of-fit test the data are found to be consistent with the predicted number of events with nominal flux and interaction models with a p-value of 0.098 in the two channels combined. A model based on the low-energy excess observed in MiniBooNE is introduced to quantify the strength of a possible νe excess. The analysis suggests that, if an excess is present, it is not consistent with a scaling of the νe contribution to the flux as predicted by the signal model used in the analysis. Combined, the 1eNp0π and 1e0p0π channels do not give a conclusive indication about the tested model, but separately they both disfavor the lowenergy excess model at >90% CL. The observation in the most sensitive 1eNp0π channel is below the prediction and consistent with no excess. In the less sensitive 1e0p0π channel the observation at low energy is above the prediction, while overall there is agreement over the full energy spectrum.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.112004
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- American Physical Society
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- Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 105
- Article number:
- 112004
- Publication date:
- 2022-06-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-02-18
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1550-2368
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1550-7998
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English
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1244043
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pubs:1244043
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2022-03-15
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