Speaker
Mr
Hongyue Duyang
(University of South Carolina)
Description
Water Cherenkov (WC) and Liquid Argon (LAr) are two options under
consideration for the far detector (FD) of the LBNE experiment. To make a choice, one of the issues is the FD's sensitivity to the NuE-appearance which involves the detection efficiency of the signal, NuE-CC, and the background, NC events. The proposed WC sensitivity is largely based upon the Super-Kaminokande (SK) experience. However, the SK reconstruction algorithm is not optimized for the LBNE energies, especially in the 1.5--5 GeV region covering the first oscillation maximum.
At the current stage of LBNE project, we are using event scanning as a tool to understand the various background processes to electron neutrinos. The status of WC scan effort comprising 2000 NuE-CC and 10,000 NC simulated events will be presented.
Author
Mr
Hongyue Duyang
(University of South Carolina)
Co-authors
Mr
Andrew Svenson
(University of South Carolina)
Dr
Pooja Gupta
(UC Davis)
Dr
Sanjib Mishra
(University of South Carolina)
Mr
Tyler Alion
(University of South Carolina)
