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Description
The MicroBooNE experiment employs an 85-ton active mass liquid argon time projection chamber to detect neutrinos from both the on-axis Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) and off-axis Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam. One of the main goals of MicroBooNE is to investigate MiniBooNE low energy excess/anomaly. In this talk, we will present the recent results from MicroBooNE’s low energy excess (LEE) search based on a search of single photons in MicroBooNE and a series of three independent analyses targeting different final-state topologies which look for an anomalous excess of electron neutrino events. We will also discuss the interpretation of these results in the context of the 3+1 oscillation framework under a light sterile neutrino model, as well as ongoing efforts for other BSM explanations of the MiniBooNE anomaly. Additionally, we will examine the impact of a degeneracy resulting from the cancellation of $\nu_e$ appearance and disappearance, and demonstrate that combining data from the BNB and NuMI beams, which have substantially different $\nu_e/\nu_\mu$ ratios, can break this degeneracy.
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Sergey Martynenko , Research Associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
https://www.bnl.gov/science/
| Is this abstract from experiment? | Yes |
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| Name of experiment and experimental site | MicroBooNE |
| Is the speaker for that presentation defined? | Yes |
| Internet talk | No |
