43rd International Conference on High Energy Physics

First Measurement of Charged Current Muon Neutrino Induced Kaon Production on Argon

Not scheduled

20m

Natal, Brazil

Poster Neutrino Physics

Speaker

David Martinez Caicedo (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

Description

MicroBooNE is an 85-tonne active mass liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab. One of the key physics goals is the precise measurement of neutrino interactions on argon in the 1 GeV energy regime. The study of strange and heavier meson production in neutrino interactions, in particular final states containing K⁺, will help to improve the background estimates for future nucleon decay searches in experiments such as DUNE, provide valuable input for improving neutrino generator models, and will allow the development of techniques to enhance the particle identification capabilities of LArTPCs. In this poster, we present the first-ever cross-section measurements of charged current muon neutrino-induced kaon production on argon at MicroBooNE.