MicroBooNE and the Case of the Missing Extra Neutrinos

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• Kirsty Duffy (Oxford University)
• Wednesday 15 June 2022, 13:30-14:30
• Hybrid-Zoom SLT.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Jacob Kempster.

MicroBooNE is an 85-tonne active mass liquid argon time projection chamber at Fermilab. It has excellent calorimetric, spatial, and energy resolution, which makes it a powerful detector for neutrino and beyond the standard model (BSM) physics. One of the main physics goals of MicroBooNE is to investigate the nature of the excess of low-energy electromagnetic interactions observed by the MiniBooNE collaboration. In this seminar, I will present the latest results from a number of searches covering two leading hypotheses for the nature of the excess: an excess of single photons and an anomalous excess of electron neutrino events. I will provide details of these recent results and cross-checks to demonstrate the robustness of the analyses, and discuss both their interpretation and future studies in the wider context of the various BSM explanations of the MiniBooNE excess.

This talk is part of the Particle Physics Seminars series.

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