Inclusive Search for Anomalous Single-Photon Production in MicroBooNE
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| author | MicroBooNE collaboration Abratenko, P. Aldana, D. Andrade Arellano, L. Asaadi, J. Ashkenazi, A. Balasubramanian, S. Baller, B. Barnard, A. Barr, G. Barrow, D. Barrow, J. Basque, V. Bateman, J. Rodrigues, O. Benevides Berkman, S. Bhat, A. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, M. Blake, A. Bogart, B. Bolton, T. Brunetti, M. B. Camilleri, L. Caratelli, D. Cavanna, F. Cerati, G. Chappell, A. Chen, Y. Conrad, J. M. Convery, M. Cooper-Troendle, L. Crespo-Anadon, J. I. Cross, R. Del Tutto, M. Dennis, S. R. Detje, P. Diurba, R. Djurcic, Z. Duffy, K. Dytman, S. Eberly, B. Englezos, P. Ereditato, A. Evans, J. J. Fang, C. Fleming, B. T. Foreman, W. Franco, D. Furmanski, A. P. Gao, F. Garcia-Gamez, D. Gardiner, S. Ge, G. Gollapinni, S. Gramellini, E. Green, P. Greenlee, H. Gu, L. Gu, W. Guenette, R. Guzowski, P. Hagaman, L. Handley, M. D. Hen, O. Hilgenberg, C. Horton-Smith, G. A. Hussain, A. Irwin, B. Ismail, M. S. James, C. Ji, X. Jo, J. H. Johnson, R. A. Kalra, D. Karagiorgi, G. Ketchum, W. Kirby, M. Kobilarcik, T. Lane, N. Li, J. -Y. Li, Y. Lin, K. Littlejohn, B. R. Liu, L. Louis, W. C. Luo, X. Mahmud, T. Mariani, C. Marsden, D. Marshall, J. Martinez, N. Caicedo, D. A. Martinez Martynenko, S. Mastbaum, A. Mawby, I. McConkey, N. Mellet, L. Mendez, J. Micallef, J. Mistry, K. Mohayai, T. Mogan, A. Mooney, M. Moor, A. F. Moore, C. D. Lepin, L. Mora Moudgalya, M. M. Babu, S. Mulleria Naples, D. Navrer-Agasson, A. Nayak, N. Nebot-Guinot, M. Nguyen, C. Nowak, J. Oza, N. Palamara, O. Pallat, N. Paolone, V. Papadopoulou, A. Papavassiliou, V. Parkinson, H. Pate, S. F. Patel, N. Pavlovic, Z. Piasetzky, E. Pletcher, K. Pophale, I. Qian, X. Raaf, J. L. Radeka, V. Rafique, A. Reggiani-Guzzo, M. Rondon, J. Rodriguez Rosenberg, M. Ross-Lonergan, M. Safa, I. Schmitz, D. W. Schukraft, A. Seligman, W. Shaevitz, M. H. Sharankova, R. Shi, J. Snider, E. L. Soderberg, M. Soldner-Rembold, S. Spitz, J. Stancari, M. John, J. St. Strauss, T. Szelc, A. M. Taniuchi, N. Terao, K. Thorpe, C. Torbunov, D. Totani, D. Toups, M. Trettin, A. Tsai, Y. -T. Tyler, J. Uchida, M. A. Usher, T. Viren, B. Wang, J. Weber, M. Wei, H. White, A. J. Wolbers, S. Wongjirad, T. Wospakrik, M. Wresilo, K. Wu, W. Yandel, E. Yang, T. Yates, L. E. Yu, H. W. Zeller, G. P. Zennamo, J. Zhang, C. |
| author_facet | MicroBooNE collaboration Abratenko, P. Aldana, D. Andrade Arellano, L. Asaadi, J. Ashkenazi, A. Balasubramanian, S. Baller, B. Barnard, A. Barr, G. Barrow, D. Barrow, J. Basque, V. Bateman, J. Rodrigues, O. Benevides Berkman, S. Bhat, A. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, M. Blake, A. Bogart, B. Bolton, T. Brunetti, M. B. Camilleri, L. Caratelli, D. Cavanna, F. Cerati, G. Chappell, A. Chen, Y. Conrad, J. M. Convery, M. Cooper-Troendle, L. Crespo-Anadon, J. I. Cross, R. Del Tutto, M. Dennis, S. R. Detje, P. Diurba, R. Djurcic, Z. Duffy, K. Dytman, S. Eberly, B. Englezos, P. Ereditato, A. Evans, J. J. Fang, C. Fleming, B. T. Foreman, W. Franco, D. Furmanski, A. P. Gao, F. Garcia-Gamez, D. Gardiner, S. Ge, G. Gollapinni, S. Gramellini, E. Green, P. Greenlee, H. Gu, L. Gu, W. Guenette, R. Guzowski, P. Hagaman, L. Handley, M. D. Hen, O. Hilgenberg, C. Horton-Smith, G. A. Hussain, A. Irwin, B. Ismail, M. S. James, C. Ji, X. Jo, J. H. Johnson, R. A. Kalra, D. Karagiorgi, G. Ketchum, W. Kirby, M. Kobilarcik, T. Lane, N. Li, J. -Y. Li, Y. Lin, K. Littlejohn, B. R. Liu, L. Louis, W. C. Luo, X. Mahmud, T. Mariani, C. Marsden, D. Marshall, J. Martinez, N. Caicedo, D. A. Martinez Martynenko, S. Mastbaum, A. Mawby, I. McConkey, N. Mellet, L. Mendez, J. Micallef, J. Mistry, K. Mohayai, T. Mogan, A. Mooney, M. Moor, A. F. Moore, C. D. Lepin, L. Mora Moudgalya, M. M. Babu, S. Mulleria Naples, D. Navrer-Agasson, A. Nayak, N. Nebot-Guinot, M. Nguyen, C. Nowak, J. Oza, N. Palamara, O. Pallat, N. Paolone, V. Papadopoulou, A. Papavassiliou, V. Parkinson, H. Pate, S. F. Patel, N. Pavlovic, Z. Piasetzky, E. Pletcher, K. Pophale, I. Qian, X. Raaf, J. L. Radeka, V. Rafique, A. Reggiani-Guzzo, M. Rondon, J. Rodriguez Rosenberg, M. Ross-Lonergan, M. Safa, I. Schmitz, D. W. Schukraft, A. Seligman, W. Shaevitz, M. H. Sharankova, R. Shi, J. Snider, E. L. Soderberg, M. Soldner-Rembold, S. Spitz, J. Stancari, M. John, J. St. Strauss, T. Szelc, A. M. Taniuchi, N. Terao, K. Thorpe, C. Torbunov, D. Totani, D. Toups, M. Trettin, A. Tsai, Y. -T. Tyler, J. Uchida, M. A. Usher, T. Viren, B. Wang, J. Weber, M. Wei, H. White, A. J. Wolbers, S. Wongjirad, T. Wospakrik, M. Wresilo, K. Wu, W. Yandel, E. Yang, T. Yates, L. E. Yu, H. W. Zeller, G. P. Zennamo, J. Zhang, C. |
| contents | We present an inclusive search for anomalous production of single-photon events from neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE experiment. The search and its signal definition are motivated by the previous observation of a low-energy excess of electromagnetic shower events from the MiniBooNE experiment. We use the Wire-Cell reconstruction framework to select a sample of inclusive single-photon final-state interactions with a final efficiency and purity of 7.0% and 40.2%, respectively. We leverage simultaneous measurements of sidebands of charged current $ν_μ$ interactions and neutral current interactions producing $π^{0}$ mesons to constrain signal and background predictions and reduce uncertainties. We perform a blind analysis using a dataset collected from February 2016 to July 2018, corresponding to an exposure of $6.34\times10^{20}$ protons on target from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. In the full signal region, we observe agreement between the data and the prediction, with a goodness-of-fit $p$-value of 0.11. We then isolate a sub-sample of these events containing no visible protons, and observe $93\pm22\text{(stat.)}\pm35\text{(syst.)}$ data events above prediction, corresponding to just above $2σ$ local significance, concentrated at shower energies below 600 MeV. |
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| spellingShingle | Inclusive Search for Anomalous Single-Photon Production in MicroBooNE MicroBooNE collaboration Abratenko, P. Aldana, D. Andrade Arellano, L. Asaadi, J. Ashkenazi, A. Balasubramanian, S. Baller, B. Barnard, A. Barr, G. Barrow, D. Barrow, J. Basque, V. Bateman, J. Rodrigues, O. Benevides Berkman, S. Bhat, A. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, M. Blake, A. Bogart, B. Bolton, T. Brunetti, M. B. Camilleri, L. Caratelli, D. Cavanna, F. Cerati, G. Chappell, A. Chen, Y. Conrad, J. M. Convery, M. Cooper-Troendle, L. Crespo-Anadon, J. I. Cross, R. Del Tutto, M. Dennis, S. R. Detje, P. Diurba, R. Djurcic, Z. Duffy, K. Dytman, S. Eberly, B. Englezos, P. Ereditato, A. Evans, J. J. Fang, C. Fleming, B. T. Foreman, W. Franco, D. Furmanski, A. P. Gao, F. Garcia-Gamez, D. Gardiner, S. Ge, G. Gollapinni, S. Gramellini, E. Green, P. Greenlee, H. Gu, L. Gu, W. Guenette, R. Guzowski, P. Hagaman, L. Handley, M. D. Hen, O. Hilgenberg, C. Horton-Smith, G. A. Hussain, A. Irwin, B. Ismail, M. S. James, C. Ji, X. Jo, J. H. Johnson, R. A. Kalra, D. Karagiorgi, G. Ketchum, W. Kirby, M. Kobilarcik, T. Lane, N. Li, J. -Y. Li, Y. Lin, K. Littlejohn, B. R. Liu, L. Louis, W. C. Luo, X. Mahmud, T. Mariani, C. Marsden, D. Marshall, J. Martinez, N. Caicedo, D. A. Martinez Martynenko, S. Mastbaum, A. Mawby, I. McConkey, N. Mellet, L. Mendez, J. Micallef, J. Mistry, K. Mohayai, T. Mogan, A. Mooney, M. Moor, A. F. Moore, C. D. Lepin, L. Mora Moudgalya, M. M. Babu, S. Mulleria Naples, D. Navrer-Agasson, A. Nayak, N. Nebot-Guinot, M. Nguyen, C. Nowak, J. Oza, N. Palamara, O. Pallat, N. Paolone, V. Papadopoulou, A. Papavassiliou, V. Parkinson, H. Pate, S. F. Patel, N. Pavlovic, Z. Piasetzky, E. Pletcher, K. Pophale, I. Qian, X. Raaf, J. L. Radeka, V. Rafique, A. Reggiani-Guzzo, M. Rondon, J. Rodriguez Rosenberg, M. Ross-Lonergan, M. Safa, I. Schmitz, D. W. Schukraft, A. Seligman, W. Shaevitz, M. H. Sharankova, R. Shi, J. Snider, E. L. Soderberg, M. Soldner-Rembold, S. Spitz, J. Stancari, M. John, J. St. Strauss, T. Szelc, A. M. Taniuchi, N. Terao, K. Thorpe, C. Torbunov, D. Totani, D. Toups, M. Trettin, A. Tsai, Y. -T. Tyler, J. Uchida, M. A. Usher, T. Viren, B. Wang, J. Weber, M. Wei, H. White, A. J. Wolbers, S. Wongjirad, T. Wospakrik, M. Wresilo, K. Wu, W. Yandel, E. Yang, T. Yates, L. E. Yu, H. W. Zeller, G. P. Zennamo, J. Zhang, C. High Energy Physics - Experiment We present an inclusive search for anomalous production of single-photon events from neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE experiment. The search and its signal definition are motivated by the previous observation of a low-energy excess of electromagnetic shower events from the MiniBooNE experiment. We use the Wire-Cell reconstruction framework to select a sample of inclusive single-photon final-state interactions with a final efficiency and purity of 7.0% and 40.2%, respectively. We leverage simultaneous measurements of sidebands of charged current $ν_μ$ interactions and neutral current interactions producing $π^{0}$ mesons to constrain signal and background predictions and reduce uncertainties. We perform a blind analysis using a dataset collected from February 2016 to July 2018, corresponding to an exposure of $6.34\times10^{20}$ protons on target from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. In the full signal region, we observe agreement between the data and the prediction, with a goodness-of-fit $p$-value of 0.11. We then isolate a sub-sample of these events containing no visible protons, and observe $93\pm22\text{(stat.)}\pm35\text{(syst.)}$ data events above prediction, corresponding to just above $2σ$ local significance, concentrated at shower energies below 600 MeV. |
| title | Inclusive Search for Anomalous Single-Photon Production in MicroBooNE |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06064 |