Open AccessBooster Neutrino Flux Prediction at MicroBooNE
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1573216
Subject(s) - beamline , neutrino , physics , booster (rocketry) , fermilab , nuclear physics , miniboone , beryllium , neutrino oscillation , neutrino detector , particle physics , beam (structure) , sterile neutrino , optics , astronomy
The primary source of neutrinos for the MicroBooNE experiment is Fermilab’s Booster Neutrino Beamline. The beamline uses 8 GeV protons from the Booster accelerator steered onto a beryllium target. The secondaries are focused by a magnetic horn down a 50m long decay pipe. Decays of these secondaries give rise to a neutrino beam. We use the beamline simulation and techniques previously developed by the MiniBooNE collaboration to calculate the neutrino flux and estimate systematic uncertainties at the MicroBooNE detector location.
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