Ponente
Dr.
Wesley Ketchum
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Descripción
MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that will detect neutrinos from Fermilab’s Booster Neutrino Beamline. From the large sample of neutrino interactions that will be collected, MicroBooNE will perform short-baseline neutrino oscillation searches, will resolve the source of the MiniBooNE “low-energy excess,” and will measure cross sections and properties of ~1 GeV neutrino interactions in liquid argon. Using LArTPC detection technology, MicroBooNE aims to see neutrino interactions in “high-definition,” with excellent interaction vertex resolution and particle identification, critical for achieving its physics goals. Due to the expected large number of neutrino interactions, and the even larger cosmic-ray backgrounds intrinsic to its surface location, it is essential that fully-automated software be capable of reconstructing MicroBooNE events. I will discuss the challenges of developing a fully-automated LArTPC reconstruction software package, and present the status of MicroBooNE’s reconstruction software.
Autor primario
Dr.
Wesley Ketchum
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
