Studying neutrinos with liquid argon TPCs through their MeV to GeV EM signatures

by David Caratelli (Fermilab )

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 12:30 → 13:30 America/Los_Angeles

48/2-224 - Madrone (SLAC)

Thanks to advances in detector technology and the advent of powerful neutrino sources, neutrino physics in the past decade has moved to an era of precision measurements. This enables us to shed light on their curious properties, and try to address fundamental questions on the fabric of the universe. Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detectors are set to play an important role in neutrino physics with upcoming short- and long-baseline accelerator experiments. This talk will focus on how the accurate measurement of electromagnetic (EM) interactions produced in liquid argon is key to a broad neutrino physics program, describing in detail the detector physics, reconstruction, and calibration of EM activity. Measurements from MicroBooNE, an 80 ton LArTPC collecting neutrino data at Fermilab, will be presented.