The science and technology of liquid argon detectors

WM Bonivento, F Terranova - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Liquid argon detectors are ubiquitous in particle, astroparticle, and applied physics. They
reached an unprecedented level of maturity thanks to more than 20 years of research and …

White paper on light sterile neutrino searches and related phenomenology

MA Acero, CA Argüelles, M Hostert, D Kalra… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This white paper provides a comprehensive review of our present understanding of
experimental neutrino anomalies that remain unresolved, charting the progress achieved …

Search for an excess of electron neutrino interactions in MicroBooNE using multiple final-state topologies

P Abratenko, R An, J Anthony, L Arellano, J Asaadi… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We present a measurement of ν e interactions from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam
using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber to address the nature of the …

First constraints on light sterile neutrino oscillations from combined appearance and disappearance searches with the MicroBooNE detector

P Abratenko, D Andrade Aldana, J Anthony, L Arellano… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
We present a search for eV-scale sterile neutrino oscillations in the MicroBooNE liquid
argon detector, simultaneously considering all possible appearance and disappearance …

MicroBooNE and the Interpretation of the MiniBooNE Low-Energy Excess

CA Argüelles, I Esteban, M Hostert, KJ Kelly, J Kopp… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A new generation of neutrino experiments is testing the 4.7 σ anomalous excess of
electronlike events observed in MiniBooNE. This is of huge importance for particle physics …

Search for an anomalous excess of inclusive charged-current interactions in the MicroBooNE experiment using Wire-Cell reconstruction

P Abratenko, R An, J Anthony, L Arellano, J Asaadi… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We report a search for an anomalous excess of inclusive charged-current (CC) ν e
interactions using the Wire-Cell event reconstruction package in the MicroBooNE …

New GENIE model tune for MicroBooNE

P Abratenko, R An, J Anthony, L Arellano, J Asaadi… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Obtaining a high-quality interaction model with associated uncertainties is essential for
neutrino experiments studying oscillations, nuclear scattering processes, or both. As a …

Neutrinoless double-beta decay: a roadmap for matching theory to experiment

V Cirigliano, Z Davoudi, W Dekens, J de Vries… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The observation of neutrino oscillations and hence non-zero neutrino masses provided a
milestone in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. But even though we now …

Heavy neutral leptons below the kaon mass at hodoscopic neutrino detectors

CA Argüelles, N Foppiani, M Hostert - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Heavy neutral leptons (N) below the kaon mass are severely constrained by cosmology and
lab-based searches for their decays in flight. If N interacts via an additional force, N→ ν e+ e …

Solutions to the MiniBooNE Anomaly from New Physics in Charged Meson Decays

B Dutta, D Kim, A Thompson, RT Thornton… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We point out that production of new bosons by charged meson decays can greatly enhance
the sensitivity of beam-focused accelerator-based experiments to new physics signals. This …