WIDG Seminar: Lauren Yates, MIT, “Progress toward the MicroBooNE Low-Energy Excess Search”

Event time: 
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
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Event description: 

The MicroBooNE experiment utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) located on-axis in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab to search for the excess of low energy electromagnetic-like events previously observed by the MiniBooNE experiment. I will present recent work from MicroBooNE in the context of our progress toward understanding the MiniBooNE low-energy excess, with a focus on our deep-learning-based method for identifying low-energy electron neutrino interactions and on our novel approach for evaluating systematic uncertainties related to detector modeling in a LArTPC.
Zoom link:https://yale.zoom.us/j/754440361

Open to: 
undergraduate