Measurement of the atmospheric muon rate with the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC. (12th April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Abratenko, P.; Alrashed, M.; An, R.; Anthony, J.; Asaadi, J.; Ashkenazi, A.; Balasubramanian, S.; Baller, B.; Barnes, C.; Barr, G.; Basque, V.; Bass, M.; Bathe-Peters, L.; Benevides Rodrigues, O.; Berkman, S.; Bhanderi, A.; Bhat, A.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bolton, T.; Camilleri, L.; Caratelli, D.; Caro Terrazas, I.; Castillo Fernandez, R.; Cavanna, F.; Cerati, G.; Chen, Y.; Church, E.; Cianci, D.; Conrad, J.M.; Convery, M.; Cooper-Troendle, L.; Crespo-Anadón, J.I.; Del Tutto, M.; Devitt, D.; Diurba, R.; Domine, L.; Dorrill, R.; Duffy, K.; Dytman, S.; Eberly, B.; Ereditato, A.; Escudero Sanchez, L.; Evans, J.J.; Fiorentini Aguirre, G.A.; Fitzpatrick, R.S.; Fleming, B.T.; Foppiani, N.; Franco, D.; Furmanski, A.P.; Garcia-Gamez, D.; Gardiner, S.; Ge, G.; Gollapinni, S.; Goodwin, O.; Gramellini, E.; Green, P.; Greenlee, H.; Gu, W.; Guenette, R.; Guzowski, P.; Hall, E.; Hamilton, P.; Hen, O.; Horton-Smith, G.A.; Hourlier, A.; Huang, E.-C.; Itay, R.; James, C.; Jan de Vries, J.; Ji, X.; Jiang, L.; Jo, J.H.; Johnson, R.A.; Jwa, Y.-J.; Kamp, N.; Karagiorgi, G.; Ketchum, W.; Kirby, B.; Kirby, M.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kreslo, I.; LaZur, R.; Lepetic, I.; Li, K.; Li, Y.; Littlejohn, B.R.; Lorca, D.; Louis, W.C.; Luo, X.; Marchionni, A.; Marcocci, S.; Mariani, C.; Marsden, D.; Marshall, J.; Martin-Albo, J.; Martinez Caicedo, D.A.; Mason, K.; Mastbaum, A.; McConkey, N.; Meddage, V.; Mettler, T.; Miller, K.; Mills, J.; Mistry, K.; Mogan, A.; Mohayai, T.; Moon, J.; Mooney, M.; Moor, A.F.; Moore, C.D.; Mousseau, J.; Murphy, M.; Naples, D.; Navrer-Agasson, A.; K. Neely, R.; Nienaber, P.; Nowak, J.; Palamara, O.; Paolone, V.; Papadopoulou, A.; Papavassiliou, V.; F. Pate, S.; Paudel, A.; Pavlovic, Z.; Piasetzky, E.; Ponce-Pinto, I.D.; Porzio, D.; Prince, S.; Qian, X.; L. Raaf, J.; Radeka, V.; Rafique, A.; Reggiani-Guzzo, M.; Ren, L.; Rochester, L.; Rodriguez Rondon, J.; Rogers, H.E.; Rosenberg, M.; Ross-Lonergan, M.; Russell, B.; Scanavini, G.; W. Schmitz, D.; Schukraft, A.; H. Shaevitz, M.; Sharankova, R.; Sinclair, J.; Smith, A.; L. Snider, E.; Soderberg, M.; Söldner-Rembold, S.; Soleti, S.R.; Spentzouris, P.; Spitz, J.; Stancari, M.; St. John, J.; Strauss, T.; Sutton, K.; Sword-Fehlberg, S.; Szelc, A.M.; Tagg, N.; Tang, W.; Terao, K.; Thorpe, C.; Toups, M.; Tsai, Y.-T.; Tufanli, S.; Uchida, M.A.; Usher, T.; Van De Pontseele, W.; Viren, B.; Weber, M.; Wei, H.; Williams, Z.; Wolbers, S.; Wongjirad, T.; Wospakrik, M.; Wu, W.; Yang, T.; Yarbrough, G.; Yates, L.E.; Zeller, G.P.; Zennamo, J.; Zhang, C.;
• Other Names: collab.
• Is Part Of: Journal of instrumentation. Volume 16:Number 4(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-04-12
• Subjects: Time projection chambers -- Time projection Chambers (TPC) -- Simulation methods and programs -- Muon spectrometers; Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Periodicals; 502.84
• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/16/04/P04004
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1748-0221

Abstract

Abstract: is a near-surface liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) located at Fermilab. We measure muons originating from cosmic interactions in the atmosphere using both the charge collection and light readout detectors. The data is compared with the cosmic-ray simulation. Agreement is found between the observation, simulation and previous results. Furthermore, the angular resolution of the reconstructed muons inside the TPC is studied in simulation.