CAREER: A Keystone for Precision Neutrino Physics: Multi-Target Neutrino-Nucleus Cross Section Measurements with the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino Program

职业：精密中微子物理的基石：利用费米实验室短基线中微子计划进行多目标中微子核横截面测量

• 批准号: 2047665
• 负责人: Andrew Mastbaum
• 金额: $ 110万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-15 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2047665&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Keystone; Precision; Neutrino; Physics

One of the major intellectual achievements of the 20th century was the development of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. This model succeeded in classifying all of the elementary particles known at the time into a hierarchy of groups having similar quantum properties. However, the Standard Model as it currently exists leaves open many questions about the universe, including such fundamental questions as to why the Higgs mass has the value it has and why there is no antimatter in the universe. One of the primary areas to search for answers to these and other open questions about the universe is to focus on a study of the properties of neutrinos and to use what we know and can learn about neutrinos as probes of science beyond the Standard Model. We now know there are three kinds of neutrinos that are distinguishable through the different interactions that they undergo whenever there is an interaction. We also know that neutrinos do have a mass and because they do, they can actually change from one type to another. Detailed measurements of these changes, along with other current neutrino experiments, form one of the most promising ways to probe for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Such measurements lie at the heart of this award which will study neutrino-nucleus interactions in order to deeply understand how neutrinos oscillate from one type to another. This work will be crucial to the upcoming neutrino experiment, DUNE, at the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), one of the top-priority experiments in High Energy Physics. This research group at Rutgers University will also broaden diversity in physics by using their data analysis work to promote engagement in physics among African-American New Jersey high school students. There is currently a large interest in experimental particle physics in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPC) spurred in part by the new DUNE project at FNAL and in neutrino physics in general. Another technology of interest to DUNE is water-based liquid scintillator detectors. This award will develop both of these technologies and study neutrino interactions with both liquid argon and liquid scintillator. The data will be obtained using the Booster Neutrino Beam at FNAL and the detectors of the ANNIE and SBND experiments. A simultaneous measurement of neutrino interactions with water and argon targets using the same high-intensity neutrino beam will precisely relate these two nuclei, enable stringent constraints on models, deepen our understanding of crucial energy losses to neutrons in liquid argon detectors, and enable scientists to quantitatively re-tune models. These advances will enable improved cross-experiment comparisons that enhance our global picture, and broadly extend the physics capabilities of liquid argon based detectors. In particular, the proposed work represents a unique window of opportunity to enable future joint analysis of DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande data.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

世纪的主要学术成就之一是粒子物理学标准模型（SM）的发展。该模型成功地将当时已知的所有基本粒子分类为具有相似量子特性的组的层次结构。然而，目前存在的标准模型留下了许多关于宇宙的问题，包括为什么希格斯质量具有它的价值以及为什么宇宙中没有反物质等基本问题。寻找这些和其他关于宇宙的开放性问题的答案的主要领域之一是专注于中微子性质的研究，并利用我们所知道的和可以了解的中微子作为标准模型之外的科学探针。我们现在知道，有三种中微子，它们可以通过不同的相互作用来区分，只要有相互作用，它们就会发生。我们还知道中微子确实有质量，因为它们有质量，它们实际上可以从一种类型变成另一种类型。对这些变化的详细测量，沿着目前的其他中微子实验，构成了探索标准模型之外的新物理学的最有前途的方法之一。这种测量是该奖项的核心，该奖项将研究中微子-核相互作用，以深入了解中微子如何从一种类型振荡到另一种类型。这项工作对于即将在美国费米国家加速器实验室（FNAL）进行的中微子实验DUNE至关重要，这是高能物理学中最优先的实验之一。罗格斯大学的这个研究小组还将利用他们的数据分析工作来扩大物理学的多样性，以促进非裔美国新泽西高中生对物理学的参与。目前，在FNAL新的DUNE项目的推动下，人们对液氩时间投影室（LArTPC）中的实验粒子物理学和中微子物理学产生了很大的兴趣。DUNE感兴趣的另一项技术是水基液体闪烁体探测器。该奖项将开发这两种技术，并研究中微子与液氩和液体闪烁体的相互作用。这些数据将使用FNAL的助推中微子束和ANNIE和SBND实验的探测器获得。使用相同的高强度中微子束同时测量中微子与水和氩靶的相互作用，将精确地将这两个原子核联系起来，对模型进行严格的约束，加深我们对液态氩探测器中中子的关键能量损失的理解，并使科学家能够定量地重新调整模型。这些进展将使改进的跨实验比较，增强我们的全球图片，并广泛扩展基于液态氩的探测器的物理能力。特别是，拟议的工作代表了一个独特的机会窗口，使未来的联合分析DUNE和Hyper-Kamiokande数据。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons and Higgs portal scalars decaying in the MicroBooNE detector

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.092006
• 发表时间: 2022-07
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: M. C. P. Abratenko;J. Anthony;L. Arellano;J. Asaadi;A. Ashkenazi;S. Balasubramanian;B. Baller;C. Barnes;G. Barr;J. Barrow;V. Basque;L. Bathe-Peters;O. Rodrigues;S. Berkman;A. Bhanderi;M. Bhattacharya;M. Bishai;A. Blake;B. Bogart;T. Bolton;J. Book;L. Camilleri;D. Caratelli;I. C. Terrazas;F. Cavanna;G. Cerati;Y. Chen;J. Conrad;M. Convery;L. Cooper-Troendle;J. I. Crespo-Anadón;M. Tutto;S. Dennis;P. Detje;A. Devitt;R. Diurba;R. Dorrill;K. Duffy;S. Dytman;B. Eberly;A. Ereditato;J. Evans;R. Fine;O. G. Finnerud;B. Fleming;N. Foppiani;W. Foreman;D. Franco;A. Furmanski;D. Garcia-Gamez;S. Gardiner;G. Ge;S. Gollapinni;O. Goodwin;E. Gramellini;P. Green;H. Greenlee;W. Gu;R. Guenette;P. Guzowski;L. Hagaman;O. Hen;R. Hicks;C. Hilgenberg;G. Horton-Smith;R. Itay;C. James;X. Ji;L. Jiang;J. Jo;R. Johnson;Y. Jwa;D. Kalra;N. Kamp;N. Kaneshige;G. Karagiorgi;W. Ketchum;M. Kirby;T. Kobilarcik;I. Kreslo;M. Leibovitch;I. Lepetic;J.-Y. Li;K. Li;Y. Li;K. Lin;B. Littlejohn;W. Louis;X. Luo;K. Manivannan;C. Mariani;D. Marsden;J. Marshall;D. A. Caicedo;K. Mason;A. Mastbaum;N. McConkey;V. Meddage;K. Miller;J. Mills;K. Mistry;T. Mohayai;A. Mogan;M. Mooney;A. Moor;C. Moore;L. Lepin;J. Mousseau;S. Babu;D. Naples;A. Navrer-Agasson;N. Nayak;M. Nebot-Guinot;D. Newmark;J. Nowak;M. Nunes;N. Oza;O. Palamara;N. Pallat;V. Paolone;A. Papadopoulou;Vicky Papavassiliou;H. Parkinson;S. Pate;N. Patel;Z. Pavlovic;E. Piasetzky;I. Ponce-Pinto;S. Prince;X. Qian;J. Raaf;V. Radeka;A. Rafique;M. Reggiani-Guzzo;L. Ren;L. Rice;L. Rochester;J. Rondon;M. Rosenberg;M. Ross-Lonergan;C. Rohr;G. Scanavini;D. Schmitz;A. Schukraft;W. Seligman;M. Shaevitz;R. Sharankova;J. Shi;A. Smith;E. Snider;M. Soderberg;S. Soldner-Rembold;J. Spitz;M. Stancari;J. John;T. Strauss;S. Sword-Fehlberg;A. Szelc;W. Tang;N. Taniuchi;K. Terao;C.Thorpe;D. Torbunov;D. Totani;M. Toups;Y. Tsai;J. Tyler;M. Uchida;T. Usher;B. Viren;M. Weber;H. Wei;A. White;Z. Williams;S. Wolbers;T. Wongjirad;M. Wospakrik;K. Wresilo;N. Wright;W. Wu;E. Yandel;T. Yang;L. Yates;H. Yu;G. Zeller;J. Zennamo;C. Zhang

Differential cross section measurement of charged current νe interactions without final-state pions in MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE 中无终态π介子的带电电流 πe 相互作用的微分截面测量

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.l051102
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Abratenko, P.;Anthony, J.;Arellano, L.;Asaadi, J.;Ashkenazi, A.;Balasubramanian, S.;Baller, B.;Barnes, C.;Barr, G.;Barrow, J.
• 通讯作者: Barrow, J.

First demonstration of O(1 ns) timing resolution in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

首次在 MicroBooNE 液氩时间投影室中演示 O(1×ns) 定时分辨率

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.108.052010
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Abratenko, P.;Alterkait, O.;Andrade Aldana, D.;Anthony, J.;Arellano, L.;Asaadi, J.;Ashkenazi, A.;Balasubramanian, S.;Baller, B.;Barr, G.
• 通讯作者: Barr, G.

Directional neutrino searches for Galactic Center dark matter at large underground LArTPCs

在大型地下 LArTPC 中定向中微子搜索银河中心暗物质

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.107.092006
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Buckley, Matthew R.;Mastbaum, Andrew;Mohlabeng, Gopolang
• 通讯作者: Mohlabeng, Gopolang

Calorimetric classification of track-like signatures in liquid argon TPCs using MicroBooNE data

使用 MicroBooNE 数据对液氩 TPC 中的径迹特征进行量热分类

• DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2021)153
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of High Energy Physics
• 影响因子: 5.4
• 作者: Abratenko, P.;An, R.;Anthony, J.;Asaadi, J.;Ashkenazi, A.;Balasubramanian, S.;Baller, B.;Barnes, C.;Barr, G.;Basque, V.
• 通讯作者: Basque, V.