MicroBooNE

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The MicroBooNE experiment is a new type of neutrino detector that will operate at Fermilab (near Chicago) from 2015. It consists of a large volume (about the size of a double-decker bus) filled with liquid argon at -189 degrees Celsius. An intense beam of neutrinos is fired 470 m towards the detector from the Fermilab accelerator complex. Neutrinos are "ghost particles" that barely interact with matter and most will simply pass through the MicroBooNE detector and Earth's crust. However, the beam is sufficiently intense that a few 100,000 will interact in the detector in approximately three years. The MicroBooNE liquid argon technology enables the interactions to be photographed in three dimensions with sub-mm precision. This proposal focusses on the development of advanced reconstruction software to turn the recorded MicroBooNE data into three-dimensional images of the particles produced in the neutrino interactions.