Dark Matter & Heavy Sterile Neutrino Searches in MicroBooNE/SBND

在费米实验室的BNB和NUMI中微子束中可以产生重惰性中微子。MicroBooNE和SBND探测器可以在液态氩中探测到这种重惰性中微子的衰变。该学生正在开发基于卷积神经网络的算法来选择这些事件。SBND也可以用来探测暗物质的产生，或者通过相对于光束到达时间延迟的特征，或者通过将SBND作为光束转储实验来操作。这名学生正在进行预测这种暗物质特征灵敏度的研究。

Heavy sterile neutrinos could be produced in the BNB and NUMI neutrino beams at Fermilab. The MicroBooNE and SBND detectors could detect such heavy-sterile neutrino decays in the liquid argon. The student is developing algorithms based on Convolutional Neural Networks to select these events. SBND could also be used to detect dark matter production either through signatures that are delayed with respect to the beam arrival time or by operating SBND as a beam dump experiment. The student is performing studies that predict sensitivities for such dark matter signatures.