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1. Search for an anomalous excess of charged-current quasielastic νe interactions with the MicroBooNE experiment using Deep-Learning-based reconstruction

Author

Abratenko, P, An, R, Anthony, J, Arellano, L, Asaadi, J, Ashkenazi, A, Balasubramanian, S, Baller, B, Barnes, C, Barr, G, Basque, V, Bathe-Peters, L, Benevides Rodrigues, O, Berkman, S, Bhanderi, A, Bhat, A, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Bolton, T, Book, JY, Camilleri, L, Caratelli, D, Caro Terrazas, I, Cavanna, F, Cerati, G, Chen, Y, Cianci, D, Collin, GH, Conrad, JM, Convery, M, Cooper-Troendle, L, Crespo-Anadón, JI, Del Tutto, M, Dennis, SR, Detje, P, Devitt, A, Diurba, R, Dorrill, R, Duffy, K, Dytman, S, Eberly, B, Ereditato, A, Evans, JJ, Fine, R, Fiorentini Aguirre, GA, Fitzpatrick, RS, Fleming, BT, Foppiani, N, Franco, D, and Collaboration, The MicroBooNE

Abstract

We present a measurement of the ν e -interaction rate in the MicroBooNE detector that addresses the observed MiniBooNE anomalous low-energy excess (LEE). The approach taken isolates neutrino interactions consistent with the kinematics of charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) events. The topology of such signal events has a final state with one electron, one proton, and zero mesons ( 1 e 1 p ). Multiple novel techniques are employed to identify a 1 e 1 p final state, including particle identification that use two methods of Deep-Learning-based image identification and event isolation using a boosted decision-tree ensemble trained to recognize two-body scattering kinematics. This analysis selects 25 ν e -candidate events in the reconstructed neutrino energy range of 200–1200 MeV, while 29.0 ± 1. 9 ( sys ) ± 5. 4 ( stat ) are predicted when using ν μ CCQE interactions as a constraint. We use a simplified model to translate the MiniBooNE LEE observation into a prediction for a ν e signal in MicroBooNE. A Δ χ 2 test statistic, based on the combined Neyman–Pearson χ 2 formalism, is used to define frequentist confidence intervals for the LEE signal strength. Using this technique, in the case of no LEE signal, we expect this analysis to exclude a normalization factor of 0.75 (0.98) times the median MiniBooNE LEE signal strength at 90% ( 2 σ ) confidence level, while the MicroBooNE data yield an exclusion of 0.25 (0.38) times the median MiniBooNE LEE signal strength at 90% ( 2 σ ) confidence level.

Published
2022

2. Search for neutrino-induced neutral-current Δ radiative decay in MicroBooNE and a first test of the MiniBooNE low energy excess under a single-photon hypothesis

Author

Abratenko, P., An, R., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Benevides Rodrigues, O., Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Caro Terrazas, I., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Cianci, D., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., 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., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y.-J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Kaneshige, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., LaZur, R., Lepetic, I., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, John, 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., Mora Lepin, L., Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Murrells, R., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nebot-Guinot, M., Neely, R. K., Newmark, D. A., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Paudel, A., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I. D., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rice, L. C. J., Rochester, L., Rodriguez Rondon, J., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y.-T., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., HASH(0x5651c97ceac8), and MicroBooNE Collaboration

Subjects
QC
Abstract

We report results from a search for neutrino-induced neutral current (NC) resonant Δ ( 1232 ) baryon production followed by Δ radiative decay, with a ⟨ 0.8 ⟩ GeV neutrino beam. Data corresponding to MicroBooNE’s first three years of operations ( 6.80 × 10 20 protons on target) are used to select single-photon events with one or zero protons and without charged leptons in the final state ( 1 γ 1 p and 1γ 0 p , respectively). The background is constrained via an in situ high-purity measurement of NC π 0 events, made possible via dedicated 2γ 1 p and 2γ 0 p selections. A total of 16 and 153 events are observed for the 1γ 1 p and 1γ 0 p selections, respectively, compared to a constrained background prediction of 20.5 ± 3.65 ( syst ) and 145.1 ± 13.8 ( syst ) events. The data lead to a bound on an anomalous enhancement of the normalization of NC Δ radiative decay of less than 2.3 times the predicted nominal rate for this process at the 90% confidence level (C.L.). The measurement disfavors a candidate photon interpretation of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess as a factor of 3.18 times the nominal NC Δ radiative decay rate at the 94.8% C.L., in favor of the nominal prediction, and represents a greater than 50-fold improvement over the world’s best limit on single-photon production in NC interactions in the sub-GeV neutrino energy range.

Published
2022

3. New CC 0π GENIE model tune for MicroBooNE

Author

The MicroBooNE Collaboration, Abratenko, P., An, R., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Cianci, D., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Aguirre, G. A. Fiorentini, 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., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. -J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Kaneshige, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Lepetic, I., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, 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., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nebot-Guinot, M., Neely, R. K., Newmark, D. A., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Paudel, A., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I. D., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rice, ' L. C. J., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

Subjects
530 Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

This document was prepared by the MicroBooNE collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. MicroBooNE is supported by the following: the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Offices of High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation; the Royal Society (United Kingdom); and The European Union's Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions. Additional support for the laser calibration system and cosmic ray tagger was provided by the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Bern, Switzerland. We also acknowledge the contributions of technical and scientific staff to the design, construction, and operation of the MicroBooNE detector as well as the contributions of past collaborators to the development of MicroBooNE analyses, without whom this work would not have been possible. We are grateful to the NUISANCE team for extra support for the software tools used in this study. We also thank Stephen Dolan (CERN) for his code implementing the alternate fit in NUISANCE., Obtaining a high-quality interaction model with associated uncertainties is essential for neutrino experiments studying oscillations, nuclear scattering processes, or both. As a primary input to the MicroBooNE experiment’s next generation of neutrino cross section measurements and its flagship investigation of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess, we present a new tune of the charged-current pionless (CC0π) interaction cross section via the two major contributing processes—charged-current quasielastic and multinucleon interaction models—within version 3.0.6 of the GENIE neutrino event generator. Parameters in these models are tuned to muon neutrino CC0π cross section data obtained by the T2K experiment, which provides an independent set of neutrino interactions with a neutrino flux in a similar energy range to MicroBooNE’s neutrino beam. Although the fit is to muon neutrino data, the information carries over to electron neutrino simulation because the same underlying models are used in GENIE. A number of novel fit parameters were developed for this work, and the optimal parameters were chosen from existing and new sets. We choose to fit four parameters that have not previously been constrained by theory or data. Thus, this will be called a theory-driven tune. The result is an improved match to the T2K CC0π data with more well-motivated uncertainties based on the fit., Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA) DE-AC02-07CH11359, United States Department of Energy (DOE), National Science Foundation (NSF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), European Commission, UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Royal Society of London, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Bern, Switzerland

Published
2022

4. Measurement of the flux-averaged inclusive charged-current electron neutrino and antineutrino cross section on argon using the NuMI beam and the MicroBooNE detector

Author

MicroBooNE collaboration, Abratenko, P., Alrashed, M., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Fernandez, R. Castillo, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Church, E., Cianci, D., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Devitt, D., Diurba, R., Domine, L., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Sanchez, L. Escudero, Evans, J. J., Aguirre, G. A. Fiorentini, 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., Hagaman, L., Hall, E., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Hill, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Itay, R., James, C., de Vries, J. Jan, Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kamp, N., Kaneshige, 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., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martin-Albo, J., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Neely, R. K., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Paudel, A., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Porzio, D., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rogers, H. E., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Russell, B., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., 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., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., and Collaboration, MicroBooNE

Subjects
Physics, Time projection chamber, 530 Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, NuMI, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Fermilab, Neutrino, Nucleon, Electron neutrino, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

This document was prepared by the MicroBooNE Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. MicroBooNE is supported by the following: the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Offices of High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation; and The Royal Society (United Kingdom). Additional support for the laser calibration system and cosmic-ray tagger was provided by the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Bern, Switzerland., We present a measurement of the combined nu(e) + (nu) over bar (e) flux-averaged charged-current inclusive cross section on argon using data from the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) at Fermilab. Using the off-axis flux from the NuMI beam, MicroBooNE has reconstructed 214 candidate nu(e) + (nu) over bar (e) interactions with an estimated exposure of 2.4 x 10(20) protons on target. Given the estimated purity of 38.6%, this implies the observation of 80 nu(e) + (nu) over bar (e) events in argon, the largest such sample to date. The analysis includes the first demonstration of a fully automated application of a dE/dx-based particle discrimination technique of electron- and photon-induced showers in a LArTPC neutrino detector. The main background for this first nu(e) analysis is cosmic ray contamination. Significantly higher purity is expected in underground detectors, as well as with next-generation reconstruction algorithms. We measure the nu(e) + (nu) over bar (e) flux-averaged charged-current total cross section to be 6.84 +/- 1.51(stat) +/- 2.33(sys) x 10(-39) cm(2)/nucleon, for neutrino energies above 250 MeVand an average neutrino flux energy of 905 MeV when this threshold is applied. The measurement is sensitive to neutrino events where the final state electron momentum is above 48 MeV/c, includes the entire angular phase space of the electron, and is in agreement with the theoretical predictions from GENIE and NuWro. This measurement is also the first demonstration of electron-neutrino reconstruction in a surface LArTPC in the presence of cosmic-ray backgrounds, which will be a crucial task for surface experiments like those that comprise the short-baseline neutrino program at Fermilab., Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA) DE-AC02-07CH11359, United States Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), European Commission, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom Research and Innovation, Royal Society of London

Published
2021

5. Prospects of light sterile neutrino oscillation and CP violation searches at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Facility.

Author

Cianci, D., Furmanski, A., Karagiorgi, G., and Ross-Lonergan, M.

Subjects
*CP violation, *NEUTRINOS
Abstract

We investigate the ability of the short baseline neutrino (SBN) experimental program at Fermilab to test the globally-allowed (3+N) sterile neutrino oscillation parameter space. We explicitly consider the globally-allowed parameter space for the (3+1), (3+2), and (3+3) sterile neutrino oscillation scenarios. We find that SBN can probe with 5σ sensitivity more than 85%, 95% and 55% of the parameter space currently allowed at 99% confidence level for the (3+1), (3+2) and (3+3) scenarios, respectively, with the (3+N) allowed space used in these studies closely resembling that of previous studies [J. M. Conrad, C. M. Ignarra, G. Karagiorgi, M. H. Shaevitz, and J. Spitz, Adv. High Energy Phys. 2013, 1 (2013).], calculated using the same methodology. In the case of the (3+2) and (3+3) scenarios, CP-violating phases appear in the oscillation probability terms, leading to observable differences in the appearance probabilities of neutrinos and antineutrinos. We explore SBN's sensitivity to those phases for the (3+2) scenario through the currently planned neutrino beam running, and investigate potential improvements through additional antineutrino beam running. We show that, if antineutrino exposure is considered, for maximal values of the (3+2) CP-violating phase ϕ54, SBN could be the first experiment to directly observe ~2σ hints of CP violation associated with an extended lepton sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2017
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6. Search for an Excess of Electron Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE Using Multiple Final-State Topologies.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Collin GH, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Escudero Sanchez L, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Genty V, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kaleko D, Kalra D, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Lister A, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, 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 AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nebot-Guinot M, Neely RK, Newmark DA, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Patel N, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Russell B, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Soleti SR, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Terao K, Thomson M, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

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We present a measurement of ν_{e} interactions from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber to address the nature of the excess of low energy interactions observed by the MiniBooNE Collaboration. Three independent ν_{e} searches are performed across multiple single electron final states, including an exclusive search for two-body scattering events with a single proton, a semi-inclusive search for pionless events, and a fully inclusive search for events containing all hadronic final states. With differing signal topologies, statistics, backgrounds, reconstruction algorithms, and analysis approaches, the results are found to be either consistent with or modestly lower than the nominal ν_{e} rate expectations from the Booster Neutrino Beam and no excess of ν_{e} events is observed.

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2022
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7. First Measurement of Energy-Dependent Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, 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 AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nebot-Guinot M, Neely RK, Newmark DA, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Patel N, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report a measurement of the energy-dependent total charged-current cross section σ(E_{ν}) for inclusive muon neutrinos scattering on argon, as well as measurements of flux-averaged differential cross sections as a function of muon energy and hadronic energy transfer (ν). Data corresponding to 5.3×10^{19} protons on target of exposure were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab booster neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of approximately 0.8 GeV. The mapping between the true neutrino energy E_{ν} and reconstructed neutrino energy E_{ν}^{rec} and between the energy transfer ν and reconstructed hadronic energy E_{had}^{rec} are validated by comparing the data and Monte Carlo (MC) predictions. In particular, the modeling of the missing hadronic energy and its associated uncertainties are verified by a new method that compares the E_{had}^{rec} distributions between data and a MC prediction after constraining the reconstructed muon kinematic distributions, energy, and polar angle to those of data. The success of this validation gives confidence that the missing energy in the MicroBooNE detector is well modeled and underpins first-time measurements of both the total cross section σ(E_{ν}) and the differential cross section dσ/dν on argon.

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2022
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8. Search for Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current Δ Radiative Decay in MicroBooNE and a First Test of the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess under a Single-Photon Hypothesis.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, 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 AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Murrells R, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nebot-Guinot M, Neely RK, Newmark DA, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Patel N, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report results from a search for neutrino-induced neutral current (NC) resonant Δ(1232) baryon production followed by Δ radiative decay, with a ⟨0.8⟩  GeV neutrino beam. Data corresponding to MicroBooNE's first three years of operations (6.80×10^{20} protons on target) are used to select single-photon events with one or zero protons and without charged leptons in the final state (1γ1p and 1γ0p, respectively). The background is constrained via an in situ high-purity measurement of NC π^{0} events, made possible via dedicated 2γ1p and 2γ0p selections. A total of 16 and 153 events are observed for the 1γ1p and 1γ0p selections, respectively, compared to a constrained background prediction of 20.5±3.65(syst) and 145.1±13.8(syst) events. The data lead to a bound on an anomalous enhancement of the normalization of NC Δ radiative decay of less than 2.3 times the predicted nominal rate for this process at the 90% confidence level (C.L.). The measurement disfavors a candidate photon interpretation of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess as a factor of 3.18 times the nominal NC Δ radiative decay rate at the 94.8% C.L., in favor of the nominal prediction, and represents a greater than 50-fold improvement over the world's best limit on single-photon production in NC interactions in the sub-GeV neutrino energy range.

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2022
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9. Search for a Higgs Portal Scalar Decaying to Electron-Positron Pairs in the MicroBooNE Detector.

Author

Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Devitt D, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hall E, Hen O, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, 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 AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Neely RK, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rogers HE, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Siegel H, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tagg N, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a search for the decays of a neutral scalar boson produced by kaons decaying at rest, in the context of the Higgs portal model, using the MicroBooNE detector. We analyze data triggered in time with the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam spill, with an exposure of 1.93×10^{20} protons on target. We look for monoenergetic scalars that come from the direction of the NuMI hadron absorber, at a distance of 100 m from the detector, and decay to electron-positron pairs. We observe one candidate event, with a standard model background prediction of 1.9±0.8. We set an upper limit on the scalar-Higgs mixing angle of θ<(3.3-4.6)×10^{-4} at the 95% confidence level for scalar boson masses in the range (100-200)  MeV/c^{2}. We exclude, at the 95% confidence level, the remaining model parameters required to explain the central value of a possible excess of K&#95;{L}^{0}→π^{0}νν[over ¯] decays reported by the KOTO collaboration. We also provide a model-independent limit on a new boson X produced in K→πX decays and decaying to e^{+}e^{-}.

Published
2021
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10. First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike ν&#95;{μ}-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector.

Author

Abratenko P, Alrashed M, An R, Anthony J, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, 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, Cohen EO, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Devitt D, Diurba R, Domine L, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Escudero Sanchez L, Evans JJ, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu L, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hall E, Hamilton P, Hen O, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Huang EC, Itay R, James C, Jan de Vries J, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby B, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Littlejohn BR, Lorca D, Louis WC, Luo X, Marchionni A, Marcocci S, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martin-Albo J, Martinez Caicedo DA, 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 AF, Moore CD, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Neely RK, Nienaber P, Nowak J, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Porzio D, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rogers HE, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Russell B, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Soleti SR, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tagg N, Tang W, Terao K, Thornton RT, Thorpe C, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tufanli S, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Van de Water RG, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wu W, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report on the first measurement of flux-integrated single differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino (ν&#95;{μ}) scattering on argon with a muon and a proton in the final state, ^{40}Ar (ν&#95;{μ},μp)X. The measurement was carried out using the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber detector with an exposure of 4.59×10^{19} protons on target. Events are selected to enhance the contribution of CC quasielastic (CCQE) interactions. The data are reported in terms of a total cross section as well as single differential cross sections in final state muon and proton kinematics. We measure the integrated per-nucleus CCQE-like cross section (i.e., for interactions leading to a muon, one proton, and no pions above detection threshold) of (4.93±0.76&#95;{stat}±1.29&#95;{sys})×10^{-38}  cm^{2}, in good agreement with theoretical calculations. The single differential cross sections are also in overall good agreement with theoretical predictions, except at very forward muon scattering angles that correspond to low-momentum-transfer events.

Published
2020
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11. First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon at E&#95;{ν}∼0.8  GeV with the MicroBooNE Detector.

Author

Abratenko P, Adams C, Alrashed M, An R, Anthony J, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Auger M, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Bass M, Bay F, Bhat A, Bhattacharya K, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Carr R, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Church E, Cianci D, Cohen EO, Collin GH, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Devitt D, Diaz A, Domine L, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Escudero Sanchez L, Esquivel J, Evans JJ, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Genty V, Goeldi D, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Greenlee H, Grosso R, Gu L, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hackenburg A, Hamilton P, Hen O, Hill C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Huang EC, James C, Jan de Vries J, Ji X, Jiang L, Johnson RA, Joshi J, Jostlein H, Jwa YJ, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby B, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Lepetic I, Li Y, Lister A, Littlejohn BR, Lockwitz S, Lorca D, Louis WC, Luethi M, Lundberg B, Luo X, Marchionni A, Marcocci S, Mariani C, Marshall J, Martin-Albo J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, Meddage V, Mettler T, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Moon J, Mooney M, Moore CD, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Murrells R, Naples D, Nienaber P, Nowak J, Palamara O, Pandey V, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Porzio D, Pulliam G, Qian X, Raaf JL, Rafique A, Ren L, Rochester L, Rogers HE, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Russell B, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Soleti SR, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tagg N, Tang W, Terao K, Thomson M, Thornton RT, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tufanli S, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Van de Water RG, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Wickremasinghe DA, Wierman K, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Woodruff K, Wu W, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report the first measurement of the double-differential and total muon neutrino charged current inclusive cross sections on argon at a mean neutrino energy of 0.8 GeV. Data were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab Booster neutrino beam and correspond to 1.6×10^{20} protons on target of exposure. The measured differential cross sections are presented as a function of muon momentum, using multiple Coulomb scattering as a momentum measurement technique, and the muon angle with respect to the beam direction. We compare the measured cross sections to multiple neutrino event generators and find better agreement with those containing more complete treatment of quasielastic scattering processes at low Q^{2}. The total flux integrated cross section is measured to be 0.693±0.010(stat)±0.165(syst)×10^{-38}  cm^{2}.

Published
2019
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12. Lattice gas simulations of dynamical geometry in two dimensions.

Author

Klales A, Cianci D, Needell Z, Meyer DA, and Love PJ

Subjects
Mechanical Phenomena, Molecular Conformation, Surface Properties, Time Factors, Gases chemistry, Hydrodynamics, Models, Molecular
Abstract

We present a hydrodynamic lattice gas model for two-dimensional flows on curved surfaces with dynamical geometry. This model is an extension to two dimensions of the dynamical geometry lattice gas model previously studied in one dimension. We expand upon a variation of the two-dimensional flat space Frisch-Hasslacher-Pomeau (FHP) model created by Frisch [Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1505 (1986)] and independently by Wolfram, and modified by Boghosian [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 360, 333 (2002)]. We define a hydrodynamic lattice gas model on an arbitrary triangulation whose flat space limit is the FHP model. Rules that change the geometry are constructed using the Pachner moves, which alter the triangulation but not the topology. We present results on the growth of the number of triangles as a function of time. Simulations show that the number of triangles grows with time as t(1/3), in agreement with a mean-field prediction. We also present preliminary results on the distribution of curvature for a typical triangulation in these simulations.

Published
2010
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