Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2009-02-12
Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 608 (2009), pp. 206-224
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
39 pages, 25 figures. Version 2 includes minor editorial changes
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nima.2009.06.064
The Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE) searches for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations using the ~1 GeV neutrino beam produced by the FNAL Booster synchrotron. The array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) lining the MiniBooNE detector records Cherenkov and scintillation photons from the charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. We describe a maximum likelihood fitting algorithm used to reconstruct the basic properties (position, direction, energy) of these particles from the charges and times measured by the PMTs. The likelihoods returned from fitting an event to different particle hypotheses are used to categorize it as a signal electron neutrino event or as one of the background muon neutrino processes, in particular charged current quasi-elastic scattering and neutral current $\pi^0$ production. The reconstruction and event selection techniques described here can be applied to current and future neutrino experiments using similar Cherenkov-based detection.
Laird E. M.
Liu Ya-Ying
Meyers P. D.
Patterson Ryan B.
Stancu Ion
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