MicroBooNE: Proton Decay Background Studies

MicroBooNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber detector(LArTPC) that detects and analyzes neutrino interactions using the FermiLab booster neutrino beam as well as the Neutrinos from the Main Injector beam(NuMi).[4] This experiment was proposed to look into the excess of low energy neutrino events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment. Unlike MiniBooNE, MicroBooNE has the capability to distinguish between electrons and photons. MicroBooNE is also able to see proton decay modes that Water Cherenkov detectors like Super K aren’t able to see. MicroBooNE is a benchmark for all future massive Liquid Argon(LAr) detectors and because of this, MicroBooNE will also be used to study Proton Decay background rejection, Particle Detection, and Readout procedures.