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MicroBooNE: The Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment
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- Proposed: Oct 2, 2007,
- Approved: Jun, 2008,
- Started: Oct 15, 2015,
- Completed: 2021
MicroBooNE Collaboration
Liquid argon time projection chambers are one of the most promising technologies for future large scale neutrino detectors. Research and Development towards realizing these large detectors in the U.S. has been hampered by the lack of a real proof of principle experiment using this technology to do a forefront neutrino measurement. MicroBooNE is proposed to fill this gap and not only provide realistic technology tests but also accomplish very important neutrino physics measurements in the Fermilab Booster and NuMI Neutrino Beams. The MicroBooNE experiment is a small, focused effort, designed to exploit the advantages of liquid argon detectors to make detailed measurements of neutrino interactions. The major physics goal of MicroBooNE is to address the excess of events at low energies observed by MiniBooNE [1]. In addition, the fine-grained information available with the MicroBooNE detector will allow much improved cross section measurements especially by detecting and measuring all of the outgoing particles (except neutrinos).
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