21–26 Jun 2026
University of California, Irvine
US/Pacific timezone

Electron Neutrino Selections for ‘3+1’ Neutrino Oscillation Searches in SBN

Not scheduled
20m
Conference Center (University of California, Irvine)

Conference Center

University of California, Irvine

Poster Neutrino Oscillations Poster session

Speaker

Nupur Oza (Columbia University)

Description

The Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab employs a near detector, SBND, and a far detector, ICARUS, to measure muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance and disappearance from the muon neutrino-dominated Booster Neutrino Beam. The use of the same liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) technology in both detectors and the same neutrino beam enables a systematically well-constrained oscillation measurement, by leveraging the high statistics of O(10 million) neutrino interactions expected at SBND through 2027 to constrain flux and cross-section systematics. In this poster, we present progress towards high-statistics, high-purity electron neutrino selections in SBND and ICARUS and related electron shower energy calibration measurements in SBND enabled by the SPINE deep learning-based particle reconstruction framework. Furthermore, we discuss how these samples can enable '3+1' sterile neutrino oscillations in a combined fit accounting for systematic uncertainties and correlations.

Authors

Dr Junjie Xia (SLAC) Nupur Oza (Columbia University)

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