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MicroBooNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber used at Fermilab to detect neutrinos as part of the Short Baseline Neutrino program. MicroBooNE uses 32 photomultiplier tubes to detect scintillation light created by neutrino interactions. In this study, we investigate the distinction between protons and muons using scintillation light signals: both the total light yield of the events and the characteristics of the scintillation light waveforms. We find late light measurements consistent with independent measurements of MicroBooNE's argon purity, measurable separation between the total light yield of proton and muon events, and highly similar proton and muon waveform characteristics. These results demonstrate the potential for optical techniques in complementing charge-based reconstruction in LArTPCs, which can inform future LArTPC experiments like DUNE.