MicroBooNE Collaboration Meeting

26 May 2026, 09:00 → 29 May 2026, 13:00 US/Eastern

Plenary/Parallel A: 321, Parallel B: 106 (Allen Hall)

Donna Naples (University of Pittsburgh (US)), London Cooper-Troendle, Mark Ross-Lonergan, Vittorio Paolone (University of Pittsburgh (US))

 

                                                     

 

                

https://microboone.fnal.gov/                                                  https://www.pittpacc.pitt.edu/

Tuesday 26 May

09:00 → 10:30 Opening Session

09:00 Welcome to Pittsburgh

Speakers: Donna Naples (University of Pittsburgh (US)), London Cooper-Troendle, Vittorio Paolone (University of Pittsburgh)

uboone_welcome_260526.pdf

09:15 Welcome and Collaboration Business

Speakers: Justin Evans (University of Manchester (UK)), Mark Ross-Lonergan

Collaboration Business

09:40 Physics Coordinator Introduction

Speaker: Mark Ross-Lonergan

10:05 Analysis Tools and Techniques Introduction

Speaker: Andrew Mastbaum (Rutgers University)

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:40 Plenary: BSM Overview

BSM Physics

11:00 BSM/Dark Sector Searches

Speaker: Brian Thomas Batell

11:25 The ICARUS BSM Program

Speaker: Vittorio Paolone (University of Pittsburgh)

uboone_bsm_icarus_ov_260526.pdf

11:50 The SBND BSM Program

12:15 The MicroBooNE BSM Program

Speakers: Anyssa Navrer-Agasson (Imperial College London), Vincent Basque (Fermilab)

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary: Data and Reconstruction

14:00 Data Management

Speakers: Benjamin Bogart, Christian Nguyen (Rutgers University)

14:30 Expanding MicroBooNE Open Datasets

Speaker: David Caratelli (UC Santa Barbara)

15:00 New Reconstruction Network

Speaker: Taritree Wongjirad (Tufts University)

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 Plenary: NuMI Timing and KDAR

16:00 NuMI KDAR Simulation

16:30 KDAR Search

Speaker: Benjamin Bogart

17:00 NuMI Timing

Speaker: Andrew Buchanan (Queen's University)

Wednesday 27 May

09:00 → 10:40 Parallel 1

09:00 NuMu/NuMuBar Inclusive

Speaker: William Wang (The University of Edinburgh)

09:00 TKI/GKI for Osc

09:25 BNB NuE BDT with NuGraph

09:25 NC 1p

Speaker: Liang Liu (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:50 MicroSCOPE & HNLs

Speaker: Magnus Handley (University of Cambridge)

09:50 NuMI Nue-Nuebar

Speaker: Holly Parkinson (University of Edinburgh)

10:15 Pi0 Imposters

Speaker: Erin Yandel (LANL)

10:15 Transition magnetic moment

Speaker: Karan Kumar (Columbia University)

10:40 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary

11:00 5-year Calibration Paper

Speaker: Adi Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv University (IL))

11:15 Detector Decomissioning Paper

Speaker: Avinay Bhat (University of Chicago)

11:30 BNB CC NP1pi GKI

12:00 DIS & Energy Estimation

Speaker: Christopher James Thorpe (University of Manchester)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Plenary

14:00 Electron-Neutrino Cross-Section Wine & Cheese Practice Talk

Speakers: Abbey Barnard (University of Oxford), Lucile Mellet (Michigan State University)

15:10 BNB Nue 1p0p

Speaker: Maitreyee Moudgalya

15:40 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:40 Parallel 2

16:00 BNB Npi

16:00 NuE/NuMu Ratio

Speaker: Lucile Mellet (Michigan State University)

16:25 NC Np

Speaker: Brenna McConnell (Indiana University Bloomington)

16:25 Neutrons with Blips

16:50 Axions

16:50 CC 1pi+1pi0

Speaker: Albrun Johnson

17:15 3+2 Sterile Neutrinos with Profit

Speaker: Anthony Kelly (Indiana University Bloomington)

17:15 LANTERN eLEE

Speaker: Zev Imani (Tufts University)

Thursday 28 May

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary: NuMu Disappearance & Future Osc

09:00 Osc Introduction

Speaker: Jessie Micallef (Tufts University (and MIT))

09:30 NuMu Disappearance

10:00 Rootinos and Runs 4 & 5

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:40 Parallel 3

11:00 BNB Neutrons

Speaker: Miguel Hernandez Morquecho (University of Minnesota)

11:00 Z-expansion / MA

Speaker: Lee Hagaman (Columbia University)

11:25 Dark Tridents

11:25 NuMI NuE CC Np

Speaker: Abbey Barnard (University of Oxford)

11:50 NC pi+

Speaker: Patrick James Green (University of Oxford (GB))

11:50 NuMu Disappearance: 3+1+ Decay

Speaker: Jesse Mendez

12:15 Late light

12:15 PeLEE NuMu Disappearance

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary

14:00 NGEM Overview

Speaker: Lee Hagaman (Columbia University)

14:30 WC e+e- Update

Speaker: Joseph Bateman

15:00 Blips

Speaker: Diego Andrade Aldana (Illinois Institute of Technology)

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 18:00 Plenary

16:00 XS Convener Summary

Speakers: Fan Gao (University of California, Santa Barbara), London Cooper-Troendle, Patrick James Green (University of Oxford (GB))

MicroBooNE Cross Section Overview

16:30 CC 0piNp Multiplicity

Speaker: Francisco Martínez López (Indiana University)

17:00 CC0pi Joint Analysis with ANNIE

Speaker: Christian Nguyen (Rutgers University)

17:30 Higher Order Resonances

Speaker: Fan Gao (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Friday 29 May

09:00 → 10:20 Plenary: Neutrino 2026 practice talks

09:00 Cross Section Talk

Speaker: Patrick James Green (University of Oxford (GB))

09:40 BSM Talk

10:20 → 10:50 Break

10:50 → 12:40 Plenary

10:50 Tl208 measurements

Speaker: Maria Gabriela Manuel Alves (Illinois Institute of Technology)

11:20 MEC Update

11:35 Talks Committee

11:45 Publications Committee

11:55 Impact Award Presentation

12:10 Closeout

Speakers: Justin Evans (University of Manchester (UK)), Mark Ross-Lonergan