Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2025

Abstract

We investigate the expected precision of the reconstructed neutrino direction using a νμ-argon quasielastic-like event topology with one muon and one proton in the final state and the reconstruction capabilities of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber. This direction is of importance in the context of DUNE sub-GeV atmospheric oscillation studies. MicroBooNE allows for a data-driven quantification of this resolution by investigating the deviation of the reconstructed muon-proton system orientation with respect to the well-known direction of neutrinos originating from the Booster Neutrino Beam with an exposure of 1.3 × 1021 protons on target. Using simulation studies, we derive the expected sub-GeV DUNE atmospheric-neutrino reconstructed simulated spectrum by developing a reweighting scheme as a function of the true neutrino energy. We further report flux-integrated single- and double-differential cross section measurements of charged-current νμ quasielastic-like scattering on argon as a function of the muon-proton system angle using the full MicroBooNE data sets. We also demonstrate the sensitivity of these results to nuclear effects and final state hadronic reinteraction modeling.

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B. Baller,12 A. Barnard,29 G. Barr,29 D. Barrow,29 J. Barrow,26 V. Basque,12 J. Bateman,15, 22

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(The MicroBooNE Collaboration)∗

1Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, IL, 60439, USA

2Universit¨at Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland

3Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY, 11973, USA

4University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA

5University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom

6Centro de Investigaciones Energ´eticas, Medioambientales y Tecnol´ogicas (CIEMAT), Madrid E-28040, Spain

7University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

8University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA

9Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA

10Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

11University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom

12Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL 60510, USA

13Universidad de Granada, Granada E-18071, Spain

14Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, IL 60616, USA

15Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

16Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

17The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA

18Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA

19Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom

20Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

21Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA

22The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom

23Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

24University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

25Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

26University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

27Nankai University, Nankai District, Tianjin 300071, China

28New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA

29University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom

30University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

31Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom

32Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA

33SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA

34South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, SD, 57701, USA

35University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, 04104, USA

36Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 69978

37University of Texas, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA

38Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA

39Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

40University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

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