@article{4cafdcbfa5c54ccbb9cc60138b27dacc,
title = "Demonstration of MeV-scale physics in liquid argon time projection chambers using ArgoNeuT",
abstract = "MeV-scale energy depositions by low-energy photons produced in neutrino-argon interactions have been identified and reconstructed in ArgoNeuT liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) data. ArgoNeuT data collected on the NuMI beam at Fermilab were analyzed to select isolated low-energy depositions in the TPC volume. The total number, reconstructed energies, and positions of these depositions have been compared to those from simulations of neutrino-argon interactions using the fluka Monte Carlo generator. Measured features are consistent with energy depositions from photons produced by deexcitation of the neutrino's target nucleus and by inelastic scattering of primary neutrons produced by neutrino-argon interactions. This study represents a successful reconstruction of physics at the MeV scale in a LArTPC, a capability of crucial importance for detection and reconstruction of supernova and solar neutrino interactions in future large LArTPCs.",
author = "{(ArgoNeuT Collaboration)} and R. Acciarri and C. Adams and J. Asaadi and B. Baller and T. Bolton and C. Bromberg and F. Cavanna and E. Church and D. Edmunds and A. Ereditato and S. Farooq and A. Ferrari and Fitzpatrick, {R. S.} and B. Fleming and A. Hackenburg and G. Horton-Smith and C. James and K. Lang and M. Lantz and I. Lepetic and Littlejohn, {B. R.} and X. Luo and R. Mehdiyev and B. Page and O. Palamara and B. Rebel and Sala, {P. R.} and G. Scanavini and A. Schukraft and G. Smirnov and M. Soderberg and J. Spitz and Szelc, {A. M.} and M. Weber and W. Wu and T. Yang and Zeller, {G. P.}",
note = "Funding Information: This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the MINOS Collaboration in providing their data for use in this analysis. We acknowledge the support of Fermilab, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation in ArgoNeuT{\textquoteright}s construction, operation, and data analysis. We also acknowledge the support of the Neutrino Physics Center (NPC) Scholar program at Fermilab, ARCS Foundation, Inc., and The Royal Society (United Kingdom). This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The SCGSR program is administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for the DOE. ORISE is managed by ORAU under Contract No. DE-SC0014664. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the »https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/» Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.99.012002",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "99",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "1",
}