Speakers
Asli Abdullahi
(Fermilab)
Mark Ross-Lonergan
(Los Alamos National Lab)
Description
We present a phenomenological study of MicroBooNE’s ability to investigate $e^+e^-$ final states produced in dark photon mediated neutrino-upscattering—a beyond-Standard Model process proposed as a solution to the MiniBooNE anomaly. Utilising the similarities shared between the observable signatures of neutrino-induced $e^+e^-$ and single photons originating in the radiative decays of the $\Delta(1232)$ resonance, we consider MicroBooNE’s recent public data from its search for neutral current$\Delta(1232)$ radiative decays to test benchmark models of $e^+e^-$ production, and investigate MicroBooNE’s sensitivity to heavy neutrino models in which the neutrino sector is strongly coupled to a dark sector.
Author
Asli Abdullahi
(Fermilab)
Co-authors
Mr
Daniele Massaro
(University of Bologna)
Dr
Georgia Karagiorgi
(Columbia University)
Jaime Hoefken Zink
(Università di Bologna / HIDDeN ITN)
Mark Ross-Lonergan
(Los Alamos National Lab)
Matheus Hostert
(Perimeter Institute)
Prof.
Silvia Pascoli
(University of Bologna)