Backgrounds in Neutrino Appearance Signal at MiniBooNE
Zelimir Djurcic (for the MiniBooNE Collaboration)

TL;DR
This paper reviews the background processes affecting neutrino appearance signals at MiniBooNE, detailing sources and methods to handle them to improve oscillation search accuracy.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive summary of background sources and the analytical tools used to mitigate them in the MiniBooNE neutrino oscillation experiment.
Findings
Identification of key background sources like intrinsic ν_e and mis-identified events
Development of tools to accurately estimate and subtract backgrounds
Enhanced understanding of background impacts on oscillation signal detection
Abstract
The MiniBooNE (Booster Neutrino Experiment) experiment is a precise search for neutrino oscillations but is crucially sensitive to background processes that would mimic an oscillation signal. The background sources include intrinsic from kaon and muon decays, mis-identified , gammas from radiative delta decays, and muon neutrino events mis-identified as electrons. A summary of these backgrounds and the tools to handle them is presented.
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