UNSPECIFIED (2020) Selection of charged-current neutrino-induced K++ production interactions in MicroBooNE. Other. UNSPECIFIED.
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MicroBooNE is an 85-ton active mass liquid-argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. MicroBooNE’s physics goals is the precision measurement of neutrino interactions on argon in the 1 GeV energy regime. The study of neutrino interactions producing a K + in the final-state can improve the background estimates for future proton-decay experiments looking for the p → K + ν channel on argon such as DUNE. In this document we present a simulation study for a selection of events with a K + that is produced in a charged-current neutrino interaction and decays into a µ+ and a νµ in the MicroBooNE detector. It will focus on how we use the particle identification techniques developed by MicroBooNE to achieve a sample with a 7% efficiency and 66.7% purity. This is the first step toward a charged-current kaon production cross section measurement in argon.