MicroBooNE: Late Light Studies and TPC Crate Tests

This paper primarily discusses two components of the MicroBooNE neutrino experiment’s preliminary tests in its final months before it commences testing. The first of these tests was a series of performance checks on the nine TPC crates designed for the experiment. Backplane beam tests, backplane supernova tests, and ASIC tests were performed extensively to ensure the TPC crates met standards for their arrival in August. All nine crates were brought up to standards to prepare them for shipping to Fermilab. The other component was a search for late light in previous tests taken at Bo. After various methods of determining an appropriate shaper pulse, deconvolutions were performed on Bo data to extract the prompt and late lights’ corresponding times of arrival. Deconvolutions produced appealing delta functions, but the identity of the later delta functions remains yet to have its identity confirmed.