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MicroBooNE is a 180 ton liquid argon time projection chamber designed for neutrino detection, located at Fermilab. The experiment purses a broad physics program including short baseline oscillation physics and probing the MiniBooNE/LSND anomalies, neutrino-nucleus cross section measurements, searches for physics beyond the standard model, and improving our understanding of the LArTPC technology ahead of experiments such as DUNE. MicroBooNE receives flux from two neutrino beams, the Booster Neutrino Beam and Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) which possess different flux characteristics and baselines. These facilitate both the breaking of degeneracies in oscillation measurements, and a wide variety of cross section measurements, including electron neutrino and anti-neutrino induced processes, as well as studies of novel kinematic imbalance observables sensitive to nuclear effects. The NuMI target also provides a potential source of BSM particles such as Axion-like particles and heavy neutral leptons.
