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The MicroBooNE detector is an 85-ton active mass Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) located on-axis along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB). It serves as a part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab, which was primarily designed to address the MiniBooNE low energy excess. The primary signal channel in the LArTPC is ionisation, but the argon also produces large quantities of scintillation light. Prompt scintillation light in MicroBooNE is recorded with a plane of 32 PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMTs). The scintillation light is used for accurate event timing and cosmic muon rejection, where the latter is important for on-surface detectors, such as MicroBooNE. With the 5 years of the primary physics run, we have developed several light-based analyses which will be presented in this talk. The experience we gained from MicroBooNE will benefit us for the next many years long-running Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) and the future DUNE programmes to properly understand the physics of the scintillation light in LArTPCs.
