Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system

Adams, C.; Collaboration, Microboone; Alrashed, M.; An, R.; Anthony, J.; Asaadi, J.; Ashkenazi, A.; Auger, M.; Balasubramanian, S.; Baller, B.; Barnes, C.; Barr, G.; Bass, M.; Bay, F.; Bhat, A.; Bhattacharya, K.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bolton, T.; Camilleri, L.; Caratelli, D.; Terrazas, I.; Carr, R.; Fernandez, R.; Cavanna, F.; Cerati, G.; Chen, Y.; Church, E.; Cianci, D.; Cohen, E.; Collin, Gh; Conrad, Jm; Convery, M.; Cooper-Troendle, L.; Crespo-Anadon, J.; Del Tutto, M.; Devitt, D.; Diaz, A.; Duffy, K.; Dytman, S.; Eberly, B.; Ereditato, A.; Sanchez, L.; Esquivel, J.; Evans, J.; Fadeeva, A.; Fitzpatrick, R.; Fleming, B.; Franco, D.; Furmanski, A.; Garcia-Gamez, D.; Garvey, G.; Genty, V; Goeldi, D.; Gollapinniz, S.; Goodwin, O.; Gramellini, E.; Greenlee, H.; Grosso, R.; Guenette, R.; Guzowski, P.; Hackenburg, A.; Hamilton, P.; Hen, O.; Hewes, J.; Hill, C.; Horton-Smith, G.; Hourlier, A.; Huang, E-C; James, C.; de Vries, J.; Jiang, L.; Johnson, R.; Joshi, J.; Jostlein, H.; Jwa, Y-J; Karagiorgi, G.; Ketchum, W.; Kirby, B.; Kirby, M.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kreslo, I; Li, Y.; Lister, A.; Littlejohn, B.; Lockwitz, S.; Lorca, D.; Louis, W.; Luethi, M.; Lundberg, B.; Luo, X.; Marchionni, A.; Marcocci, S.; Mariani, C.; Marshall, J.; Martin-Albo, J.; Caicedo, D.; Mastbaum, A.; Meddage, V; Mettler, T.; Mills, G.; Mistry, K.; Mogan, A.; Moon, J.; Mooney, M.; Moore, C.; Mousseau, J.; Murphy, M.; Murrells, R.; Naples, D.; Nienaber, P.; Nowak, J.; Palamara, O.; Pandey, V; Paolone, V; Papadopoulou, A.; Papavassiliou, V; Pate, S.; Pavlovic, Z.; Piasetzky, E.; Porzio, D.; Pulliam, G.; Qian, X.; Raaf, J.; Rafique, A.; Rochester, L.; Ross-Lonergan, M.; von Rohr, C.; Russell, B.; Schmitz, D.; Schukraft, A.; Seligman, W.; Shaevitz, M.; Sharankova, R.; Sinclair, J.; Smith, A.; Snider, E.; Soderberg, M.; Soldner-Rembold, S.; Soleti, S.; Spentzouris, P.; Spitz, J.; St John, J.; Strauss, T.; Sutton, K.; Sword-Fehlberg, S.; Szelc, A.; Tagg, N.; Tang, W.; Terao, K.; Thomson, M.; Thornton, R.; Toups, M.; Tsai, Y-T; Tufanli, S.; Usher, T.; Van De Pontseele, W.; Van de Water, R.; Viren, B.; Weber, M.; Wei, H.; Wickremasinghe, D.; Wierman, K.; Williams, Z.; Wolbers, S.; Wongjirad, T.; Woodruff, K.; Yang, T.; Yarbrough, G.; Yates, L.; Zeller, G.; Zennameh, J.; Zhang, C.

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/14/04/p04004

Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system

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Adams C., Collaboration M., Alrashed M., An R., Anthony J., Asaadi J., ...Daha Fazla

JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, cilt.14, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)

Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
Cilt numarası: 14
Basım Tarihi: 2019
Doi Numarası: 10.1088/1748-0221/14/04/p04004
Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
Anahtar Kelimeler: Neutrino detectors, Particle tracking detectors, Particle identification methods
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The MicroBooNE detector utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) with an 85 t active mass to study neutrino interactions along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. With a deployment location near ground level, the detector records many cosmic muon tracks in each beam-related detector trigger that can be misidentified as signals of interest. To reduce these cosmogenic backgrounds, we have designed and constructed a TPC-external Cosmic Ray Tagger (CRT). This sub-system was developed by the Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Albert Einstein center for fundamental physics, University of Bern. The system utilizes plastic scintillation modules to provide precise time and position information for TPC-traversing particles. Successful matching of TPC tracks and CRT data will allow us to reduce cosmogenic background and better characterize the light collection system and LArTPC data using cosmic muons. In this paper we describe the design and installation of the MicroBooNE CRT system and provide an overview of a series of tests done to verify the proper operation of the system and its components during installation, commissioning, and physics data-taking.