Calibration of the charge and energy loss per unit length of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using muons and protons

Adams, C.; Alrashed, M.; An, R.; Anthony, J.; Asaadi, J.; Ashkenazi, A.; Balasubramanian, S.; Baller, B.; Barnes, C.; Barr, G.; Basque, V; Bass, M.; Bay, F.; Berkman, S.; Bhanderi, A.; Bhat, A.; 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.; Conrad, J.; Convery, M.; Cooper-Troendle, L.; Crespo-Anadon, J.; Del Tutto, M.; Devitt, D.; Diaz, A.; Domine, L.; Duffy, K.; Dytman, S.; Eberly, B.; Ereditato, A.; Sanchez, L.; Esquivel, J.; Evans, J.; Fitzpatrick, R.; Fleming, B.; Foppiani, N.; Franco, D.; Furmanski, A.; Garcia-Gamez, D.; Gardiner, S.; Genty, V; Goeldi, D.; Gollapinni, S.; Goodwin, O.; Gramellini, E.; Green, P.; Greenlee, H.; Grosso, R.; Gu, L.; Gu, W.; Guenette, R.; Guzowski, P.; Hamilton, P.; Hen, O.; Hill, C.; Horton-Smith, G.; Hourlier, A.; Huang, E.; Itay, R.; James, C.; de Vries, J.; Ji, X.; Jiang, L.; Jo, J.; Johnson, R.; Joshi, J.; Jwa, Y.; Karagiorgi, G.; Ketchum, W.; Kirby, B.; Kirby, M.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kreslo, I; Lepetic, 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.; Mason, K.; Mastbaum, A.; McConkey, N.; Meddage, V; Mettler, T.; Miller, K.; Mills, J.; Mistry, K.; Mogan, A.; Mohayai, T.; Moon, J.; Mooney, M.; Moore, C.; Mousseau, J.; Murphy, M.; Murrells, R.; Naples, D.; Neely, R.; Nienaber, P.; Nowak, J.; Palamara, O.; Pandey, V; Paolone, V; Papadopoulou, A.; Papavassiliou, V; Pate, S.; Paudel, A.; Pavlovic, Z.; Piasetzky, E.; Porzio, D.; Prince, S.; Pulliam, G.; Qian, X.; Raaf, Jl; Rafique, A.; Ren, L.; Rochester, L.; Rogers, H.; Ross-Lonergan, M.; von Rohr, C.; Russell, B.; Scanavini, G.; Schmitz, D.; Schukraft, A.; Seligman, W.; Shaevitz, M.; Sharankova, R.; Sinclair, J.; Smith, A.; Snider, E.; Soderberg, M.; Soldner-Rembold, S.; Soleti, Sr.; Spentzouris, P.; Spitz, J.; Stancari, M.; St John, J.; Strauss, T.; Sutton, K.; Sword-Fehlberg, S.; Szelc, A.; Tagg, N.; Tang, W.; Terao, K.; 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.; Williams, Z.; Wolbers, S.; Wongjirad, T.; Woodruff, K.; Wospakrik, M.; Wu, W.; Yang, T.; Yarbrough, G.; Yates, L.; Zeller, G.; Zennamo, J.; Zhang, C.

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/15/03/p03022

Calibration of the charge and energy loss per unit length of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using muons and protons

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

JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION, cilt.15, sa.3, 2020 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
Cilt numarası: 15 Sayı: 3
Basım Tarihi: 2020
Doi Numarası: 10.1088/1748-0221/15/03/p03022
Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Compendex, Index Islamicus, INSPEC
Anahtar Kelimeler: Calorimeters, dE/dx detectors, Neutrino detectors, Time projection chambers
Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

We describe a method used to calibrate the position- and time-dependent response of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber anode wires to ionization particle energy loss. The method makes use of crossing cosmic-ray muons to partially correct anode wire signals for multiple effects as a function of time and position, including cross-connected TPC wires, space charge effects, electron attachment to impurities, diffusion, and recombination. The overall energy scale is then determined using fully-contained beam-induced muons originating and stopping in the active region of the detector. Using this method, we obtain an absolute energy scale uncertainty of 2% in data. We use stopping protons to further refine the relation between the measured charge and the energy loss for highly-ionizing particles. This data-driven detector calibration improves both the measurement of total deposited energy and particle identification based on energy loss per unit length as a function of residual range. As an example, the proton selection efficiency is increased by 2% after detector calibration.