Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of instrumentation 2019-04, Vol.14 (4), p.P04004-P04004
Hauptverfasser:	Adams, C., 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. Caro, Carr, R., Fernandez, R. Castillo, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Church, E., Cianci, D., Cohen, E., Collin, G.H., Conrad, J.M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J.I., Tutto, M. Del, Devitt, D., Diaz, A., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Sanchez, L. Escudero, Esquivel, J., Evans, J. J, Fadeeva, A.A., Fitzpatrick, R.S., Fleming, B.T., Franco, D., Furmanski, A.P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Garvey, G.T., Genty, V., Goeldi, D., Gollapinni, 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.A., Hourlier, A., Huang, E.-C., James, C., de Vries, J. Jan, Jiang, L., Johnson, R.A., 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.R., Lockwitz, S., Lorca, D., Louis, W.C., Luethi, M., Lundberg, B., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Marcocci, S., Mariani, C., Marshall, J., Martin-Albo, J., Caicedo, D.A. Martinez, Mastbaum, A., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Mills, G.B.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Argon Cosmic Cosmic rays Ground level INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LArTPC MicroBooNE Muons Neutrino beams Neutrinos Physics PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS Radiation counters Ray Sensors Tagger
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
ISSN:	1748-0221 1748-0221
DOI:	10.1088/1748-0221/14/04/P04004