Pulse shape particle identification by a single large hemispherical photomultiplier tube
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Author(s)
Samani, S
Mandalia, S
Arguelles Delgado, Carlos A
Axani, Spencer Nicholas
Li, Y
Moulai, Marjon H.
Ty, B
Xie, Z
Conrad, Janet
Katori, T
Date Issued
2020
Journal
Journal of Instrumentation
Publisher
IOP Publishing
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
© 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab In neutrino experiments, hemispherical photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are often used to cover large surfaces or volumes to maximize the photocathode coverage with a minimum number of channels. Instrumentation is often coarse, and neutrino event reconstruction and particle identification (PID) is usually done through the morphology of PMT hits. In future neutrino experiments, it may be desirable to perform PID from a few hits, or even a single hit, by utilizing pulse shape information. In this report, we study the principle of pulse shape PID using a single 25.4 cm hemispherical PMT in a spherical glass housing for future neutrino telescopes. We use the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF) MTest beam line to demonstrate that with pulse shape PID, it is possible to statistically separate 2 GeV electrons from 8 GeV pions, where the total charge deposition is ~20 PE in our setup. Such techniques can be applied to future neutrino telescopes focusing on low-energy physics, including the IceCube-Upgrade.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/05/T05002
