Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system
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MicroBooNE Collaboration
Ashkenazi, Adi
Carr, Rachel
Collin, G. H.
Conrad, Janet Marie
Diaz, Alejandro
Hen, Or
Hourlier, Adrien C.
Moon, Joongho
Papadopoulou, Afroditi
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Journal of Instrumentation
Publisher
IOP Publishing
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Original manuscript
Abstract
© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. 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.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/04/P04004
