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Janet M. Conrad.
Chiu, Christie Shinglei
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
2014-01-09T18:55:26Z
2014-01-09T18:55:26Z
2013
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83641
865477653
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2013.
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The neutrino experiment MicroBooNE is currently under construction. To expedite the physics output of MicroBooNE, a smaller version of its optical detection system has been implemented. To demonstrate full operability of this prototype, two physics measurements were performed. The first examines the number of scintillation light components, for although theory explains two components, other groups have seen evidence for a third. The second measures late light quenching as a function of nitrogen gas impurity concentration in the liquid argon. We nd marginal evidence for a third component and further steps are identified to improve upon this study. Our late light quenching measurement also agrees with previously published results in the literature. These two measurements are useful not only from a detector development standpoint, but also for detector simulations.
by Christie Shinglei Chiu.
S.B.
91 pages
eng
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