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Title: A First Look at Data from the NO$$\nu$$A Upward-Going Muon Trigger

Abstract

The NO$$\nu$$A collaboration has constructed a 14,000 ton, fine-grained, low-Z, total absorption tracking calorimeter at an off-axis angle to an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam. This detector, with its excellent granularity and energy resolution and relatively low-energy neutrino thresholds, was designed to observe electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam, but it also has unique capabilities suitable for more exotic efforts. In fact, if sufficient cosmic ray background rejection can be demonstrated, NO$$\nu$$A will be capable of a competitive indirect dark matter search for low-mass Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The cosmic ray muon rate at the NO$$\nu$$A far detector is approximately 100 kHz and provides the primary challenge for triggering and optimizing such a search analysis. The status of the NO$$\nu$$A upward-going muon trigger and a first look at the triggered sample is presented.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [2];  [1]
  1. Virginia U.
  2. Fermilab
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1250490
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-15-474-E-ND-PPD; arXiv:1511.00155
1402333
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Meeting of the APS Division of Particles and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 08/04-08/08/2015
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Mina, R., Culbertson, E., Frank, M. J., Group, R. C., Norman, A., and Oksuzian, I. A First Look at Data from the NO$\nu$A Upward-Going Muon Trigger. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
Mina, R., Culbertson, E., Frank, M. J., Group, R. C., Norman, A., & Oksuzian, I. A First Look at Data from the NO$\nu$A Upward-Going Muon Trigger. United States.
Mina, R., Culbertson, E., Frank, M. J., Group, R. C., Norman, A., and Oksuzian, I. 2015. "A First Look at Data from the NO$\nu$A Upward-Going Muon Trigger". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1250490.
@article{osti_1250490,
title = {A First Look at Data from the NO$\nu$A Upward-Going Muon Trigger},
author = {Mina, R. and Culbertson, E. and Frank, M. J. and Group, R. C. and Norman, A. and Oksuzian, I.},
abstractNote = {The NO$\nu$A collaboration has constructed a 14,000 ton, fine-grained, low-Z, total absorption tracking calorimeter at an off-axis angle to an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam. This detector, with its excellent granularity and energy resolution and relatively low-energy neutrino thresholds, was designed to observe electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam, but it also has unique capabilities suitable for more exotic efforts. In fact, if sufficient cosmic ray background rejection can be demonstrated, NO$\nu$A will be capable of a competitive indirect dark matter search for low-mass Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The cosmic ray muon rate at the NO$\nu$A far detector is approximately 100 kHz and provides the primary challenge for triggering and optimizing such a search analysis. The status of the NO$\nu$A upward-going muon trigger and a first look at the triggered sample is presented.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
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