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Title: CHerenkov detectors In mine PitS (CHIPS) Letter of Intent to FNAL

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1342789· OSTI ID:1342789
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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth, MN (United States)
  3. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
  4. Tufts Univ., Medford, MA (United States)
  5. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  6. Univ. of Manchester (United Kingdom)
  7. Univ. College London, London (United Kingdom)
  8. Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)
  9. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  10. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States)
  11. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
  12. Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  13. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  14. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  15. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  16. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
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This Letter of Intent outlines a proposal to build a large, yet cost-effective, 100 kton fiducial mass water Cherenkov detector that will initially run in the NuMI beam line. The CHIPS detector (CHerenkov detector In Mine PitS) will be deployed in a flooded mine pit, removing the necessity and expense of a substantial external structure capable of supporting a large detector mass. There are a number of mine pits in northern Minnesota along the NuMI beam that could be used to deploy such a detector. In particular, the Wentworth Pit 2W is at the ideal off-axis angle to contribute to the measurement of the CP violating phase. The detector is designed so that it can be moved to a mine pit in the LBNE beam line once that becomes operational.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1342789
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1307.5918; FERMILAB-PROPOSAL-1051; 1244123
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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