Test beam calibration of the MINERvA detector components
This memorandum outlines the plan for beam time at Fermilab during Fall and Winter 2008-2009 to test the MINERvA detector components. This memorandum is intended solely for the purpose of providing a work allocation for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the participating universities. It reflects an arrangement that is currently satisfactory to the parties involved. It is recognized, however, that changing circumstances of the evolving research program may necessitate revisions. The parties agree to negotiate amendments to this memorandum to reflect such revisions. The experimenters primary need is to calibrate the MINERvA scintillator response (visible energy) to protons, pions, and electrons, to measure the resolution, and to reduce and then estimate the bias on the calorimetric shower energy reconstruction for these particles. This MOU describes the details involved in achieving that, as well as other, secondary goals of the beam test. The experimenters require an upgrade of the test beam capabilities to enable a usable rate for particles, especially pions, with momentum as low as 200 MeV/c. Assistance from the Meson Test Beam group and Fermilab (along with some MINERvA personel) is required to complete this upgrade. The MINERvA experiment will make detailed neutrino nucleus cross section measurements over a range of energies (one to tens of GeV) and target nuclei (He, CH, C, Fe, Pb). This range is not yet explored completely or consistently, yet understanding these interactions is vital for current and upcoming neutrino oscillation experiments such as NOvA. MINERvA will systematically measure the detailed final states of low energy interactions, the calorimetric final states of higher energy interactions, and will be sensitive to how the cross sections evolve with the mass number A of the target nucleus as well as incident energy. In all cases, the reconstruction of pions and protons individually, as well as the total energy in hadronic showers, are vital to the MINERvA analysis goals.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1973950
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PROPOSAL-0977; oai:inspirehep.net:879053; TRN: US2403446
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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