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Title: A Novel Cosmic Ray Tagger System for Liquid Argon TPC Neutrino Detectors

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  1. Univ. of Bern (Switzerland). Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Lab. for High Energy Physics
  2. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics
  3. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Dept. of Physics
  4. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
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The Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program aims to observe and reconstruct thousands of neutrino-argon interactions with its three detectors (SBND, MicroBooNE and ICARUS-T600), using their hundred of tonnes Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers to perform a rich physics analysis program, in particular focused in the search for sterile neutrinos. Given the relatively shallow depth of the detectors, the continuos flux of cosmic ray particles which crossing their volumes introduces a constant background which can be falsely identified as part of the event of interest. Here in this paper we present the Cosmic Ray Tagger (CRT) system, a novel technique to tag and identify these crossing particles using scintillation modules which measure their time and coordinates relative to events internal to the neutrino detector, mitigating therefore their effect in the event tracking reconstruction.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1350523
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1612.04614; FERMILAB-PUB-16-663-CD; 1503397
Journal Information:
Instruments, Vol. 1, Issue 1; ISSN 2410-390X
Publisher:
MDPICopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Multi-channel front-end board for SiPM readout text January 2016

Cited By (2)

Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system journal April 2019
Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system text January 2019

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