Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system

Journal Article · Mon Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Journal of Instrumentation

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/04/P04004· OSTI ID:1506629

Adams, C.; Alrashed, M.; An, R.; Anthony, J.; Asaadi, J.; Ashkenazi, A.; Auger, M.; Balasubramanian, S.; Baller, B.; Barnes, C.; Barr, G.; Bass, M.; Bay, F.; Bhat, A.; Bhattacharya, K.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bolton, T.; Camilleri, L.; Caratelli, D. ; Terrazas, I. Caro; Carr, R.; Fernandez, R. Castillo; Cavanna, F.; Cerati, G.; Chen, Y.; Church, E.; Cianci, D.; Cohen, E.; Collin, G. H.; Conrad, J. M.; Convery, M.; Cooper-Troendle, L.; Crespo-Anadón, J. I.; Tutto, M. Del; Devitt, D.; Diaz, A.; Duffy, K.; Dytman, S.; Eberly, B.; Ereditato, A.; Sanchez, L. Escudero; Esquivel, J.; Evans, J. J.; Fadeeva, A. A.; Fitzpatrick, R. S.; Fleming, B. T.; Franco, D.; Furmanski, A. P.; Garcia-Gamez, D.; Garvey, G. T.; Genty, V.; Goeldi, D.; Gollapinni, S.; Goodwin, O.; Gramellini, E.; Greenlee, H.; Grosso, R.; Guenette, R.; Guzowski, P.; Hackenburg, A.; Hamilton, P.; Hen, O.; Hewes, J.; Hill, C.; Horton-Smith, G. A.; Hourlier, A.; Huang, E. -C.; James, C.; de Vries, J. Jan; Jiang, L.; Johnson, R. A.; Joshi, J.; Jostlein, H.; Jwa, Y. -J.; Karagiorgi, G.; Ketchum, W.; Kirby, B.; Kirby, M.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kreslo, I.; Li, Y.; Lister, A.; Littlejohn, B. R.; Lockwitz, S.; Lorca, D.; Louis, W. C.; Luethi, M.; Lundberg, B.; Luo, X.; Marchionni, A.; Marcocci, S.; Mariani, C.; Marshall, J.; Martin-Albo, J.; Caicedo, D. A. Martinez; Mastbaum, A.; Meddage, V.; Mettler, T.; Mills, G. B.; Mistry, K.; Mogan, A.; Moon, J.; Mooney, M.; Moore, C. D.; Mousseau, J.; Murphy, M.; Murrells, R.; Naples, D.; Nienaber, P.; Nowak, J.; Palamara, O.; Pandey, V.; Paolone, V.; Papadopoulou, A.; Papavassiliou, V.; Pate, S. F.; Pavlovic, Z.; Piasetzky, E.; Porzio, D.; Pulliam, G.; Qian, X.; Raaf, J. L.; Rafique, A.; Rochester, L.; Ross-Lonergan, M.; Rohr, C. Rudolf von; Russell, B.; Schmitz, D. W.; Schukraft, A.; Seligman, W.; Shaevitz, M. H.; Sharankova, R.; Sinclair, J.; Smith, A.; Snider, E. L.; Soderberg, M.; Söldner-Rembold, S.; Soleti, S. R.; Spentzouris, P.; Spitz, J.; John, J. St.; Strauss, T.; Sutton, K.; Sword-Fehlberg, S.; Szelc, A. M.; Tagg, N.; Tang, W.; Terao, K.; Thomson, M.; Thornton, R. T.; Toups, M.; Tsai, Y. -T.; Tufanli, S.; Usher, T.; Pontseele, W. Van De; de Water, R. G. Van; Viren, B.; Weber, M.; Wei, H.; Wickremasinghe, D. A.; Wierman, K.; Williams, Z.; Wolbers, S.; Wongjirad, T.; Woodruff, K.; Yang, T.; Yarbrough, G.; Yates, L. E.; Zeller, G. P.; Zennamo, J.; Zhang, C.

The MicroBooNE detector utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) with an 85 t active mass to study neutrino interactions along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. With a deployment location near ground level, the detector records many cosmic muon tracks in each beam-related detector trigger that can be misidentified as signals of interest. To reduce these cosmogenic backgrounds, we have designed and constructed a TPC-external Cosmic Ray Tagger (CRT). This sub-system was developed by the Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Albert Einstein center for fundamental physics, University of Bern. The system utilizes plastic scintillation modules to provide precise time and position information for TPC-traversing particles. Successful matching of TPC tracks and CRT data will allow us to reduce cosmogenic background and better characterize the light collection system and LArTPC data using cosmic muons. In this paper we describe the design and installation of the MicroBooNE CRT system and provide an overview of a series of tests done to verify the proper operation of the system and its components during installation, commissioning, and physics data-taking.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• Contributing Organization: MicroBooNE collaboration; MicroBooNE
• Grant/Contract Number: SC0012704; AC02-07CH11359; SC0007859; SC0008347
• OSTI ID: 1506629
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1510810; OSTI ID: 1638591
• Report Number(s): BNL-211531-2019-JAAM; FERMILAB-PUB-18-678-ND; arXiv:1901.02862
• Journal Information: Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 14, Issue 04; ISSN 1748-0221
• Publisher: Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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