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Title: Design and Operation of A Setup with A Camera and Adjustable Mirror to Inspect the Sense-Wire Planes of the Time Projection Chamber Inside the MicroBooNE Cryostat

Abstract

Detectors in particle physics, particularly when including cryogenic components, are often enclosed in vessels that do not provide any physical or visual access to the detectors themselves after installation. However, it can be desirable for experiments to visually investigate the inside of the vessel. The MicroBooNE cryostat hosts a TPC with sense-wire planes, which had to be inspected for damage such as breakage or sagging. This inspection was performed after the transportation of the vessel with the enclosed detector to its final location, but before filling with liquid argon. Our paper describes an approach to view the inside of the MicroBooNE cryostat with a setup of a camera and a mirror through one of its cryogenic service nozzles. The paper also describes the camera and mirror chosen for the operation, the illumination, and the mechanical structure of the setup. It explains how the system was operated and demonstrates its performance.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [3]
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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  2. Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
  3. Univ. Bern (Switzerland)
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Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1223223
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-15-293-ND
Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1507.02508
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Instrumentation
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: T08006; Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; time projection chambers (TPC); cryogenic detectors; detector design and construction technologies and materials

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Carls, Benjamin, Horton-Smith, Glenn, James, Catherine C., Kubinski, Robert M., Pordes, Stephen, Schukraft, Anne, and Strauss, Thomas. Design and Operation of A Setup with A Camera and Adjustable Mirror to Inspect the Sense-Wire Planes of the Time Projection Chamber Inside the MicroBooNE Cryostat. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/10/08/T08006.
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Carls, Benjamin, Horton-Smith, Glenn, James, Catherine C., Kubinski, Robert M., Pordes, Stephen, Schukraft, Anne, & Strauss, Thomas. Design and Operation of A Setup with A Camera and Adjustable Mirror to Inspect the Sense-Wire Planes of the Time Projection Chamber Inside the MicroBooNE Cryostat. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/08/T08006
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Carls, Benjamin, Horton-Smith, Glenn, James, Catherine C., Kubinski, Robert M., Pordes, Stephen, Schukraft, Anne, and Strauss, Thomas. Wed . "Design and Operation of A Setup with A Camera and Adjustable Mirror to Inspect the Sense-Wire Planes of the Time Projection Chamber Inside the MicroBooNE Cryostat". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/08/T08006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1223223.
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@article{osti_1223223,
title = {Design and Operation of A Setup with A Camera and Adjustable Mirror to Inspect the Sense-Wire Planes of the Time Projection Chamber Inside the MicroBooNE Cryostat},
author = {Carls, Benjamin and Horton-Smith, Glenn and James, Catherine C. and Kubinski, Robert M. and Pordes, Stephen and Schukraft, Anne and Strauss, Thomas},
abstractNote = {Detectors in particle physics, particularly when including cryogenic components, are often enclosed in vessels that do not provide any physical or visual access to the detectors themselves after installation. However, it can be desirable for experiments to visually investigate the inside of the vessel. The MicroBooNE cryostat hosts a TPC with sense-wire planes, which had to be inspected for damage such as breakage or sagging. This inspection was performed after the transportation of the vessel with the enclosed detector to its final location, but before filling with liquid argon. Our paper describes an approach to view the inside of the MicroBooNE cryostat with a setup of a camera and a mirror through one of its cryogenic service nozzles. The paper also describes the camera and mirror chosen for the operation, the illumination, and the mechanical structure of the setup. It explains how the system was operated and demonstrates its performance.},
doi = {10.1088/1748-0221/10/08/T08006},
journal = {Journal of Instrumentation},
number = T08006,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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Works referencing / citing this record:

Noise Characterization and Filtering in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC
journal, August 2017

Noise Characterization and Filtering in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC
text, January 2017

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