The LArIAT experiment at Fermilab

Nutini, Irene

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/689/1/012020

Title: The LArIAT experiment at Fermilab

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The LArIAT experiment at Fermilab is part of the International Neutrino program recently approved in the US. LArIAT aims to measure the main features of charged particles interactions in argon in the energy range (0.2 - 2.0 GeV) corresponding to the energy spectrum of the same particles when produced in a neutrino-argon interaction (neutrino energies of few GeV) typical of the short- and long-baseline neutrino beams of the Neutrino Program. Data collected from the 1^st Run are being analyzed for both Physics studies and a technical characterization of the scintillation light collection system. Furthermore, two analysis topics are reported: the method developed for charged pion cross section measurement, based on the specific features of the LArTPC, and the development and test of the LArIAT custom-designed cold front-end electronics for SiPM devices to collect LAr scintillation light.

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Nutini, Irene ^[1]

Univ. degli Studi di Firenze - Piazza di San Marco, Firenze (Italy); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); GSSI _ Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy)

Publication Date:: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2016

Research Org.:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Org.:: LArIAT Collaboration

OSTI Identifier:: 1331788

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-CONF-16-515-ND
Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588; 1426427

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Physics. Conference Series

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 689; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588

Publisher:: IOP Publishing

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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  title        = {The LArIAT experiment at Fermilab},

  author       = {Nutini, Irene},

  abstractNote = {The LArIAT experiment at Fermilab is part of the International Neutrino program recently approved in the US. LArIAT aims to measure the main features of charged particles interactions in argon in the energy range (0.2 - 2.0 GeV) corresponding to the energy spectrum of the same particles when produced in a neutrino-argon interaction (neutrino energies of few GeV) typical of the short- and long-baseline neutrino beams of the Neutrino Program. Data collected from the 1st Run are being analyzed for both Physics studies and a technical characterization of the scintillation light collection system. Furthermore, two analysis topics are reported: the method developed for charged pion cross section measurement, based on the specific features of the LArTPC, and the development and test of the LArIAT custom-designed cold front-end electronics for SiPM devices to collect LAr scintillation light.},

  doi          = {10.1088/1742-6596/689/1/012020},

  journal      = {Journal of Physics. Conference Series},

  number       = 1,

  volume       = 689,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2016},

  month        = {Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2016}

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