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Title: Ionization electron signal processing in single phase LArTPCs. Part II. Data/simulation comparison and performance in MicroBooNE

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
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The single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) provides a large amount of detailed information in the form of fine-grained drifted ionization charge from particle traces. To fully utilize this information, the deposited charge must be accurately extracted from the raw digitized waveforms via a robust signal processing chain. Enabled by the ultra-low noise levels associated with cryogenic electronics in the MicroBooNE detector, the precise extraction of ionization charge from the induction wire planes in a single-phase LArTPC is qualitatively demonstrated on MicroBooNE data with event display images, and quantitatively demonstrated via waveform-level and track-level metrics. Improved performance of induction plane calorimetry is demonstrated through the agreement of extracted ionization charge measurements across different wire planes for various event topologies. In addition to the comprehensive waveform-level comparison of data and simulation, a calibration of the cryogenic electronics response is presented and solutions to various MicroBooNE-specific TPC issues are discussed. This work presents an important improvement in LArTPC signal processing, the foundation of reconstruction and therefore physics analyses in MicroBooNE.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); 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); 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); National Science Foundation (NSF); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); The Royal Society (United Kingdom); Univ. of Bern (Switzerland). Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
Contributing Organization:
MicroBooNE Collaboration; MicroBooNE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; AC02-07CH11359; SC0007881; SC0007859; SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1461823
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1437297; OSTI ID: 1456885; OSTI ID: 1638345; OSTI ID: 1784092
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-18-096-ND; arXiv:1804.02583; BNL-205782-2018-JAAM; TRN: US1902050
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 13, Issue 07; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 35 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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