Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system

Auger, Martin; Chen, Yifan; Ereditato, Antonio; Göldi, Damian; Kreslo, Igor; Lüthi, Matthias; Mettler, Thomas; Rudolf von Rohr, Christoph; Weber, Michael (2019). Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system. Journal of instrumentation, 14(04), P04004-P04004. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1748-0221/14/04/P04004

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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.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

UniBE Contributor:

Auger, Martin, Chen, Yifan, Ereditato, Antonio, Göldi, Damian, Kreslo, Igor, Lüthi, Matthias (A), Mettler, Thomas Josua, Rudolf von Rohr, Christoph, Weber, Michele

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1748-0221

Publisher:

Institute of Physics Publishing IOP

Language:

English

Submitter:

BORIS Import LHEP

Date Deposited:

16 Jun 2020 16:07

Last Modified:

29 Mar 2023 23:37

Publisher DOI:

10.1088/1748-0221/14/04/P04004

Additional Information:

Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner AutorInnen namentlich erwaehnt; The MicroBooNE Collaboration

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.143609

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/143609

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