The magnetized steel and scintillator calorimeters of the MINOS experiment

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UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO
Data(s)

20/10/2012

20/10/2012

2008
Resumo

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment uses an accelerator-produced neutrino beam to perform precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters in the ""atmospheric neutrino"" sector associated with muon neutrino disappearance. This long-baseline experiment measures neutrino interactions in Fermilab`s NuMI neutrino beam with a near detector at Fermilab and again 735 km downstream with a far detector in the Soudan Underground Laboratory in northern Minnesota. The two detectors are magnetized steel-scintillator tracking calorimeters. They are designed to be as similar as possible in order to ensure that differences in detector response have minimal impact on the comparisons of event rates, energy spectra and topologies that are essential to MINOS measurements of oscillation parameters. The design, construction, calibration and performance of the far and near detectors are described in this paper. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

U.K. Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

U.K. Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

State and University of Minnesota

State and University of Minnesota

FAPESP (Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico) in Brazil
Identificador

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, v.596, n.2, p.190-228, 2008

0168-9002

http://producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/29149

10.1016/j.nima.2008.08.003

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2008.08.003
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eng
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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
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Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
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Palavras-Chave #Detectors: neutrino #Detectors: scintillator #Calorimeters: tracking #Extruded plastic scintillator #FRONT-END ELECTRONICS #INJECTION CALIBRATION SYSTEM #LONG-BASE-LINE #RABBIT SYSTEM #FAR DETECTOR #OSCILLATION #RANGE #PHOTOMULTIPLIERS #PERFORMANCE #FIBERS #Instruments & Instrumentation #Nuclear Science & Technology #Physics, Particles & Fields #Spectroscopy
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