Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE): Preliminary Results and Physics Phase Proposal
Abstract
The R&D mission of the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is described in detail. ANNIE is: (1) an important measurement of neutrino-nucleus interactions focusing specifically on neutron production, and (2) an R&D effort focused on using new photodetector technology and chemical additives to make advanced water-base neutrino detectors. The ANNIE experiment consists of a small Water Cherenkov detector, instrumented with both conventional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and Large Area Picosecond Photodetectors (LAPPDs) deployed on the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. The experiment is designed to proceed in two stages: a partially-instrumented test-beam run using only PMTs (Phase I) for the purpose of measuring critical neutron backgrounds to the experiment; and a physics run with a fully-instrumented detector (Phase II). This paper gives preliminary results of the first phase and described the detector design upgrades necessary for the next phase.
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@article{arxiv.1707.08222,
title = {Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE): Preliminary Results and Physics Phase Proposal},
author = {A. R. Back and J. F. Beacom and M. Bergevin and E. Catano-Mur and S. Dazeley and E. Drakopoulou and F. Di Lodovico and A. Elagin and J. Eisch and V. Fischer and S. Gardiner and R. Hatcher and J. He and R. Hill and T. Katori and F. Krennrich and R. Kreymer and M. Malek and C. L. McGivern and M. Needham and M. O'Flaherty and G. D. Orebi Gann and B. Richards and M. C. Sanchez and M. Smy and R. Svoboda and E. Tiras and M. Vagins and J. Wang and A. Weinstein and M. Wetstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08222},
year = {2017}
}
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Submitted to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Physics Advisory Committee