ArgoNeuT, a liquid argon time projection chamber in a low energy neutrino beam
Abstract
ArgoNeuT (Argon Neutrino Test), a NSF/DOE project at Fermilab, is the first LArTPC to go in a low energy neutrino beam and just the second LArTPC to go in a neutrino beam ever. ArgoNeuT sits just upstream of the on-axis MINOS near detector in the NuMI beamline, about 1 km from the target station and 100 m underground. The detector features a 47X40X90 cm (169 L) active volume TPC with a fully contained recirculation and purification system. Among other physics, ArgoNeuT will measure the charged-current quasi-elastic (anti-) neutrino cross section on argon at an energy of ~3 GeV.
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@article{arxiv.0910.2650,
title = {ArgoNeuT, a liquid argon time projection chamber in a low energy neutrino beam},
author = {Joshua Spitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.2650},
year = {2010}
}
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3 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2009), Rome, Italy, 1-5 July 2009