Baby MIND: A magnetized segmented neutrino detector for the WAGASCI experiment
Abstract
T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment in Japan designed to study various parameters of neutrino oscillations. A near detector complex (ND280) is located 280~m downstream of the production target and measures neutrino beam parameters before any oscillations occur. ND280's measurements are used to predict the number and spectra of neutrinos in the Super-Kamiokande detector at the distance of 295~km. The difference in the target material between the far (water) and near (scintillator, hydrocarbon) detectors leads to the main non-cancelling systematic uncertainty for the oscillation analysis. In order to reduce this uncertainty a new WAter-Grid-And-SCintillator detector (WAGASCI) has been developed. A magnetized iron neutrino detector (Baby MIND) will be used to measure momentum and charge identification of the outgoing muons from charged current interactions. The Baby MIND modules are composed of magnetized iron plates and long plastic scintillator bars read out at the both ends with wavelength shifting fibers and silicon photomultipliers. The front-end electronics board has been developed to perform the readout and digitization of the signals from the scintillator bars. Detector elements were tested with cosmic rays and in the PS beam at CERN. The obtained results are presented in this paper.
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@article{arxiv.1705.10406,
title = {Baby MIND: A magnetized segmented neutrino detector for the WAGASCI experiment},
author = {M. Antonova and R. Asfandiyarov and R. Bayes and P. Benoit and A. Blondel and M. Bogomilov and A. Bross and F. Cadoux and A. Cervera and N. Chikuma and A. Dudarev and T. Ekelöf and Y. Favre and S. Fedotov and S-P. Hallsjö and A. Izmaylov and Y. Karadzhov and M. Khabibullin and A. Khotyantsev and A. Kleymenova and T. Koga and A. Kostin and Y. Kudenko and V. Likhacheva and B. Martinez and R. Matev and M. Medvedeva and A. Mefodiev and A. Minamino and O. Mineev and M. Nessi and L. Nicola and E. Noah and T. Ovsiannikova and H. Pais Da Silva and S. Parsa and M. Rayner and G. Rolando and A. Shaykhiev and P. Simion and F. J. P. Soler and S. Suvorov and R. Tsenov and H. Ten Kate and G. Vankova-Kirilova and N. Yershov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10406},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
In new version: modified both plots of Fig.1 and added one sentence in the introduction part explaining Baby MIND role in WAGASCI experiment, added information for the affiliations