Cosmic Ray Backgrounds in an LBNE far detector on the Surface

Lisa Goodenough; Maury Goodman; Jon Paley; John Learned; Gavin Davies; Mayly Sanchez

Cosmic Ray Backgrounds in an LBNE far detector on the Surface

Instrumentation and Detectors 2012-06-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Authors: Lisa Goodenough , Maury Goodman , Jon Paley , John Learned , Gavin Davies , Mayly Sanchez

Abstract

A surface liquid Argon Far Detector for LBNE has formidable background issues from cosmic rays. There is no evidence they can be overcome.

Keywords

cosmic ray background LBNE liquid argon detector surface detector far detector background suppression

Cite

@article{arxiv.1206.3561,
  title  = {Cosmic Ray Backgrounds in an LBNE far detector on the Surface},
  author = {Lisa Goodenough and Maury Goodman and Jon Paley and John Learned and Gavin Davies and Mayly Sanchez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.3561},
  year   = {2012}
}