Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system
Abstract
The MicroBooNE detector utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) with an 85 t active mass to study neutrino interactions along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. With a deployment location near ground level, the detector records many cosmic muon tracks in each beam-related detector trigger that can be misidentified as signals of interest. To reduce these cosmogenic backgrounds, we have designed and constructed a TPC-external Cosmic Ray Tagger (CRT). This sub-system was developed by the Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Albert Einstein center for fundamental physics, University of Bern. The system utilizes plastic scintillation modules to provide precise time and position information for TPC-traversing particles. Successful matching of TPC tracks and CRT data will allow us to reduce cosmogenic background and better characterize the light collection system and LArTPC data using cosmic muons. In this paper we describe the design and installation of the MicroBooNE CRT system and provide an overview of a series of tests done to verify the proper operation of the system and its components during installation, commissioning, and physics data-taking.
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@article{arxiv.1901.02862,
title = {Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system},
author = {MicroBooNE collaboration and C. Adams and M. Alrashed and R. An and J. Anthony and J. Asaadi and A. Ashkenazi and M. Auger and S. Balasubramanian and B. Baller and C. Barnes and G. Barr and M. Bass and F. Bay and A. Bhat and K. Bhattacharya and M. Bishai and A. Blake and T. Bolton and L. Camilleri and D. Caratelli and I. Caro Terrazas and R. Carr and R. Castillo Fernandez and F. Cavanna and G. Cerati and Y. Chen and E. Church and D. Cianci and E. O. Cohen and G. H. Collin and J. M. Conrad and M. Convery and L. Cooper-Troendle and J. I. Crespo-Anadon and M. Del Tutto and D. Devitt and A. Diaz and K. Duffy and S. Dytman and B. Eberly and A. Ereditato and L. Escudero Sanchez and J. Esquivel and J. J. Evans and A. A. Fadeeva and R. S. Fitzpatrick and B. T. Fleming and D. Franco and A. P. Furmanski and D. Garcia-Gamez and G. T. Garvey and V. Genty and D. Goeldi and S. Gollapinni and O. Goodwin and E. Gramellini and H. Greenlee and R. Grosso and R. Guenette and P. Guzowski and A. Hackenburg and P. Hamilton and O. Hen and V Hewes and C. Hill and G. A. Horton-Smith and A. Hourlier and E. -C. Huang and C. James and J. Jan de Vries and L. Jiang and R. A. Johnson and J. Joshi and H. Jostlein and Y. -J. Jwa and G. Karagiorgi and W. Ketchum and B. Kirby and M. Kirby and T. Kobilarcik and I. Kreslo and I. Lepetic and Y. Li and A. Lister and B. R. Littlejohn and S. Lockwitz and D. Lorca and W. C. Louis and M. Luethi and B. Lundberg and X. Luo and A. Marchionni and S. Marcocci and C. Mariani and J. Marshall and J. Martin-Albo and D. A. Martinez Caicedo and A. Mastbaum and V. Meddage and T. Mettler and G. B. Mills and K. Mistry and A. Mogan and J. Moon and M. Mooney and C. D. Moore and J. Mousseau and M. Murphy and R. Murrells and D. Naples and P. Nienaber and J. Nowak and O. Palamara and V. Pandey and V. Paolone and A. Papadopoulou and V. Papavassiliou and S. F. Pate and Z. Pavlovic and E. Piasetzky and D. Porzio and G. Pulliam and X. Qian and J. L. Raaf and A. Rafique and L. Rochester and M. Ross-Lonergan and C. Rudolf von Rohr and B. Russell and D. W. Schmitz and A. Schukraft and W. Seligman and M. H. Shaevitz and R. Sharankova and J. Sinclair and A. Smith and E. L. Snider and M. Soderberg and S. Soldner-Rembold and S. R. Soleti and P. Spentzouris and J. Spitz and J. St. John and T. Strauss and K. Sutton and S. Sword-Fehlberg and A. M. Szelc and N. Tagg and W. Tang and K. Terao and M. Thomson and R. T. Thornton and M. Toups and Y. -T. Tsai and S. Tufanli and T. Usher and W. Van De Pontseele and R. G. Van de Water and B. Viren and M. Weber and H. Wei and D. A. Wickremasinghe and K. Wierman and Z. Williams and S. Wolbers and T. Wongjirad and K. Woodruff and T. Yang and G. Yarbrough and L. E. Yates and G. P. Zeller and J. Zennamo and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.02862},
year = {2023}
}