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The JUNO experiment Top Tracker

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2023-10-02 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

The main task of the Top Tracker detector of the neutrino reactor experiment Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is to reconstruct and extrapolate atmospheric muon tracks down to the central detector. This muon tracker will help to evaluate the contribution of the cosmogenic background to the signal. The Top Tracker is located above JUNO's water Cherenkov Detector and Central Detector, covering about 60% of the surface above them. The JUNO Top Tracker is constituted by the decommissioned OPERA experiment Target Tracker modules. The technology used consists in walls of two planes of plastic scintillator strips, one per transverse direction. Wavelength shifting fibres collect the light signal emitted by the scintillator strips and guide it to both ends where it is read by multianode photomultiplier tubes. Compared to the OPERA Target Tracker, the JUNO Top Tracker uses new electronics able to cope with the high rate produced by the high rock radioactivity compared to the one in Gran Sasso underground laboratory. This paper will present the new electronics and mechanical structure developed for the Top Tracker of JUNO along with its expected performance based on the current detector simulation.

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@article{arxiv.2303.05172,
  title  = {The JUNO experiment Top Tracker},
  author = {JUNO Collaboration and Angel Abusleme and Thomas Adam and Shakeel Ahmad and Rizwan Ahmed and Sebastiano Aiello and Muhammad Akram and Abid Aleem and Tsagkarakis Alexandros and Fengpeng An and Qi An and Giuseppe Andronico and Nikolay Anfimov and Vito Antonelli and Tatiana Antoshkina and Burin Asavapibhop and João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André and Didier Auguste and Weidong Bai and Nikita Balashov and Wander Baldini and Andrea Barresi and Davide Basilico and Eric Baussan and Marco Bellato and Marco Beretta and Antonio Bergnoli and Daniel Bick and Thilo Birkenfeld and Sylvie Blin and David Blum and Simon Blyth and Anastasia Bolshakova and Mathieu Bongrand and Clément Bordereau and Dominique Breton and Augusto Brigatti and Riccardo Brugnera and Riccardo Bruno and Antonio Budano and Jose Busto and Anatael Cabrera and Barbara Caccianiga and Hao Cai and Xiao Cai and Yanke Cai and Zhiyan Cai and Stéphane Callier and Antonio Cammi and Agustin Campeny and Chuanya Cao and Guofu Cao and Jun Cao and Rossella Caruso and Cédric Cerna and Vanessa Cerrone and Chi Chan and Jinfan Chang and Yun Chang and Chao Chen and Guoming Chen and Pingping Chen and Shaomin Chen and Yixue Chen and Yu Chen and Zhiyuan Chen and Zikang Chen and Jie Cheng and Yaping Cheng and Yu Chin Cheng and Alexander Chepurnov and Alexey Chetverikov and Davide Chiesa and Pietro Chimenti and Ziliang Chu and Artem Chukanov and Gérard Claverie and Catia Clementi and Barbara Clerbaux and Marta Colomer Molla and Selma Conforti Di Lorenzo and Alberto Coppi and Daniele Corti and Flavio Dal Corso and Olivia Dalager and Christophe De La Taille and Zhi Deng and Ziyan Deng and Wilfried Depnering and Marco Diaz and Xuefeng Ding and Yayun Ding and Bayu Dirgantara and Sergey Dmitrievsky and Tadeas Dohnal and Dmitry Dolzhikov and Georgy Donchenko and Jianmeng Dong and Evgeny Doroshkevich and Wei Dou and Marcos Dracos and Olivier Drapier and Frédéric Druillole and Ran Du and Shuxian Du and Katherine Dugas and Stefano 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  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.05172},
  year   = {2023}
}

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