The SuperFGD Prototype Charged Particle Beam Tests
Abstract
A novel scintillator detector, the SuperFGD, has been selected as the main neutrino target for an upgrade of the T2K experiment ND280 near detector. The detector design will allow nearly 4{\pi} coverage for neutrino interactions at the near detector and will provide lower energy thresholds, significantly reducing systematic errors for the experiment. The SuperFGD is made of optically-isolated scintillator cubes of size 10x10x10 mm^3, providing the required spatial and energy resolution to reduce systematic uncertainties for future T2K runs. The SuperFGD for T2K will have close to two million cubes in a 1920x560x1840 mm^3 volume. A prototype made of 24x8x48 cubes was tested at a charged particle beamline at the CERN PS facility. The SuperFGD Prototype was instrumented with readout electronics similar to the future implementation for T2K. Results on electronics and detector response are reported in this paper, along with a discussion of the 3D reconstruction capabilities of this type of detector. Several physics analyses with the prototype data are also discussed, including a study of stopping protons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2008.08861,
title = {The SuperFGD Prototype Charged Particle Beam Tests},
author = {A. Blondel and M. Bogomilov and S. Bordoni and F. Cadoux and D. Douqa and K. Dugas and T. Ekelof and Y. Favre and S. Fedotov and K. Fransson and R. Fujita and E. Gramstad and A. K. Ichikawa and S. Ilieva and K. Iwamoto and C. Jesus-Valls and C. K. Jung and S. P. Kasetti and M. Khabibullin and A. Khotjantsev and A. Korzenev and A. Kostin and Y. Kudenko and T. Kutter and T. Lux and L. Maret and T. Matsubara and A. Mefodiev and A. Minamino and O. Mineev and G. Mitev and M. Nessi and L. Nicola and E. Noah and S. Parsa and G. Petkov and F. Sanchez and D. Sgalaberna and W. Shorrock and K. Skwarczynski and S. Suvorov and A. Teklu and R. Tsenov and Y. Uchida and G. Vankova-Kirilova and N. Yershov and M. Yokoyama and J. Zalipska and Y. Zou and W. Zurek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.08861},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
36 pages, 29 figures, Edited acknowledgements