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The Continuous Readout Stream of the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber for Detection of Supernova Burst Neutrinos

The MicroBooNE continuous readout stream is a parallel readout of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) which enables detection of non-beam events such as those from a supernova neutrino burst. The low energies of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-12 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , M. Alrashed , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , V. Basque , L. Bathe-Peters , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. O. Cohen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , R. Diurba , L. Domine , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. J. Evans , A. A. Fadeeva , G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , E. Hall , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. C. Huang , R. Itay , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , N. Kamp , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , R. LaZur , I. Lepetic , K. Li , Y. Li , B. R. Littlejohn , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , S. Marcocci , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , J. Martin-Albo , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , R. K. Neely , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , A. Paudel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , I. Ponce-Pinto , D. Porzio , S. Prince , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , H. E. Rogers , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , B. Russell , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , R. T. Thornton , C. Thorpe , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , W. Wu , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Free electron lifetime achievements in Liquid Argon Imaging TPC

A key feature for the success of the liquid Argon imaging TPC (LAr-TPC) technology is the industrial purification against electro-negative impurities, especially Oxygen and Nitrogen remnants, which have to be continuously kept at an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-20 B. Baibussinov , M. Baldo Ceolin , E. Calligarich , S. Centro , K. Cieslik , C. Farnese , A. Fava , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , G. Meng , F. Pietropaolo , C. Rubbia , F. Varanini , S. Ventura

Space-point calibration of the ALICE TPC with track residuals

In the upcoming LHC Run 3, starting in 2021, the upgraded Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of the ALICE experiment will record minimum bias Pb-Pb collisions in a continuous readout mode at an interaction rate up to 50 kHz. This corresponds to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Marten Ole Schmidt

Next-generation HPC models for future rotorcraft applications

Rotorcraft technologies pose great scientific and industrial challenges for numerical computing. As available computational resources approach the exascale, finer scales and therefore more accurate simulations of engineering test cases…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nicoletta Sanguini , Tommaso Benacchio , Daniele Malacrida , Federico Cipolletta , Francesco Rondina , Antonio Sciarappa , Luigi Capone

Performance study of the effective gain of the double phase liquid Argon LEM Time Projection Chamber

The Large Electron Multipliers (LEMs) are key components of double phase liquid argon TPCs. The drifting charges after being extracted from the liquid are amplified in the LEM positioned half a centimeter above the liquid in pure argon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Cantini , L. Epprecht , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , L. Periale , S. Murphy , G. Natterer , C. Regenfus , F. Resnati , F. Sergiampietri , A. Rubbia , T. Viant , S. Wu

A 260-Liter Test Stand for Liquid Argon R&D

We describe the design and performance of a 260-liter liquid argon (LAr) cryogenic test stand for liquid argon detector research and development at BNL. The system uses gas-phase argon purification with continuous pump-free circulation, in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-23 Yichen Li , Aleksey Bolotnikov , Milind Diwan , Jay Hyun Jo , Steven Kettell , Steven Linden , Xin Qian , Matteo Vicenzi , Chao Zhang

TPB-coated Light Guides for Liquid Argon TPC Light Detection Systems

Light detection systems in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) require the detection of the 128 nm light produced during argon scintillation. Most detectors use Tetraphenyl Butadiene (TPB) to shift the wavelength of the light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 C. M. Ignarra

Vertex-Finding and Reconstruction of Contained Two-track Neutrino Events in the MicroBooNE Detector

We describe algorithms developed to isolate and accurately reconstruct two-track events that are contained within the MicroBooNE detector. This method is optimized to reconstruct two tracks of lengths longer than 5 cm. This code has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , M. Alrashed , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , V. Basque , L. Bathe-Peters , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. O. Cohen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , L. Domine , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. J. Evans , G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , E. Hall , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , C. Hill , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. C. Huang , R. Itay , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , R. LaZur , I. Lepetic , K. Li , Y. Li , A. Lister , B. R. Littlejohn , S. Lockwitz , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , M. Luethi , B. Lundberg , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , S. Marcocci , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , J. Martin-Albo , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , D. Naples , R. K. Neely , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Pandey , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , A. Paudel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , I. Ponce-Pinto , D. Porzio , S. Prince , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , H. E. Rogers , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , R. T. Thornton , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , D. A. Wickremasinghe , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , W. Wu , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Numerical study of space charge electric field inside Resistive Plate Chamber

Resistive plate chamber (RPC) is one of the state-of-the-art particle detection technology for the High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. The basic operating mechanism of an RPC involves ionization of gas due to the passage of charged…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Tanay Dey , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Subhasis Chattopadhyay , Jhilam Sadukan

Q-Pix: Pixel-scale Signal Capture for Kiloton Liquid Argon TPC Detectors: Time-to-Charge Waveform Capture, Local Clocks, Dynamic Networks

We describe a novel ionization signal capture and waveform digitization scheme for kiloton-scale liquid argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detectors. The scheme is based on a pixel-scale self-triggering `charge integrate/reset' block,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-28 David Nygren , Yuan Mei

Robust Rational Polynomial Camera Modelling for SAR and Pushbroom Imaging

The Rational Polynomial Camera (RPC) model can be used to describe a variety of image acquisition systems in remote sensing, notably optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors. RPC functions relate 3D to 2D coordinates and vice…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-17 Roland Akiki , Roger Marí , Carlo de Franchis , Jean-Michel Morel , Gabriele Facciolo

Michel Electron Reconstruction Using Cosmic-Ray Data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC

The MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) has been taking data at Fermilab since 2015 collecting, in addition to neutrino beam, cosmic-ray muons. Results are presented on the reconstruction of Michel electrons produced by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-17 MicroBooNE collaboration , R. Acciarri , C. Adams , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , M. Auger , L. Bagby , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , M. Bass , F. Bay , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Bugel , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , B. Carls , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , H. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. Cohen , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , G. T. Garvey , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , N. Graf , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , A. Hackenburg , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , V Hewes , C. Hill , J. Ho , G. Horton-Smith , E. -C. Huang , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , C. -M. Jen , L. Jiang , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , D. Kaleko , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , A. Laube , Y. Li , A. Lister , B. R. Littlejohn , S. Lockwitz , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , M. Luethi , B. Lundberg , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , V. Meddage , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , R. Murrells , D. Naples , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , D. Porzio , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , A. Rafique , L. Rochester , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , J. Sinclair , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. A. Sutton , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , K. Terao , M. Thomson , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , T. Usher , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , D. A. Wickremasinghe , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , T. Yang , L. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

First Demonstration of Imaging Cosmic Muons in a Two-Phase Liquid Argon TPC using an EMCCD Camera and a THGEM

Colossal two-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LAr TPCs) are a proposed option for future long-baseline neutrino experiments. This study illustrates the feasibility of using an EMCCD camera to capture light induced by single…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-28 K. Mavrokoridis , J. Carroll , K. J. McCormick , P. Paudyal , A. Roberts , N. A. Smith , C. Touramanis

Accelerator-based Short-baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Over the last two decades, several experiments have reported anomalous results that could be hinting at the exciting possibility of sterile neutrino states in the $eV^{2}$ mass scale. Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Sowjanya Gollapinni

A Light Calibration System for the ProtoDUNE-DP Detector

A LED-based fiber calibration system for the ProtoDUNE-Dual Phase (DP) photon detection system (PDS) has been designed and validated. ProtoDUNE-DP is a 6x6x6 m3 liquid argon time-projection-chamber currently being installed at the Neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-22 D. Belver , J. Boix , E. Calvo , C. Cuesta , A. Gallego-Ros , I. Gil-Botella , S. Jiménez , C. Lastoria , T. Lux , I. Martín , J. J. Martínez , C. Palomares , D. Redondo , J. Soto-Oton , D. Vargas , A. Verdugo

Prospect for Charge Current Neutrino Interactions Measurements at the CERN-PS

Tensions in several phenomenological models grew with experimental results on neutrino/antineutrino oscillations at Short-Baseline (SBL) and with the recent, carefully recomputed, antineutrino fluxes from nuclear reactors. At a refurbished…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-11-10 P. Bernardini , A. Bertolin , C. Bozza , R. Brugnera , A. Cecchetti , S. Cecchini , G. Collazuol , F. Dal Corso , I. De Mitri , M. De Serio , D. Di Ferdinando , U. Dore , S. Dusini , P. Fabbricatore , C. Fanin , R. A. Fini , A. Garfagnini , G. Grella , U. Kose , M. Laveder , P. Loverre , A. Longhin , G. Marsella , G. Mancarella , G. Mandrioli , N. Mauri , E. Medinaceli , M. Mezzetto , M. T. Muciaccia , D. Orecchini , A. Paoloni , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , M. Pozzato , R. Rescigno , G. Rosa , S. Simone , M. Sioli , G. Sirri , M. Spurio , L. Stanco , S. Stellacci , A. Surdo , M. Tenti , V. Togo

First operation and drift field performance of a large area double phase LAr Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber with an immersed Greinacher high-voltage multiplier

We have operated a liquid-argon large-electron-multiplier time-projection chamber (LAr LEM-TPC) with a large active area of 76 $\times$ 40 cm$^2$ and a drift length of 60 cm. This setup represents the largest chamber ever achieved with this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-09-04 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , U. Degunda , L. Epprecht , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , A. Marchionni , G. Natterer , K. Nguyen , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

Effect of Diffusion on the Peak Value of Energy Loss Observed in a LArTPC

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detectors observe ionization electrons to measure charged particle trajectories and energy. In a LArTPC, the long time ($\sim$ms) between when the ionization is produced and when it is collected…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-08 Gray Putnam , David W. Schmitz

A Time Projection Chamber for High-Rate Experiments: Towards an Upgrade of the ALICE TPC

A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is a powerful detector for 3-dimensional tracking and particle identification for ultra-high multiplicity events. It is the central tracking device of many experiments, e.g. the ALICE experiment at CERN. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Bernhard Ketzer

Performance Of A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Exposed To The WANF Neutrino Beam

We present the results of the first exposure of a Liquid Argon TPC to a multi-GeV neutrino beam. The data have been collected with a 50 liters ICARUS-like chamber located between the CHORUS and NOMAD experiments at the CERN West Area…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Arneodo et al.