利用紫外激光系统确定液氩时间投影室电场的方法及其在 MicroBooNE 中的应用
仪器与探测器
2020-08-26 v2
摘要
液氩时间投影室(LArTPCs)因其高材料密度、精确径迹重建和量能能力,已成为进行加速器 neutrino 测量的标准探测器技术。此类探测器需要电场(E-field)将电离电子漂移至阳极并被收集。TPC 的电场通常近似为在阳极与阴极平面之间均匀。然而,机械变形、电极失效或宇宙射线产生的空间电荷积累等效应会引起显著畸变。后者对于靠近地球表面放置、具有大漂移距离和长漂移时间的探测器尤为相关。为原位确定电场,费米国家加速器实验室的 MicroBooNE 实验中安装了紫外(UV)激光系统。该系统的目的是提供电场的精确测量,并校正由电场非均匀性引起的三维空间畸变。本文描述了根据 UV 激光测量推导空间畸变、漂移速度和电场的方法。
引用
@article{arxiv.1910.01430,
title = {A Method to Determine the Electric Field of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers Using a UV Laser System and its Application in MicroBooNE},
author = {MicroBooNE collaboration and C. Adams and M. Alrashed and R. An and J. Anthony and J. Asaadi and A. Ashkenazi and S. Balasubramanian and B. Baller and C. Barnes and G. Barr and V. Basque and M. Bass and F. Bay and S. Berkman and A. Bhanderi and A. Bhat 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 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 L. Domine and K. Duffy and S. Dytman and B. Eberly and A. Ereditato and L. Escudero Sanchez and J. J. Evans and R. S. Fitzpatrick and B. T. Fleming and N. Foppiani and D. Franco and A. P. Furmanski and D. Garcia-Gamez and S. Gardiner and V. Genty and D. Goeldi and S. Gollapinni and O. Goodwin and E. Gramellini and P. Green and H. Greenlee and R. Grosso and L. Gu and W. Gu and R. Guenette and P. Guzowski and P. Hamilton and O. Hen and C. Hill and G. A. Horton-Smith and A. Hourlier and E. C. Huang and R. Itay and C. James and J. Jan de Vries and X. Ji and L. Jiang and J. H. Jo and R. A. Johnson and J. Joshi 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 K. Mason and A. Mastbaum and N. McConkey and V. Meddage and T. Mettler and K. Miller and J. Mills and K. Mistry and T. Mohayai 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 R. K. Neely 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 A. Paudel and Z. Pavlovic and E. Piasetzky and D. Porzio and S. Prince and G. Pulliam and X. Qian and J. L. Raaf and V. Radeka and A. Rafique and L. Ren and L. Rochester and H. E. Rogers and M. Ross-Lonergan and C. Rudolf von Rohr and B. Russell and G. Scanavini 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 M. Stancari 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 R. T. Thornton and M. Toups and Y. -T. Tsai and S. Tufanli and M. A. Uchida 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 Z. Williams and S. Wolbers and T. Wongjirad and K. Woodruff and M. Wospakrik and W. Wu and T. Yang and G. Yarbrough and L. E. Yates and G. P. Zeller and J. Zennamo and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01430},
year = {2020}
}