Measurement of cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiencies in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using a small external cosmic-ray counter

被引：9

作者：

Acciarri, R. ^{[7
]}

Adams, C. ^{[8
,29
]}

An, R. ^{[9
]}

Anthony, J. ^{[3
]}

Asaadi, J. ^{[26
]}

Auger, M. ^{[1
]}

Bagby, L. ^{[7
]}

Balasubramanian, S. ^{[29
]}

Baller, B. ^{[7
]}

Barnes, C. ^{[15
]}

Barr, G. ^{[18
]}

Bass, M. ^{[18
]}

Bay, F. ^{[27
]}

Bishai, M. ^{[2
]}

Blake, A. ^{[11
]}

Bolton, T. ^{[10
]}

Camilleri, L. ^{[6
]}

Caratelli, D. ^{[6
]}

Carls, B. ^{[7
]}

Fernandez, R. Castillo ^{[7
]}

Cavanna, F. ^{[7
]}

Chen, H. ^{[2
]}

Church, E. ^{[19
]}

Cianci, D. ^{[6
,13
]}

Cohen, E. ^{[24
]}

Collin, G. H. ^{[14
]}

Conrad, J. M. ^{[14
]}

Convery, M. ^{[22
]}

Crespo-Anadon, J. I. ^{[6
]}

Del Tutto, M. ^{[18
]}

Devitt, D. ^{[11
]}

Dytman, S. ^{[20
]}

Eberly, B. ^{[22
]}

Ereditato, A. ^{[1
]}

Sanchez, L. Escudero

Esquivel, J. ^{[23
]}

Fadeeva, A. A. ^{[6
]}

Fleming, B. T. ^{[29
]}

Foreman, W. ^{[4
]}

Furmanski, A. P. ^{[13
]}

Garcia-Gamez, D. ^{[13
]}

Garvey, G. T. ^{[12
,20
]}

Genty, V. ^{[6
]}

Goeldi, D. ^{[1
]}

Gollapinni, S. ^{[10
,25
]}

Graf, N. ^{[20
]}

Gramellini, E. ^{[29
]}

Greenlee, H. ^{[7
]}

Grosso, R. ^{[5
]}

Guenette, R. ^{[8
,18
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

[2] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA

[3] Univ Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England

[4] Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

[5] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA

[6] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA

[7] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA

[8] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[9] IIT, Chicago, IL 60616 USA

[10] Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA

[11] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YW, England

[12] LANL, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

[13] Univ Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England

[14] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[15] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

[16] New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA

[17] Otterbein Univ, Westerville, OH 43081 USA

[18] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, England

[19] Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA

[20] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA

[21] St Marys Univ Minnesota, Winona, MN 55987 USA

[22] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA

[23] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA

[24] Tel Aviv Univ, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel

[25] Univ Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA

[26] Univ Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 USA

[27] TUBITAK Space Technol Res Inst, METU Campus, TR-06800 Ankara, Turkey

[28] Virginia Tech, Ctr Neutrino Phys, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA

[29] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[30] Vrije Univ Brussel, B-1050 Ixelles, Belgium

来源：

JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION | 2017年 / 12卷

基金：

英国科学技术设施理事会; 瑞士国家科学基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 美国能源部;

关键词：

Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors; Time projection chambers; Data reduction methods; Neutrino detectors;

D O I：

10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/P12030

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber at Fermilab designed to study short-baseline neutrino oscillations and neutrino-argon interaction cross-section. Due to its location near the surface, a good understanding of cosmic muons as a source of backgrounds is of fundamental importance for the experiment. We present a method of using an external 0.5 m (L) x 0.5 m (W) muon counter stack, installed above the main detector, to determine the cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiency in MicroBooNE. Data are acquired with this external muon counter stack placed in three different positions, corresponding to cosmic rays intersecting different parts of the detector. The data reconstruction efficiency of tracks in the detector is found to be epsilon(data) = (97.1 +/- 0.1 (stat) +/- 1.4 (sys)) %, in good agreement with the Monte Carlo reconstruction efficiency epsilon(MC) = (97.4 +/- 0.1)%. This analysis represents a small-scale demonstration of the method that can be used with future data coming from a recently installed cosmic-ray tagger system, which will be able to tag approximate to 80% of the cosmic rays passing through the MicroBooNE detector.

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