Marta Babicz (IFJ PAN): ICARUS T600 Trigger Study for the Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab

Friday Apr 24, 2020, 10:15 AM → 11:00 AM Europe/Warsaw

Abstract:

The SBN experiment inscribes in an extensive experimental programme of searches for sterile neutrino (neutrinos), whose existence is one of the fundamental open questions of neutrino physics.

In the SBN experiment the ICARUS T600 detector will operate at shallow depths, facing very challenging experimental conditions, because of being exposed to the huge cosmic ray background. Therefore, it will be fundamental to distinguish the signals related to the neutrino beams from those induced by cosmic rays. The trigger system will exploit the coincidence of the prompt signals from the LAr scintillation, detected by 360 Hamamatsu R5912-MOD Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs) with a beam gate window generated in correspondence with the expected arrival time of neutrinos in the detector.

The PMT majority patterns as well as levels of accuracy required in calculations of the scintillation light detection, as a function of the arrival time, have to be defined in dedicated simulations in order to check the effective performance of the proposed trigger layout.

Important: This seminar is remote only due to the COVID-19 regulations

Link: https://speakapp.link/to/Uh3PDw

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