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© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. The MicroBooNE detector utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) with an 85 t active mass to study neutrino interactions along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. With a deployment location near ground level, the detector records many cosmic muon tracks in each beam-related detector trigger that can be misidentified as signals of interest. To reduce these cosmogenic backgrounds, we have designed and constructed a TPC-external Cosmic Ray Tagger (CRT) . This sub-system was developed by the Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Albert Einstein center for fundamental physics, University of Bern. The system utilizes plastic scintillation modules to provide precise time and position information for TPC-traversing particles. Successful matching of TPC tracks and CRT data will allow us to reduce cosmogenic background and better characterize the light collection system and LArTPC data using cosmic muons. In this paper we describe the design and installation of the MicroBooNE CRT system and provide an overview of a series of tests done to verify the proper operation of the system and its components during installation, commissioning, and physics data-taking.
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mit-1721.1/1322212022-04-01T17:20:49Z Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. The MicroBooNE detector utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) with an 85 t active mass to study neutrino interactions along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. With a deployment location near ground level, the detector records many cosmic muon tracks in each beam-related detector trigger that can be misidentified as signals of interest. To reduce these cosmogenic backgrounds, we have designed and constructed a TPC-external Cosmic Ray Tagger (CRT) . This sub-system was developed by the Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Albert Einstein center for fundamental physics, University of Bern. The system utilizes plastic scintillation modules to provide precise time and position information for TPC-traversing particles. Successful matching of TPC tracks and CRT data will allow us to reduce cosmogenic background and better characterize the light collection system and LArTPC data using cosmic muons. In this paper we describe the design and installation of the MicroBooNE CRT system and provide an overview of a series of tests done to verify the proper operation of the system and its components during installation, commissioning, and physics data-taking. 2021-09-20T18:21:24Z 2021-09-20T18:21:24Z 2019 2020-09-23T18:19:35Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132221 en 10.1088/1748-0221/14/04/P04004 Journal of Instrumentation Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf IOP Publishing arXiv
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Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system
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Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system
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Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system
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Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system
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Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system
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Design and construction of the MicroBooNE Cosmic Ray Tagger system
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design and construction of the microboone cosmic ray tagger system
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132221
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