21–23 Sept 2022
University of Warsaw Library
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Measurement of the Light-Yield in MicroBooNE with Isolated Protons

23 Sept 2022, 14:20
15m
316A (University of Warsaw Library)

316A

University of Warsaw Library

ul. Dobra 56/66, 00-312 Warszawa‎
Presentation Detector techniques (HV, purification, cryogenics, calibration etc.) Signal reconstruction

Speaker

Jiaoyang Li (The university of Edinburgh)

Description

The MicroBooNE detector is an 85-ton active mass Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) located on-axis along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB). It serves as a part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab, which was primarily designed to address the Miniboone low-energy excess. The primary signal in the LArTPC is ionisation, but the argon also emits large quantities of scintillation light. Prompt scintillation light in MicroBooNE is recorded with an array of 32 PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMTs). The scintillation light is used to determine the timing of neutrino interactions and to reject cosmic-ray activity. We present a new method of measuring the light-yield using isolated proton events, which enables a position-dependent light-yield measurement to map the response of the detector across its volume. This method can be used to calibrate the light response in large-scale LArTPC detectors as well as to test assumptions used in simulating scintillation light.

Primary author

Jiaoyang Li (The university of Edinburgh)

Presentation materials