Measurement of through-going particle momentum by means of multiple scattering with the ICARUS T600 TPC

Ankowski, Artur M.; Antonello, M.; Aprili, P.; Arneodo, F.; Badertscher, A.; Baiboussinov, B.; Ceolin, M. Baldo; Battistoni, G.; Benetti, P.; Tigliole, A. Borio di; Brunetti, R.; Bueno, A.; Calligarich, E.; Carbonara, F.; Carmona, M.; Cavanna, F.; Cennini, P.; Centro, S.; Cesana, A.; Cline, D.; Cieślik, K.; Cocco, A. G.; Vecchi, C. De; Dąbrowska, A.; Cicco, Alessandro Di; Dolfini, R.; Ereditato, A.; Ferrari, A.; Fiorillo, G.; García-Gámez, D.; Ge, Yuanyuan; Gibin, D.; Berzolari, A. Gigli; Gil-Botella, I.; Graczyk, Krzysztof M.; Grandi, L.; Guglielmi, A.; Holeczek, J.; Kiełczewska, D.; Kisiel, J.; Kozłowski, T.; Łaffranchi, M.; Łagoda, J.; Lisowski, B.; Lozano, J.; Markiewicz, Marcin; Ossa, A. Martínez de la; Matthey, C.; Mauri, F.; Melgarejo, A J; Menegolli, A.; Meng, G.; Messina, M.; Mijakowski, P.; Montanari, C.; Muraro, S.; Navas, S.; Nowak, J.; Otwinowski, S.; Palamara, O.; Periale, L.; Mortari, G. Piano; Piazzoli, A.; Picchi, P.; Pietropaolo, F.; Półchłopek, W.; Posiadała, M.; Prata, M.C.; Przewłocki, P.; Rappoldi, A.; Raselli, G.L.; Rondio, E.; Rossella, M.; Rossi, B.; Rubbia, A.; Rubbia, C.; Sala, P.; Scannicchio, D. A.; Segreto, E.; Seo, Yong-Ho; Sergiampietri, F.; Sobczyk, J. T.; Stefan, D.; Steṕaniak, J.; Sulej, R.; Szeptycka, M.; Szarska, M.; Terrani, M.; Varanini, F.; Ventura, S.; Vignoli, C.; Wąchała, T.; Wang, H.; Yang, Xinzheng; Zalewska, A.

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“…Additionally, the MACRO [13] collaboration at Gran Sasso Laboratory utilized this technique. For LArTPCs, the ICARUS collaboration has described the MCS-based determination of particle momentum using a variety of methods [14,15]. The likelihood-based method discussed in this paper for use in the MicrobooNE detector and described in detail in section 3, has improved on the ICARUS method by tuning the underlying phenomenological formula.…”

Section: Multiple Coulomb Scatteringmentioning

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Determination of muon momentum in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using an improved model of multiple Coulomb scattering

Abratenko¹,

Acciarri²,

Adams³

et al. 2017

J. Inst.

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A: We discuss a technique for measuring a charged particle's momentum by means of multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). This method does not require the full particle ionization track to be contained inside of the detector volume as other track momentum reconstruction methods do (range-based momentum reconstruction and calorimetric momentum reconstruction). We motivate use of this technique, describe a tuning of the underlying phenomenological formula, quantify its performance on fully contained beam-neutrino-induced muon tracks both in simulation and in data, and quantify its performance on exiting muon tracks in simulation. Using simulation, we have shown that the standard Highland formula should be re-tuned specifically for scattering in liquid argon, which significantly improves the bias and resolution of the momentum measurement. With the tuned formula, we find agreement between data and simulation for contained tracks, with a small bias in the momentum reconstruction and with resolutions that vary as a function of track length, improving from about 10% for the shortest (one meter long) tracks to 5% for longer (several meter) tracks. For simulated exiting muons with at least one meter of track contained, we find a similarly small bias, and a resolution which is less than 15% for muons with momentum below 2 GeV/c. Above 2 GeV/c, results are given as a first estimate of the MCS momentum measurement capabilities of MicroBooNE for high momentum exiting tracks.

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Section: Multiple Coulomb Scatteringmentioning

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Determination of muon momentum in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using an improved model of multiple Coulomb scattering

Abratenko¹,

Acciarri²,

Adams³

et al. 2017

J. Inst.

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“…A typical signal is a few µs long, but it may become much longer (∼130 µs) if the track has a small angle with respect to the drift direction. This implies 3 Thorlabs DET 10 A. 4 GEANTEC -SOLO 2. that the low frequency components must be amplified without distortion.…”

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A prototype liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber for the study of UV laser multi-photonic ionization

et al. 2009

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This paper describes the design, realization and operation of a prototype liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detector dedicated to the development of a novel online monitoring and calibration system exploiting UV laser beams. In particular, the system is intended to measure the lifetime of the primary ionization in LAr, in turn related to the LAr purity level. This technique could be exploited by present and next generation large mass LAr TPCs for which monitoring of the performance and calibration plays an important role. Results from the first measurements are presented together with some considerations and outlook.

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“…Here we assume the maximum momentum for the proton to be p p = 250 MeV. From [48], in liquid argon technology, the muon momenta resolution is of order of δp µ /p µ ≈ 18% which implies in a 61.3(105.6) MeV resolution band which determines the energy and momenta for the products of Eq.(1.1). Explicitly we have,…”

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Impact of standard neutrino oscillations and systematics on proton lifetime measurements

Gratieri¹,

Guzzo²,

Peres³

2019

J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.

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We use atmospheric neutrino phenomenology to obtain the expected background to proton decay in large underground neutrino detectors, like DUNE. We introduced, for the first time in this kind of analysis, the experimentally confirmed neutrino oscillations of the atmospheric neutrino observations which reduce by a factor of 40% the corresponding background for nucleon decay channel p → µ + + π 0 . Furthermore, we infer the impact of four systematics on such background: the overall efficiency, the muon reconstruction energy resolution, the resonant neutral pion cross-section and the neutral pion angular resolution. Considering a 40 kton detector with efficiency 45%, our analysis leads to an error band in the lower limit for the proton lifetime, from 7.9 × 10 33 years to 1.1 × 10 34 years at 90% C.L.. These numbers can be compared with the current mode dependent experimental limits τ > 10 31 − 10 33 years at 90% C.L.. Finally we investigate how this limit can be further improved with the enhancement of the efficiency of the experiment which can be obtained, for instance, with the implementation of the ARAPUCA device in DUNE.

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Measurement of through-going particle momentum by means of multiple scattering with the ICARUS T600 TPC

Cited by 44 publications

References 13 publications

Determination of muon momentum in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using an improved model of multiple Coulomb scattering

Determination of muon momentum in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using an improved model of multiple Coulomb scattering

A prototype liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber for the study of UV laser multi-photonic ionization

Impact of standard neutrino oscillations and systematics on proton lifetime measurements

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