Overhaul and installation of the ICARUS-T600 liquid argon TPC electronics for the FNAL Short Baseline Neutrino program

Bagby, L.; Baibussinov, B.; Behera, B. R.; Bellini, Vincenzo; Benocci, R.; Betancourt, M.; Bettini, M.; Bonesini, M.; Boone, T.; Braggiotti, A.; Brown, J.; Budd, H. S.; Calaon, F.; Castellani, L.; Centro, S.; Cocco, A. G.; Convery, M. R.; F, Fabris; Falcone, A.; Farnese, C.; Fava, A.; Fichera, F.; Giarin, M.; Gibin, D.; Guglielmi, A.; Guida, R.; Hilgenberg, C.; Howard, B.; Marchini, S.; Menegolli, A.; Meng, G.; Montanari, C.; Mooney, M.; Granados, Guadalupe Moreno; Mueller, J.; Nessi, M.; Nicoletto, M.; Pedrotta, R.; Peghin, R.; Petrillo, G.; Pietropaolo, F.; Rampazzo, G.; Rappoldi, A.; Raselli, G.; Rossella, M.; Rubbia, C.; Scaramelli, A.; Sergiampietri, F.; Spanu, M.; Torretta, D.; Torti, M.; Tortorici, F.; Tsai, Y.-T.; Turcato, M.; Varanini, F.; Ventura, S.; Vercellati, F.; Vignoli, C.; Warner, D.; Wilson, R. J.; Worcester, M.; Zani, A.; Zatti, P

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“…A custom-designed PCB built into each flange acts as the electronic interface between the external and internal sides, with front-end electronics-such as amplifiers and multiplexing capabilities (that is, the collation of multiple signals for transmission over a single line)-being housed on dedicated motherboards mounted on the internal side of each PCB. A total of nine "decoupling and bias boards" (DBBs) connect to each front-end motherboard, and these both provide the bias to and receive signal readout from the wires, with each DBB servicing 64 wires [25]. As noted previously, each plane produces a single 2D view of an event specific to that plane's wire orientation, and by combining these views, 3D position reconstruction is achieved.…”

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Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Majumdar

Mavrokoridis

2021

Applied Sciences

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Liquid Argon (LAr) is one of the most widely used scintillators in particle detection, due to its low cost, high availability and excellent scintillation properties. A large number of experiments in the neutrino sector are based around using LAr in one or more Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), leading to high resolution three-dimensional particle reconstruction. In this paper, we review and summarise a number of these Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) experiments, and briefly describe the specific technologies that they currently employ. This includes single phase LAr experiments (ICARUS T600, MicroBooNE, SBND, LArIAT, DUNE-SP, ProtoDUNE-SP, ArgonCube and Vertical Drift) and dual phase LAr experiments (DUNE-DP, WA105, ProtoDUNE-DP and ARIADNE). We also discuss some new avenues of research in the field of LArTPC readout, which show potential for wide-scale use in the near future.

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“…Two-dimensional views of a single upward-going atmospheric muon neutrino event as seen on the 0°and +60°induction wire planes (top left and top right respectively) and the −60°c ollection plane (bottom) of one of the ICARUS T600 APAs. Adapted from [25].…”

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Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Majumdar

Mavrokoridis

2021

Applied Sciences

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“…Much remains to be done to validate these promising results. To this end, the Exa.TrkX project is collaborating with physicists from ATLAS [56], CMS [57], DUNE [58], ICARUS [59], and MuonE [60].…”

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Performance of a geometric deep learning pipeline for HL-LHC particle tracking

Murnane

Calafiura

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Eur. Phys. J. C

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The Exa.TrkX project has applied geometric learning concepts such as metric learning and graph neural networks to HEP particle tracking. Exa.TrkX’s tracking pipeline groups detector measurements to form track candidates and filters them. The pipeline, originally developed using the TrackML dataset (a simulation of an LHC-inspired tracking detector), has been demonstrated on other detectors, including DUNE Liquid Argon TPC and CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter. This paper documents new developments needed to study the physics and computing performance of the Exa.TrkX pipeline on the full TrackML dataset, a first step towards validating the pipeline using ATLAS and CMS data. The pipeline achieves tracking efficiency and purity similar to production tracking algorithms. Crucially for future HEP applications, the pipeline benefits significantly from GPU acceleration, and its computational requirements scale close to linearly with the number of particles in the event.

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“…A field response model depends strongly on the design of the anode electrodes and their electrical potentials in addition to the nominal drift electric field. Most of the recent large LArTPC detectors, including ICARUS [11], MicroBooNE [4], ProtoDUNE [12], and SBND [3], utilize three planes of parallel wires each providing one projective view of the ionization electrons. A wire-based design is also chosen for the first 10 kt module of the DUNE far detector [2].…”

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A hybrid 3D/2D field response calculation for liquid argon detectors with PCB based anode plane

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Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology is commonly utilized in neutrino detector designs. It enables detailed reconstruction of neutrino events with high spatial precision and low energy threshold. Its field response (FR) model describes the time-dependent electric currents induced in the anode-plane electrodes when ionization electrons drift nearby. An accurate and precise FR is a crucial input to LArTPC detector simulations and charge reconstruction. Established LArTPC designs have been based on parallel wire planes. It allows accurate and computationally economic two-dimensional (2D) FR models utilizing the translational symmetry along the direction of the wires. Recently, novel LArTPC designs utilize electrodes formed on printed circuit board (PCB) in the shape of strips with through holes. The translational symmetry is no longer a good approximation near the electrodes and a new FR calculation that employs regions with three dimensions (3D) has been developed. Extending the 2D models to 3D would be computationally expensive. Fortuitously, the nature of strips with through holes allows for a computationally economic approach based on the finite-difference method (FDM). In this paper, we present a new software package pochoir that calculates LArTPC field response for these new strip-based anode designs. This package combines 3D calculations in the volume near the electrodes with 2D far-field solutions to achieve fast and precise field response computation. We apply the resulting FR to simulate and reconstruct samples of cosmic-ray muons and 39Ar decays from a Vertical Drift (VD) detector prototype operated at CERN. We find the difference between real and simulated data within 5%. Current state-of-the-art LArTPC software requires a 2D FR which we provide by averaging over one dimension and estimate that variations lost in this average are smaller than 7%.

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Overhaul and installation of the ICARUS-T600 liquid argon TPC electronics for the FNAL Short Baseline Neutrino program

Cited by 7 publications

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Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Performance of a geometric deep learning pipeline for HL-LHC particle tracking

A hybrid 3D/2D field response calculation for liquid argon detectors with PCB based anode plane

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