Performance of the ICARUS liquid argon prototype

Arneodo, F.; Badertscher, A.; Baiboussinov, B.; Battistoni, G.; Benetti, P.; Bernardini, E.; Bischofberger, M.; Tigliole, A.B.A. Borio Di; Brunetti, R.; Bueno, A.; Calligarich, E.; Campanelli, M.; Carpanese, C.; Cavalli, D.; Cavanna, F.; Cennini, P.; Centro, S.; Cesana, A.; Chen, C.; Chen, D.; Chen, Y.; Cline, D.; Vecchi, C. De; Credico, A. Di; Dolfini, R.; Ferrari, A.; Ferri, F.; Berzolari, A. Gigli; Gil-Botella, I.; Grandi, L.; Grillo, A. A.; Haag, A.; He, K. L.; Huang, X. P.; Kruse, A.; Łaffranchi, M.; Li, Z.; Lisowski, M.; Lu, F.; Ma, J.; Matthey, C.; Mauri, F.; Mazza, Davide; Meng, G.; Montanari, C.; Muraro, S.; Navas, S.; Nicoletto, M.; Nurzia, G.; Otwinowski, S.; Ouyang, Q.; Palamara, O.; Pascoli, D.; Periale, L.; Petrera, S.; Mortari, G. Piano; Piazzoli, A.; Picchi, P.; Pietropaolo, F.; Rancati, T.; Rappoldi, A.; Rico, J.; Romualdi, B.; Rossella, M.; Rotilio, A.; Rubbia, A.; Rubbia, C.; Sala, P.; Scannicchio, D. A.; Scapparone, E.; Segreto, E.; Sergiampietri, F.; Sinanis, N.; Tatananni, E.; Terrani, M.; Ventura, S.; Vignoli, C.; Wang, H.; Woo, J.; Xu, G. F.; Xu, Z.; Zhang, C.; Zhang, Q.; Shen, Zhen

doi:10.1016/s0168-9002(02)01989-7

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“…The selection cuts (in particular, the fact that the proton should be fully contained), the resolution NOMAD has for muon reconstruction and the contamination from non-QE events are the main reasons for the appearance of events with large acollinearity values. The distortion introduced in the tail of the acollinearity distribution by nuclear effects is much smaller than the one 5 Respect to the total number of CC events, 2.3% are QE, 91.5% are DIS and the remaining 6.2% corresponds to resonances events. The simulation of the latest is not done treating each resonance individually, an average of them is taken into account instead.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…argon purification, wire chambers, electronics, data acquisition (DAQ), etc.). The ICARUS collaboration has been able to operate prototypes of increasing mass (3 tons [3,4], 14 tons [5], 600 tons [6]), and therefore the LAr TPC can now be considered as a mature technology able to produce multikton detectors for astroparticle and neutrino physics.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Performance of a liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the CERN West Area Neutrino Facility neutrino beam

Arneodo¹,

Benetti²,

Bonesini³

et al. 2006

Phys. Rev. D

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We present the results of the first exposure of a Liquid Argon TPC to a multi-GeV neutrino beam. The data have been collected with a 50 liters ICARUS-like chamber located between the CHORUS and NOMAD experiments at the CERN West Area Neutrino Facility (WANF). We discuss both the instrumental performance of the detector and its capability to identify and reconstruct low-multiplicity neutrino interactions.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance of a liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the CERN West Area Neutrino Facility neutrino beam

Arneodo¹,

Benetti²,

Bonesini³

et al. 2006

Phys. Rev. D

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“…Originally proposed in 1985 [13], the Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals (ICARUS) program has pioneered many of the techniques for single-and dual-phase LArTPC detector design, assembly and operation that are used by all other experiments operating today. Supported by a long-running research and development framework that included fully realised and operational 3 [14,15] and 14 tonne [16] prototypes, the culmination of the program-the ICARUS T600 single-phase detector was successfully assembled and operated at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories between 2004 and 2013 [17,18]. Following this, the detector was refurbished and moved to Fermilab in 2017 [19], to take its place as the far detector of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program [20], with operation expected to begin in 2021.…”

Section: Icarus T600mentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…The common denominator of the whole ICARUS T600 construction was the partnership with industry based on the achievements and technical developments from the long ICARUS R&D experience with different prototypes [19][20][21] and the use of commercial solutions available on the market, when possible. Industry involvement was crucial in order to perform the scaling-up of the technology from the laboratory prototypal scale to the kton one.…”

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Operation and performance of the ICARUS T600 cryogenic plant at Gran Sasso underground Laboratory

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A: ICARUS T600 liquid argon time projection chamber is the first large mass electronic detector of a new generation able to combine the imaging capabilities of the old bubble chambers with an excellent calorimetric energy measurement. After the three months demonstration run on surface in Pavia during 2001, the T600 cryogenic plant was significantly revised, in terms of reliability and safety, in view of its long term operation in an underground environment. The T600 detector was activated in Hall B of the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory during spring 2010, where it was operated without interruption for about three years, taking data exposed to the CERN to Gran Sasso long baseline neutrino beam (CNGS) and cosmic rays. In this paper the T600 cryogenic plant is described in detail together with the commissioning procedures that lead to the successful operation of the detector shortly after the end of the filling with liquid argon. Overall plant performance and stability during the underground run are discussed. Finally, the decommissioning procedures, carried out about six months after the end of the CNGS neutrino beam operation, are reported. K: Time projection Chambers (TPC); Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase); Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Cryogenic detectors A X P : 1504.015562015 JINST 10 P12004

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Performance of the ICARUS liquid argon prototype

Cited by 24 publications

References 7 publications

Performance of a liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the CERN West Area Neutrino Facility neutrino beam

Performance of a liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the CERN West Area Neutrino Facility neutrino beam

Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Operation and performance of the ICARUS T600 cryogenic plant at Gran Sasso underground Laboratory

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