LBNO-DEMO: Large-scale neutrino detector demonstrators for phased performance assessment in view of a long-baseline oscillation experiment

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Title: LBNO-DEMO: Large-scale neutrino detector demonstrators for phased performance assessment in view of a long-baseline oscillation experiment
Authors: Agostino, L., Andrieu, B., Asfandiyarov, R., Autiero, D., Bésida, O., Bay, F., Bayes, R., Blebea-Apostu, A. M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Bravar, A., Buizza-Avanzini, M., Cadoux, F., Caiulo, D., Calin, M., Campanelli, M., Cantini, C., Chaussard, L., Chesneanu, D., Colino, N., Crivelli, P., De Bonis, I., Déclais, Y., Dawson, J., De La Taille, C., Sanchez, P. Del Amo, Delbart, A., Di Luise, S., Duchesneau, D., Dulucq, F., Dumarchez, J., Efthymiopoulos, I., Emery, S., Enqvist, T., Epprecht, L., Esanu, T., Franco, D., Friend, M., Galymov, V., Gendotti, A., Giganti, C., Gil-Botella, I., Gomoiu, M. C, Gorodetzky, P., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Horikawa, S., Ieva, M., Jipa, A., Karadzhov, Y., Karpikov, I., Khotjantsev, A., Korzenev, A., Kryn, D., Kudenko, Y., Kuusiniemi, P., Lazanu, I., Levy, J. -M., Loo, K., Lux, T., Maalampi, J., Margineanu, R. M., Marteau, J., Martin, C., Martin-Chassard, G., Mazzucato, E., Mefodiev, A., Mineev, O., Mitrica, B., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nessi, M., Nikolics, K., Nita, L., Noah, E., Novella, P., Nuijten, G. A., Ovsiannikova, T., Palomares, C., Patzak, T., Pennacchio, E., Periale, L., Pessard, H., Popov, B., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Regenfus, C., Ristea, C., Ristea, O., Robert, A., Rubbia, A., Sakashita, K., Sanchez, F., Santorelli, R., Scantamburlo, E., Sergiampietri, F., Sgalaberna, D., Slupecki, M., Soler, F. J. P., Stanca, D. L., Tonazzo, A., Trzaska, W. H., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Vannucci, F., Vasseur, G., Verdugo, A., Viant, T., Wu, S., Yershov, N., Zambelli, L., Zito, M.
Publication Year: 2014
Collection: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Physics (Other)
Subject Terms: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
More Details: In June 2012, an Expression of Interest for a long-baseline experiment (LBNO) has been submitted to the CERN SPSC. LBNO considers three types of neutrino detector technologies: a double-phase liquid argon (LAr) TPC and a magnetised iron detector as far detectors. For the near detector, a high-pressure gas TPC embedded in a calorimeter and a magnet is the baseline design. A mandatory milestone is a concrete prototyping effort towards the envisioned large-scale detectors, and an accompanying campaign of measurements aimed at assessing the detector associated systematic errors. The proposed $6\times 6\times 6$m$^3$ DLAr is an industrial prototype of the design discussed in the EoI and scalable to 20 kton or 50~kton. It is to be constructed and operated in a controlled laboratory and surface environment with test beam access, such as the CERN North Area (NA). Its successful operation and full characterisation will be a fundamental milestone, likely opening the path to an underground deployment of larger detectors. The response of the DLAr demonstrator will be measured and understood with an unprecedented precision in a charged particle test beam (0.5-20 GeV/c). The exposure will certify the assumptions and calibrate the response of the detector, and allow to develop and to benchmark sophisticated reconstruction algorithms, such as those of 3-dimensional tracking, particle ID and energy flow in liquid argon. All these steps are fundamental for validating the correctness of the physics performance described in the LBNO EoI.
Comment: 217 pages, 164 figures, LBNO-DEMO (CERN WA105) Collaboration
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4405
Accession Number: edsarx.1409.4405
Database: arXiv
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