The Calibration of the Minos Detectors

Nichol, R.; Adamson, P.; Alner, J.; Anderson, B.; Attree, D.; Barker, M.; Belias, A.; Crone, G.; Durkin, T.; Felt, N.; Falk, E.; Harris, Philip; Jenner, L.; Kordosky, M.; Lang, K.; Lebedev, A.; Lee, R.; Longley, N. P.; Маршак, М. Л.; Miyagawa, P. S.; Michael, D.; Morse, R.; Musser, J.; Nicholls, T.; Oliver, J. L.; Pearce, G. F.; Petyt, D.; Proga, M.; Rebel, B.; Saakyan, R.; Smith, Chris; Sullivan, Peter; Thomas, J.; Vahle, P.; Weber, A.; Wojcicki, S. G.

doi:10.1142/9789812704894_0052

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“…A number of MINOS theses have described the Calibration detector, the test-beams as well as much other detail on the whole experimental setup [68,70,76,38,77,18,69].…”

Section: The Calibration Detectormentioning

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Measurement of the calorimetric energy scale in MINOS

Hartnell¹

2005

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MINOS is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. A neutrino beam is created at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and fired down through the Earth. Measurements of the energy spectra and composition of the neutrino beam are made both at the source using the Near detector and 735 km away at the Soudan Underground Laboratory in Minnesota using the Far detector. By comparing the spectrum and flavour composition of the neutrino beam between the two detectors neutrino oscillations can be observed. Such a comparison depends on the accuracy of the relative calorimetric energy scale.This thesis details a precise measurement of the calorimetric energy scale of the MINOS Far detector and Calibration detector using stopping muons with a new "track window" technique. These measurements are used to perform the relative calibration between the two detectors. This calibration has been accomplished to 1.7% in data and to significantly better than 2% in the Monte Carlo simulation, thus achieving the MINOS relative calibration target of 2%.A number of cross-checks have been performed to ensure the robustness of the calorimetric energy scale measurements. At the Calibration detector the test-beam energy between run periods is found to be consistent with the detector response to better than 2% after the relative calibration is applied. The muon energy loss in the MINOS detectors determined from Bethe-Bloch predictions, data and Monte Carlo are compared and understood.To estimate the systematic error on the measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters caused by a relative miscalibration a study is performed. A 2% relative miscalibration is shown to cause a 0.6% bias in the values of ∆m 2 and sin 2 (2θ).To my parents.i

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“…A number of MINOS theses have described the Calibration detector, the test-beams as well as much other detail on the whole experimental setup [68,70,76,38,77,18,69].…”

Section: The Calibration Detectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Measurement of the calorimetric energy scale in MINOS

Hartnell¹

2005

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“…The beams were of known content and energy and were employed to measure the detector response. See [58] for a detailed description.…”

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An atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance measurement with the MINOS far detector

Gogos¹

2007

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“…It converts the charge collected in ADC counts back to the value in photo-electrons seen at the PMT photo-cathode using the premeasured PMT gain. It is added here for completeness and does not need to be discussed further [64], [65].…”

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Preliminary Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters By NuMI/MINOS and Calibration Studies for Improving this Measurement

Symes

2005

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The Calibration of the Minos Detectors

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Measurement of the calorimetric energy scale in MINOS

Measurement of the calorimetric energy scale in MINOS

An atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance measurement with the MINOS far detector

Preliminary Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters By NuMI/MINOS and Calibration Studies for Improving this Measurement

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