The MINOS calibration detector

被引:32
作者
Adamson, P
Crone, G
Jenner, L
Nichol, R
Saakyan, R
Smith, C
Thomas, J
Kordosky, M [1 ]
Lang, K
Vahle, P
Belias, A
Nicholls, T
Pearce, G
Petyt, D
Barker, M
Cabrera, A
Hartnell, J
Miyagawa, PS
Tagg, N
Weber, A
Harris, EF
Harris, PG
Morse, R
Symes, P
Michael, D
Litchfield, PJ
Lee, R
Boyd, S
机构
[1] Univ Texas, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[2] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[3] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[4] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[5] Univ Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England
[6] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[7] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[8] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[9] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
neutrino detector calibration; tron-scintillator sampling calorimeter; test beam measurements;
D O I
10.1016/j.nima.2005.10.072
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
This paper describes the MINOS calibration detector (CalDet) and the procedure used to calibrate it. The CalDet, a scaled-down but functionally equivalent model of the MINOS Far and Near detectors, was exposed to test beams in the CERN PS East Area during 2001-2003 to establish the response of the MINOS calorimeters to hadrons, electrons and muons in the range 0.2-IOGeV/c. The CalDet measurements are used to fix the energy scale and constrain Monte Carlo simulations of MINOS. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:15
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