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Calibration of the MINOS Detectors Using Stopping Muons

Calibration of the MINOS Detectors Using Stopping Muons. Jeff Hartnell University of Oxford & Rutherford Appleton Laboratory IoP Particle Physics 2004 Tuesday 6 th April. Talk Outline. The MINOS Experiment Near, Far and Calibration Detectors Calibrating the Calorimeter

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Calibration of the MINOS Detectors Using Stopping Muons

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  1. Calibration of the MINOS Detectors Using Stopping Muons Jeff Hartnell University of Oxford & Rutherford Appleton Laboratory IoP Particle Physics 2004 Tuesday 6th April

  2. Talk Outline • The MINOS Experiment • Near, Far and Calibration Detectors • Calibrating the Calorimeter • Stopping Muons: Our Standard Candle Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  3. MINOS Neutrino Physics • Long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. • Compare Near and Far neutrino energy spectra. • Looking for nm disappearance as a function of energy – “the dip”. • Very important that we can accurately reconstruct the neutrino energy. Near Far Ratio: Far/Near Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  4. Calibration Targets • Will hopefully have statistics for 10% measurement of Dm2. • Have a target of 5% for the absolute energy calibration. • Require that the relative calibration between detectors is 2%. Δm2 Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  5. MINOS Detectors (x3) • Common features: • Alternating steel-scintillator, magnetised, tracking calorimeters • WLS fibre-optic cables to extract the scintillator light Far Detector plane under construction Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  6. Near Detector Breaking News First Plane Installed: 31st March 2004 Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  7. Calibration Detector at CERN (CalDet) • Small version of Near and Far detectors • Exposed to m, p, e, p beams 0.5-10 GeV • Hadronic & EM energy response • Tune the MC Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  8. Neutrino Energy Reconstruction • Need to accurately determine original neutrino energy to see “the dip”. En = EHad + Em(Visible) • Em= f(Range) & f(B-Curvature) • EHad= f(Energy Dep.) hadrons nμ μ 5 m hadrons nμ nμ 1.5 m Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  9. Problems: Scintillator output varies by up to 20% from strip to strip. Light output depends on particle type and particle energy. Calibrating the Calorimeter Solutions: Normalise using cosmic muons. Measure response with Calibration Detector in MEU/GeV. (MEU=Muon Energy Unit) Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  10. Why Stopping Muons? • Need a calibration source of known energy - a “standard candle”. • Don’t have a “PS” accelerator ½ mile underground to provide beams of particles • The energy spectrum of cosmic muons (and hence energy deposition) is different for Near and Far detectors and not known accurately enough. • Working backwards from the end of a stopping muon track you know its energy – Use to define a Muon Energy Unit (MEU). • Stopping muons are the same at all 3 detectors! Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  11. Relativistic rise in ionisation ~10% Muons stop here Stopping Beam Muons in CalDet (at 1.8 GeV/c) Beam Direction Corrected ADCs Plane Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  12. Window Track Window Method • Want a method that is inherently robust and not sensitive to reconstruction problems. • Sum up the energy deposition in a window. • Define a Muon Energy Unit (MEU) to be the average energy deposited in the window by a perpendicular muon in one detector plane. Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  13. Conclusion • The main physics measurement requires accurate reconstruction of the neutrino energy to 5%. • Explained how MINOS has 3 detectors in very different environments. Need to set the absolute energy scale to be the same for each detector. • No beam source of GeV particles for calibration underground so use stopping cosmic muons. • Take a window on the stopping muon track to measure the detector response. • Should enable us to meet our 2% relative calibration target and hence accurately measure Dm2. Jeff Hartnell, IoP Particle Physics 2004

  14. The End!

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