First results on ProtoDUNE-SP liquid argon time projection chamber performance from a beam test at the CERN Neutrino Platform

0537341 - FZÚ 2021 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Abi, B. - Abud, A.A. - Acciarri, R. - Lokajíček, Miloš - Zálešák, Jaroslav - Zuklín, Josef … Total 991 authors
First results on ProtoDUNE-SP liquid argon time projection chamber performance from a beam test at the CERN Neutrino Platform.
Journal of Instrumentation. Roč. 15, č. 12 (2020), s. 1-100, č. článku P12004. ISSN 1748-0221. E-ISSN 1748-0221
Research Infrastructure: Fermilab-CZ II - 90113
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : DUNE * Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics * activity report * photon * detector
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 1.415, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Open access

The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber with an active volume of 7.2×6.0×6.97.2 imes 6.0 imes 6.97.2×6.0×6.9 m3^33. It is installed at the CERN Neutrino Platform in a specially-constructed beam that delivers charged pions, kaons, protons, muons and electrons with momenta in the range 0.3 GeV/c/c/c to 7 GeV/ccc. Beam line instrumentation provides accurate momentum measurements and particle identification. The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a prototype for the first far detector module of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, and it incorporates full-size components as designed for that module. This paper describes the beam line, the time projection chamber, the photon detectors, the cosmic-ray tagger, the signal processing and particle reconstruction. It presents the first results on ProtoDUNE-SP's performance, including noise and gain measurements, dE/dxdE/dxdE/dx calibration for muons, protons.

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