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The BLAND Group
• Patrick Owen – Resolution and Efficiency
• Laurie Hudson– General design and Charge readout
• Stewart Hawkley– Triggering and Event reconstruction
• Cheryl Shepherd and James Mugliston– Magnetics and Cryogenics
• Oliver Cartz and Jeanette Avon– Calibration and Background
• Dee Campbell-Jackson– Avalanche Photodiodes and Purification
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Introduction• General Setup and Material Choice• Collection Plate• Magnetisation• Photomultipliers• Electronics• Calibration • Background and Location• Purification• Triggering• Simulations• Sensitivity & Resolution• Cost• Summary
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General Setup
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-Tank has cylindrical geometry
- Gaseous argon at the top for bi-phase LEM that will used in charge readout.
- Non-magnetic tank and dome.
- Anti-coincidence shield
- This will all be contained within a cryostat. (Liquid Nitrogen)
- Magnet & a return yoke to provide a uniform B field.
Near Detector
• Exactly the same (except size)
• Cylindrical shape
• 6m diameter, 5m height
• Identical in functionality -
• Used for measuring cross sections and initial energy spectrum
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Material Choice
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• $0.6 kg-1 ≈ $10 million (for 1 detector)
• High density (1.4 gcm-3) and stability.
• εr = 1.6
• μ = 475 cm2V-1s-1
• High scintillation yield; 40,000 γ per MeV
• Background rejection of NC and junk CC interactions
Collection Plate
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• Far detector - magnetises ~ 17 kTonnes of liquid argon• Solenoid produces a uniform field of 0.55 T • Correction currents with a return yoke• Total coil ~ 5.5 kTonnes• Iron yoke ~ 16.1 kTonnes• Magnet Cooling system• Feasible power consumption of 19.2MW
Magnet
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BLAND magnet demonstration
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Simulation result
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Photomultipliers• Avalanche photodiodes (APD)– Small size– Low dead time
• Low temperatures• High B-field• Gain 106
Electronics
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• Current collected is of order pC.• Install pre-amps inside cryostat to reduce capacitance.• Extended lifetime of electronics• High signal: noise ratio• 4 bytes per digitisation, 2.5MHz.• Bandwidth distributed around PC farm.
Pre-amplifier ADC
Collection Plate
Cryostat
Calibration
• Why calibrate?• Initial– Signal Level-> Energy– Test beam– Cosmic ray muons (anti-coincidence shield)– Electronics
• Ongoing calibration– Constantly changing variables– Correction factors– Cosmic ray muons
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Before
After
Background
• Projected direction• Known energy range• Location• Expected background:– 10-8 s-1 neutrinos– 1s-1 cosmic ray muons at 1km underground
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Location
• Underground• Low background radiation• Few nuclear power plants• High available energy• Existing underground facilities
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• Average data rate ~45MB/s.• Trigger above background pedestal.• Scintillation light detected by PMTs used to trigger for 'interesting'
events.• Effectively segments detector, only reading out locally active regions.• An anti-coincidence shield is used to reject background.
Triggering
Purification of LAr
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• Electron drift ~ 25m• Minimisation of
recombination• Purity of <0.1ppb
– Monitor contact materials– Hermetic system– Continual purification
• 100Watts
Purity Testing
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Schematics Signals
Simulations
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Charged current muon production
Charged current electron production
Incident neutrinos
Sensitivity
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The QECC cross section (red line) is found to be 7.5x10-43 m2 and 6x10-43 m2 for the far detector and middle detector respectively (Half these values for antineutrinos).
http://www.fnal.gov/directorate/DirReviews/Neutrino_Wrkshp_files/Fleming.pdf
Sensitivity
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The average active thickness for the detector, t = 2d/π =14.1m
The number density under the average pressure, n = 2.0x1028
d =22m
Again these values are halved for antineutrinos
Energy Resolution• A 1GeV electron will ionise 1.45x107 atoms• The contribution from quantum fluctuations is
• Another contribution is from the time resolution which is a systematic error.
• Noise and avalanche variation is expected to be negligible.• Other effects such as electronics and dead zones.• These values are best estimates.
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Momentum Resolution• Spatial resolution arises from diffusion and channel size• Total spatial resolution is 6.7mm• Momentum resolution:
• Radiation length calculated to be 5.6km – multiple scattering contribution is negligible.
• Heavily dependent on path length, L – not constant.
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Average fractional momentum resolution is 1% and 3% for the middle and far detectors respectively (worse than energy resolution).
Momentum Resolution
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Cost
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Equipment Number Cost ($)
Liquid Argon 2x17KT + small 25 mil
Magnet & Yoke 2 24 mil
PMs (1/m2 ) ~4000 120 k
Liquid Nitrogen 2x104 m3 2 mil
LEM Channels + E-field 12x106 12 mil
Underground factor n/a 2
PC Farm 1 10 mil
Contingency n/a 80 mil
Engineers & Scientists 200 48 mil (over 6 years)
Total 264 mil + running costs
Summary…• Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber• LEM readout• Uniform 0.55T B-field• Triggering using APDs• Calibration using test beams• Underground• Data Rate 45MB/sec• Purity < 0.1ppb• Great energy resolution, good momentum
resolution• Cost ~ $264 mil + running costs
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References
• Neutrino Scattering in Liquid Argon TPC Detectors, Fleming.
• Radiation Detection and Measurement; 2nd ed, Knoll.
• Measurement of the muon decay spectrum with the ICARUS liquid Argon TPC, ICARUS Collaboration.
• Detectors for particle radiation, Kleinknecht.
• Calorimetry, Wigmans.
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Questions?
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