SLIDE 1 Masashi Y
Nov.10 NBI03 @ KEK
K2K Near Detector 2 SciBar Detector
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Introduction
SLIDE 3 K2K result indicates ∆m2≈2.8x10–3 for νµ ↔ντ oscillation Oscillation maximum at Eν≈0.6GeV for 250km of baseline Study of neutrino interaction at low energy is important to maximize sensitivity
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Motivation
⇒Construct new detector
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Clean reconstruction of vertex High efficiency for all particles Low momentum threshold for tracks (esp. protons) Full active detector Fine segmentation µ/p/π separation Range+dE/dx EM calorimetry for study of νe/π0
Requirements
SLIDE 5 Detector Water Cherenkov 1kt ν beam
To Super-Kamiokande
SciFi/Water target
SciBar detector
Muon chamber K2K Front Detector
Full-active tracker with Scintillator Bars!!
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Detector design
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3x3x1.8m3 (Tot. mass ~15t) ~300 interactions/day, ~40,000 int./3x1019 POT expected if fid. mass=10t Full active, fine grained 1.3x2.5cm2, 64 layers High efficiency for all particles from vertex Threshold for protons ~350MeV e/π0 ID capability w/ EM calorimeter
SciBar detector overview
⇒Precise study of ν interaction!
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Scintillator 2.5x1.3x300cm3 MINOS-type extruded scintillator (made at FNAL) 64 layers (X+Y) 14336 channels in total Wave length shifting fiber 1.5mmΦ x 360mm Kuraray Y11 Attenuation length: ~360cm (all fibers measured before installation) Light yield: 20p.e./cm for MIP after 40cm of fiber
Scintillator and fiber
SLIDE 9 Hamamatsu H8804 64ch w/ 2x2mm2 pixel size Alignment w/ fiber better than 300µm Cross-talk to adjacent channel: ≤3% All channels calibrated before installation Gain~5x105
Multi-Anode PMT
Fibers w/ cookie after polishing
SLIDE 10 Readout electronics
VA/TA VA/TA 64ch MA-PMT
Frontend Board (FEB)
VA/TA& timing Controller VME-IF
DAQ Board
FADC FADC FADC FADC FADC FADC FADC FADC x224 x28 FADC FADC FADC FADC FADC FADC FADC FIFO
TDC (64ch) Trigger module
Timing Distributor
VME-bus
VME-PCI BRIDGE
spill info
Linux PC
Large number of channels (~15,000) VA frontend LSI: Multiplex analog signal Readout 64ch with a signal line Low noise: ~0.3p.e. (MIP=10-20p.e.) Large dynamic range Linear up to 300p.e. low energy proton Fast trigger/timing signal TA LSI chip at frontend 32-ch ORed output
SLIDE 11 Modules from CHORUS “spaghetti” calorimeter 1mm diameter fibers in the grooves of lead foils 4x4cm2 cell read out from both ends 30 horiz. + 32 vert. modules (11X0) placed just downstream
Expected resolution: 14%√E Linearity: better than 10%
4 cm 8 cm 262 cm Readout Cell ν Beam
Electron Catcher
ν beam
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Photo Gallery
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Main SciBar E-catcher
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WLS fibers PMT (backside) VA/TA chip
SLIDE 16 Data taking started on Oct.7...
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time(µs) 2.0 –0.5 1.0 0.5 1.5 Events (arb. unit)
ID Entries Mean RMS 8220 3092 19.07 8.641 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
100 20 40 80 60 p.e./cm Arbitrary unit
Light yield for MIP (Cosmic-ray µ) @40cm from PMT Timing of first hit in beam event after tracking
Extensive calibration work
Gain, timing, alignment... Software development (traking, MC simulation tuning) started So far, SciBar looks working as expected (=excellent performance!!)
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Preliminary
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Event Gallery
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Neutrino event (1)
ADC TDC (in-time)
Top view Side view
ν beam
MRD MRD
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Top view
Neutrino event (2)
Side view
ADC TDC (in-time) ν beam
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Neutrino event (3)
vertex!
Top view Side view
NC pi0 cand.
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E-catcher E-catcher
Neutrino event(4)
Top view Side view νe candidate
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SciBar is Full-active (15t total volume) Fine-grained (1.3x2.5cm) detector for precise studies of ν interaction Stably working for one month, data quality looks excellent Still lots of work (and fun) to be done, but making rapid progress towards physics results
Summary
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Backup Slides
SLIDE 24 Extruded Scintillator
- Mix poly-stylene with PPO 1%, POPOP 0.3%
– Maximum of emission spectrum : 420nm
- 1.3 x 2.6 x 300 cm3
- 1.8mm diameter hole at the center
- TiO2 coating (t0.25mm)
– As a reflector – Extruded together
2.5cm 1.3cm 300cm
Light yield uniformity <5%
SLIDE 25 Wavelength Shifting Fiber
Scintillation Secondary emission Charged particle 400 500 600
Y11(200)MS 1.5mm diam.
- Attenuation length : 3.6m
- Absorption peak
– 430nm
– 476nm
SLIDE 26 Gain monitoring w/ LED
(4) (56×4)
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Pedestal(Main Part) Page1
view0:layer0:strip0
run pedestal(count)
view0:layer0:strip1
run pedestal(count)
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run Gain(ADC/PIN)
+2%
Stability of gain
SLIDE 29 VA/TA readout chip
multiplexer sample&hold slow shaper preamp. fast shaper discri.
CH1 CH2 CH32
VA serial output TA (32ch OR)
(energy information) (trigger, timing information)
~1µs
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Proton ID w/ dE/dx
Proton
Beam test w/ prototype, 1 cell only p (GeV/c) p.e./layer p/pi separation w/ <10% mis-ID below 1.2GeV/c possible by more sampling points
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Proton momentum w/ dE/dx
10% precision w/ dE/dx only