Mineral oil tests for the MiniBooNE detector

Author

Raaf, J.L. ; Bazarko, A.O. ; Garvey, G.T. ; Hawker, E.A. ; Johnson, R.A. ; Mills, G.B. ; Pla-Dalmau, A. ; Tayloe, R.

Author_Institution

Cincinnati Univ., OH, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

Firstpage

564

Abstract

The MiniBooNE experiment will unambiguously confirm or refute the existence of the neutrino oscillation signal seen by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) Experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory. MiniBooNE will search for the appearance of electron neutrinos in a beam of muon neutrinos. The MiniBooNE detector is a 12 m diameter sphere filled with mineral oil and instrumented with photomultiplier tubes. The properties of the mineral oil chosen to fill this Cerenkov detector will be important to the experiment. The production of scintillation light in the oil, the attenuation of light across the detector, and the index of refraction of the oil are all important properties that must be known in order to properly model the detector. Fluorescence of the oil, optical dispersion, and oil density are also important quantities.

Keywords

Cherenkov counters; cosmic ray apparatus; fluorescence; neutrino detection; neutrino oscillations; optical dispersion; photomultipliers; 12 m; Cerenkov detector; MiniBooNE detector; fluorescence; mineral oil tests; neutrino oscillation signal; optical dispersion; photomultiplier tubes; scintillation light; Electron beams; Laboratories; Mesons; Minerals; Neutrino sources; Optical attenuators; Optical refraction; Petroleum; Solid scintillation detectors; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2001 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7324-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2001.1008520

Filename

1008520