Title :
Design and performance of the readout system of the MINOS Far Detector
Author :
Oliver, J. ; Felt, N. ; Feldman, G. ; Lebedev, A. ; Lee, R.
Abstract :
The MINOS experiment is a long baseline search for neutrino oscillations in an intense neutrino beam produced at Fermilab. This beam is intercepted by two detectors; the Near Detector at Fermilab and the Far Detector located a distance of 735 km in a mine in Soudan, Minnesota. The Far Detector is an iron / scintillator tracking calorimeter comprising some 185,000 channels of optical fibers read out by multi-anode photomultiplier tubes. As of this writing, the MINOS Far Detector has been completely installed and instrumented with a readout system. The readout system, along with performance measurements, will be presented.
Keywords :
cosmic ray apparatus; cosmic ray neutrinos; neutrino oscillations; particle calorimetry; photomultipliers; 735 km; Fermilab; MINOS Far Detector; intense neutrino beam; long baseline search; multi-anode photomultiplier tubes; neutrino oscillations; readout system; Anodes; Channel bank filters; Detectors; Dynamic range; Instruments; Iron; Mesons; Neutrino sources; Optical fibers; Photomultipliers;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8257-9
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352031
