Design and performance of the readout system of the MINOS far detector

Author

Oliver, J. ; Felt, N. ; Feldman, G. ; Lebedev, A. ; Lee, R.

Author_Institution

High Energy Phys. Lab., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

51

Issue

5

fYear

2004

Firstpage

2193

Lastpage

2195

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, MN. 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

neutrino detection; neutrino oscillations; optical fibres; particle calorimetry; photomultipliers; readout electronics; solid scintillation detectors; 735 km; Fermilab; MINOS far detector; MINOS near detector; Soudan mine; intense neutrino beam; iron/scintillator tracking calorimeter; long baseline search; multianode photomultiplier tubes; neutrino oscillations; optical fibers; performance measurements; readout system design; Anodes; Channel bank filters; Detectors; Dynamic range; Instruments; Iron; Measurement; Neutrino sources; Optical fibers; Photomultipliers; Far Detector; MINOS; neutrino oscillation; readout;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2004.834704

Filename

1344307