MINERvA neutrino detector response measured with test beam data

• Autores: Aliaga L., Altinok O., Araujo Del Castillo C., Bagby L., Bellantoni L., Bergan W.F., Bodek A., Bradford R., Bravar A., Budd H., Butkevich A., Martinez Caicedo D.A., Carneiro M.F., Christy M.E., Chvojka J., Da Motta H., Devan J., Díaz G.A., Dytman S.A., Eberly B., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Flight R., Gago A.M., Gingu C., Golan T., Gomez A., Gran R., Harris D.A., Higuera A., Howley I.J., Hurtado K., Kleykamp J., Kordosky M., Lanari M., Le T., Leister A.J., Lovlein A., Maher E., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., McFarland K.S., McGivern C.L., McGowan A.M., Messerly B., Miller J., Miller W., Mislivec A., Morfín J.G., Mousseau J., Muhlbeier T., Naples D., Nelson J.K., Norrick A., Ochoa N., O'Connor C.D., Osmanov B., Osta J., Paolone V., Patrick C.E., Patrick L., Perdue G.N., Pérez Lara C.E., Rakotondravohitra L., Ray H., Ren L., Rodrigues P.A., Rubinov P., Rude C.R., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Schmitz D.W., Solano Salinas C.J., Tagg N., Tice B.G., Urrutia Z., Valencia E., Walton T., Westerberg A., Wolcott J., Woodward N., Wospakrik M., Zavala G., Zhang D., Ziemer B.P.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2015
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación
• Repositorio: CONCYTEC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.concytec.gob.pe:20.500.12390/696
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/696; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.04.003
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Uncertainty analysis; Calorimeters; Calorimetry; Extraction; Hadrons; Intelligent systems; Monte Carlo methods; Birks law; Cross-section measurement; Detector simulations; Electromagnetic calorimetry; Hadron calorimetry; Sampling calorimeters

The MINERvA collaboration operated a scaled-down replica of thesolid scintillator tracking and sampling calorimeter regions of the MINERvA detector in a hadron test beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. This paper reports measurements with samples of protons, pions, and electrons from 0.35 to 2.0 GeV/c momentum. The calorimetric response to protons, pions, and electrons is obtained from these data. A measurement of the parameter in Birks' law and an estimate of the tracking efficiency are extracted from the proton sample. Overall the data are well described by a Geant4-based Monte Carlo simulation of the detector and particle interactions with agreements better than 4% for the calorimetric response, though some features of the data are not precisely modeled. These measurements are used to tune the MINERvA detector simulation and evaluate systematic uncertainties in support of the MINERvA neutrino crosssection measurement program.