费米实验室短基线中微子项目中的伊卡洛斯探测器：初始运行

ICARUS at the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino program: initial operation.

作者信息

Abratenko P, Aduszkiewicz A, Akbar F, Pons M Artero, Asaadi J, Aslin M, Babicz M, Badgett W F, Bagby L F, Baibussinov B, Behera B, Bellini V, Beltramello O, Benocci R, Berger J, Berkman S, Bertolucci S, Bertoni R, Betancourt M, Bettini M, Biagi S, Biery K, Bitter O, Bonesini M, Boone T, Bottino B, Braggiotti A, Brailsford D, Bremer J, Brice S J, Brio V, Brizzolari C, Brown J, Budd H S, Calaon F, Campani A, Carber D, Carneiro M, Terrazas I Caro, Carranza H, Casazza D, Castellani L, Castro A, Centro S, Cerati G, Chalifour M, Chambouvet P, Chatterjee A, Cherdack D, Cherubini S, Chithirasreemadam N, Cicerchia M, Cicero V, Coan T, Cocco A G, Convery M R, Copello S, Cristaldo E, Dange A A, de Icaza Astiz I, De Roeck A, Di Domizio S, Di Noto L, Di Stefano C, Di Ferdinando D, Diwan M, Dolan S, Domine L, Donati S, Doubnik R, Drielsma F, Dyer J, Dytman S, Fabre C, Fabris F, Falcone A, Farnese C, Fava A, Ferguson H, Ferrari A, Ferraro F, Gallice N, Garcia F G, Geynisman M, Giarin M, Gibin D, Gigli S G, Gioiosa A, Gu W, Guerzoni M, Guglielmi A, Gurung G, Hahn S, Hardin K, Hausner H, Heggestuen A, Hilgenberg C, Hogan M, Howard B, Howell R, Hrivnak J, Iliescu M, Ingratta G, James C, Jang W, Jung M, Jwa Y-J, Kashur L, Ketchum W, Kim J S, Koh D-H, Kose U, Larkin J, Laurenti G, Lukhanin G, Marchini S, Marshall C M, Martynenko S, Mauri N, Mazzacane A, McFarland K S, Méndez D P, Menegolli A, Meng G, Miranda O G, Mladenov D, Mogan A, Moggi N, Montagna E, Montanari C, Montanari A, Mooney M, Moreno-Granados G, Mueller J, Naples D, Nebot-Guinot M, Nessi M, Nichols T, Nicoletto M, Norris B, Palestini S, Pallavicini M, Paolone V, Papaleo R, Pasqualini L, Patrizii L, Peghin R, Petrillo G, Petta C, Pia V, Pietropaolo F, Poirot J, Poppi F, Pozzato M, Prata M C, Prosser A, Putnam G, Qian X, Rampazzo G, Rappoldi A, Raselli G L, Rechenmacher R, Resnati F, Ricci A M, Riccobene G, Rice L, Richards E, Rigamonti A, Rosenberg M, Rossella M, Rubbia C, Sala P, Sapienza P, Savage G, Scaramelli A, Scarpelli A, Schmitz D, Schukraft A, Sergiampietri F, Sirri G, Smedley J S, Soha A K, Spanu M, Stanco L, Stewart J, Suarez N B, Sutera C, Tanaka H A, Tenti M, Terao K, Terranova F, Togo V, Torretta D, Torti M, Tortorici F, Tosi N, Tsai Y-T, Tufanli S, Turcato M, Usher T, Varanini F, Ventura S, Vercellati F, Vicenzi M, Vignoli C, Viren B, Warner D, Williams Z, Wilson R J, Wilson P, Wolfs J, Wongjirad T, Wood A, Worcester E, Worcester M, Wospakrik M, Yu H, Yu J, Zani A, Zatti P G, Zennamo J, Zettlemoyer J C, Zhang C, Zucchelli S, Zuckerbrot M

机构信息

Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 USA.

University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204 USA.

出版信息

Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2023;83(6):467. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11610-y. Epub 2023 Jun 4.

DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11610-y

PMID:37303462

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10239613/

Abstract

The ICARUS collaboration employed the 760-ton T600 detector in a successful 3-year physics run at the underground LNGS laboratory, performing a sensitive search for LSND-like anomalous appearance in the CERN Neutrino to Gran Sasso beam, which contributed to the constraints on the allowed neutrino oscillation parameters to a narrow region around 1 eV. After a significant overhaul at CERN, the T600 detector has been installed at Fermilab. In 2020 the cryogenic commissioning began with detector cool down, liquid argon filling and recirculation. ICARUS then started its operations collecting the first neutrino events from the booster neutrino beam (BNB) and the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam off-axis, which were used to test the ICARUS event selection, reconstruction and analysis algorithms. ICARUS successfully completed its commissioning phase in June 2022. The first goal of the ICARUS data taking will be a study to either confirm or refute the claim by Neutrino-4 short-baseline reactor experiment. ICARUS will also perform measurement of neutrino cross sections with the NuMI beam and several Beyond Standard Model searches. After the first year of operations, ICARUS will search for evidence of sterile neutrinos jointly with the Short-Baseline Near Detector, within the Short-Baseline Neutrino program. In this paper, the main activities carried out during the overhauling and installation phases are highlighted. Preliminary technical results from the ICARUS commissioning data with the BNB and NuMI beams are presented both in terms of performance of all ICARUS subsystems and of capability to select and reconstruct neutrino events.

摘要

ICARUS合作团队在位于地下的LNGS实验室使用了760吨重的T600探测器，成功进行了为期3年的物理运行，对欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）的中微子束向大萨索山（Gran Sasso）传输过程中类似LSND实验的异常现象进行了灵敏搜索，这有助于将允许的中微子振荡参数限制在1电子伏特左右的狭窄区域内。在CERN进行重大检修后，T600探测器已安装在费米实验室（Fermilab）。2020年，低温调试工作随着探测器冷却、液氩填充和再循环开始。随后，ICARUS开始运行，收集来自助推器中微子束（BNB）和主注入器脱轴中微子束（NuMI）的首批中微子事件，这些事件用于测试ICARUS的事件选择、重建和分析算法。ICARUS于2022年6月成功完成调试阶段。ICARUS数据采集的首要目标将是一项研究，以证实或反驳中微子-4短基线反应堆实验的相关说法。ICARUS还将利用NuMI束测量中微子截面，并进行多项超出标准模型的搜索。在运行的第一年之后，ICARUS将在短基线中微子计划内，与短基线近探测器联合搜索惰性中微子的证据。本文重点介绍了检修和安装阶段开展的主要活动。文中展示了ICARUS利用BNB和NuMI束进行调试数据时的初步技术成果，包括所有ICARUS子系统的性能以及选择和重建中微子事件的能力。