24–25 Aug 2020
US/Central timezone

Simple Charge and Flash Matching to better constrain cosmic background in SBN’s near and far detectors.

24 Aug 2020, 11:00
15m

Speaker

Iker de Icaza Astiz (University of Sussex)

Description

The SBN program is made up of three liquid argon time projection chambers detectors on the Booster Neutrino Beam line at Fermilab. It will probe neutrino oscillations at the ∼1𝑒𝑉2 scale, addressing tensions pointing to the possible existence of sterile neutrinos. SBND and ICARUS are the near and far detectors at 110 m and 600 m from the source, with a mass of 112 tons and 476 tons; respectively. Being at the surface means that one of the main background sources are cosmic rays. This talk presents a straightforward method common to both detectors to match the reconstructed charge with light read-out information in order to decrease the cosmogenic background and to better identify neutrino induced interactions.

Primary author

Iker de Icaza Astiz (University of Sussex)

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