Speaker
Richa Sharma
(Panjab University, Chandigarh/ Fermilab)
Description
The MINOS detectors are steel-scintillator sampling tracking calorimeters
and are calibrated using an in-situ light-injection system and cosmic ray muons. The MINOS near and far detectors have been operating almost continuously since 2003 and 2005, providing opportunity to quantify the behavior of the various detector components, many of which are used in the next generation neutrino oscillation experiments, under long-term experimental operation. We will report on the calibration procedure and its stability, as well as the time and temperature dependencies of the scintillator, wavelength-shifting fibers and photo-multiplier tubes.
Primary author
Richa Sharma
(Panjab University, Chandigarh/ Fermilab)