Speaker
Elena Gramellini
(Yale University)
Description
The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) represents one of
the most advanced experimental technologies for physics at the
Intensity Frontier due to its full 3D-imaging, excellent particle
identification (PID) and precise calorimetric energy reconstruction.
By deploying LArTPCs in a dedicated calibration test beam line at
Fermilab, the LArIAT program aims to experimentally calibrate this
technology in a controlled environment. For LArIAT
phase-I, the physics measurements will focus on the analysis of
electromagnetic shower reconstruction for electron-gamma separation,
the determination of the muon sign in the absence of magnetic field
via its capture on nuclei, the study of nuclear effects
such as pion and kaon characteristic interaction modes and
antiproton annihilation in LAr. Moreover, a new concept for LAr
Scintillation Light Collection in neutrino detectors which will allow
a uniform connection of the scintillation light wrt to the deposited
energy has been developed to improve the calorimetric energy
resolution. The LArIAT exploration of the LArTPC capabilities will
serve the double purpose of improving this technology and providing
physics results relevant to the neutrino oscillation physics and
proton decay searches of the SBN and LBN programs.
Primary author
Elena Gramellini
(Yale University)