A1 Journal article (refereed)
First results on ProtoDUNE-SP liquid argon time projection chamber performance from a beam test at the CERN Neutrino Platform (2020)

The DUNE collaboration. (2020). First results on ProtoDUNE-SP liquid argon time projection chamber performance from a beam test at the CERN Neutrino Platform. Journal of Instrumentation, 15(12), Article P12004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/12/p12004

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Publication details

All authors or editors: The DUNE collaboration

Journal or series: Journal of Instrumentation

eISSN: 1748-0221

Publication year: 2020

Volume: 15

Issue number: 12

Article number: P12004

Publisher: Institute of Physics

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/12/p12004

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/73217

Publication is parallel published: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02967

Abstract

The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber with an active volume of 7.2× 6.1× 7.0 m3. It is installed at the CERN Neutrino Platform in a specially-constructed beam that delivers charged pions, kaons, protons, muons and electrons with momenta in the range 0.3 GeV/c to 7 GeV/c. Beam line instrumentation provides accurate momentum measurements and particle identification. The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a prototype for the first far detector module of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, and it incorporates full-size components as designed for that module. This paper describes the beam line, the time projection chamber, the photon detectors, the cosmic-ray tagger, the signal processing and particle reconstruction. It presents the first results on ProtoDUNE-SP's performance, including noise and gain measurements, dE/dx calibration for muons, protons, pions and electrons, drift electron lifetime measurements, and photon detector noise, signal sensitivity and time resolution measurements. The measured values meet or exceed the specifications for the DUNE far detector, in several cases by large margins. ProtoDUNE-SP's successful operation starting in 2018 and its production of large samples of high-quality data demonstrate the effectiveness of the single-phase far detector design.

Keywords: particle physics; neutrinos; research equipment; detectors

Free keywords: large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase); time projection chambers (TPC)

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Ministry reporting: Yes

Reporting Year: 2020

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