CAPTAIN-Miner?a. Neutrino-Argon Scattering in a Medium-Energy Neutrino Beam [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.39 Computer engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Los Alamos, N.M. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2015
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 62 p. : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 268176
• Chủ đề: 1. 43 particle accelerators; 2. 46 instrumentation related to nuclear science and technology; 3. 73 nuclear physics and radiation physics; 4. Argon; 5. Neutrino beams

Tóm tắt

The NuMI facility at Fermilab is currently providing an extremely intense beam of neutrinos for the NO?A, MINER?A and MINOS+ experiments. By installing the 5-ton CAPTAIN liquid argon TPC in front of the MINER?A detector in the NuMI beamline and combining the data from the CAPTAIN, MINER?A and MINOS+ detectors, a broad program of few-GeV neutrino cross section measurements on argon can be pursued. These measurements will be extremely helpful for future oscillation experiments. By directly comparing the cross sections on argon to MINER?A?s scintillator (CH) target, a new level of precision can be achieved in the measurements of the effects of the nucleus on neutrino interactions. These effects are of interest to not only the particle physics but also the nuclear physics community. This document describes in detail the physics goals of the CAPTAIN-MINER?A experiment, in addition to a first estimate of the technical resources required to install, commission and operate the CAPTAIN detector in front of the MINERVA detector.