Published July 11, 2000
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Journal article
Determination of through-going tracks' direction by means of δ-rays in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber
Creators
- Arneodo, F.
- Baiboussinov, B.
- Badertscher, A.
- Battistoni, G.
- Benetti, P.
- Bernardini, E.
- Borio di Tigliole, A.
- Brunetti, P.
- Bueno, A.
- Calligarich, E.
- Campanelli, M.
- Carpanese, C.
- Cavalli, D.
- Cavanna, F.
- Cennini, P.
- Centro, S.
- Cesana, A.
- Cline, D.
- Dolfini, R.
- Ferrari, A.
- Gigli Berzolari, A.
- Matthey, C.
- Mauri, F.
- Mazza, D.
- Mazzone, L.
- Meng, G.
- Montanari, C.
- Nurzia, G.
- Otwinowski, S.
- Palamara, O.
- Pascoli, D.
- Pepato, A.
- Petrera, S.
- Periale, L.
- Piano Mortari, G.
- Piazzoli, A.
- Picchi, P.
- Pietropaolo, F.
- Rancati, T.
- Rappoldi, A.
- Raselli, G.L.
- Rebuzzi, D.
- Revol, J.P.
- Rico, J.
- Rossella, M.
- Rossi, C.
- Rubbia, A.
- Rubbia, C.
- Sala, P.
- Scannicchio, D.
- Sergiampietri, F.
- Terrani, M.
- Torre, P.
- Ventura, S.
- Vignoli, C.
- Wang, H.
- Woo, J.
- Xu, Z.
Description
We exploited the crossing muon data, collected in the 50 l liquid argon TPC exposed at the CERN neutrino beam in 1997, to investigate the possibility of identifying the direction of minimum ionizing particle tracks relying only on δ-rays orientation. In this note we show that simple selection criteria allow using δ-rays down to very low energy (few MeV) with high efficiency and no misidentification of their direction. The Monte Carlo prediction - two recognized δ-rays per meter of track - is very well matched by the result of the scanning of the experimental data
Additional details
Identifiers
- PII
- S0168900299013844;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 449
- Journal Issue
- 1-2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 42-47
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Ukraine
- INIS RN
- 34051344
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ARGON; DELTA RAYS; DETECTION; DRIFT CHAMBERS; MEV RANGE 01-10; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE TRACKS
- Descriptors DEC
- CALCULATION METHODS; ELEMENTS; ENERGY RANGE; FLUIDS; GASES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MEV RANGE; MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS; NONMETALS; PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; RARE GASES
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.