2015/11/01 by W. Foreman, Foreman, William
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1511.00305
openalex publication_date 2015/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
LArIAT (Liquid Argon In A Testbeam) aims to characterize the response of a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) to the particles often seen as final-state products of ~1 GeV neutrino interactions in existing and planned detectors. The experiment uses the ArgoNeuT cryostat and its refurbished 170-liter-active-volume TPC placed in a tunable tertiary beamline produced from a high-energy pion beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF). The TPC was modified to accommodate cold readout electronics and a light collection system. The first run took place May-June of 2015, and the collected data will help in understanding electron recombination behavior, shower reconstruction, particle identification, muon sign determination, pion and kaon interactions in argon, and the use of scintillation light for calorimetry.