2012/06/25 by S. Aoki, G. Barr, M. Batkiewicz +81 · 75 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Beam (structure) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Detector #Muon #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino detector #Neutrino oscillation #Nuclear physics #Optics #Physics #Proton #Scintillation #hep-ex #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nima.2012.10.001
published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment 698, 135-146 (Elsevier BV) · 13 pages, 19 figures v2: fixed several typos; fixed references
arxiv created 2012/06/25 · openalex publication_date 2012/10/09 · arxiv updated 2015/06/05 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The T2K experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment aiming to observe the appearance of ν e in a νμ beam. The νμ beam is produced at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), observed with the 295 km distant Super- Kamiokande Detector and monitored by a suite of near detectors at 280m from the proton target. The near detectors include a magnetized off-axis detector (ND280) which measures the un-oscillated neutrino flux and neutrino cross sections. The present paper describes the outermost component of ND280 which is a side muon range detector (SMRD) composed of scintillation counters with embedded wavelength shifting fibers and Multi-Pixel Photon Counter read-out. The components, performance and response of the SMRD are presented.