2015/04/30 by A. Perch, Perch, Andrew
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle Detector Development and Performance
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1505.00042
openalex publication_date 2015/04/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
During the summer of 2014, the CHIPS collaboration constructed and deployed CHIPS-M, a 26 ton prototype water Cherenkov detector in a flooded mine pit in Northern Minnesota, 7mrad off-axis from the NuMI neutrino beam. The detector will be recovered in summer 2015 after taking cosmic ray data throughout the winter to test the structure and materials, and the water filtration and pumping system. Geant4 simulations of generic water Cherenkov detectors with a variety of PMT types and layouts will be used to guide the design of a 10 kiloton module, intended to provide complementary information to current experiments on δCP, and chart a course towards cheaper large neutrino detectors.