Construction of Anode Plane Detectors for the protoDUNE-SP project at CERN
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
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Planned Impact
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Publications
Abi B
(2020)
First results on ProtoDUNE-SP liquid argon time projection chamber performance from a beam test at the CERN Neutrino Platform
in Journal of Instrumentation
| Description | We implemented and validated methods and techniques to manufacture very large are (15 square meters) of very precisely located thin wires (wire diameter 150 micrometers, 3500 segments with total length of 25 km, position in all 3 dimensions to an accuracy of 0.5 mm) for the detection of ionisation charge in huge liquid argon particle detectors; we developed and implemented a quality control scheme and the associated quality checks and the we deployed the devices that we made in a large detector at CERN and demonstrated through the physics performance of that detector that our devices met or surpassed the requirements set on them at design time. |
| Exploitation Route | Our design and construction method for large area, high signal-to-noise ratio, mm-level space resolution wire chambers for use in a cryogenic medium will be used by the DUNE mega-project in the USA in the search for matter-antimatter asymmetries in neutrinos. It can be also implemented for experiments searching for Dark Matter, cosmic-origin neutrinos, and phenomena predicted by new physics models beyond the standard model of particle physics. |
| Sectors | Other |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07081 |
| Description | The successful construction of the devices (APAs), their timely integration in the ProtoDUNE experiment at CERN, and the resounding success of this experiment have generated a lot of publicity international thus raising awareness about neutrino research among the public, including many school students who visited the facility at CERN, on open days at Fermilab and SURF in the USA, and on open days at Daresbury and Rutherford lab in the UK. |
| Sector | Other |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | CERN Neutrino Facility (CENF) |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | CERN - Other |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I am co-spokesperson (leader) of the protoDUNE-SP experiment at CENF (CERN experiment NP04). Karol Hennessy from my team is NP04 Data Acquisition co-coordinator. Engineers and technicians from my Liverpool neutrino group are participating in the construction of APAs at Daresbury Laboratory. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CENF has constructed a 800-ton cryostat for Liquid Argon and its cryogenic systems, infrastructure for he experiment, elements for the TPC such as Field Cages, Data Acquisition and computing resources for the data analysis. |
| Impact | N/A. experiment in construction. |
| Start Year | 2016 |