Analysis of a large sample of neutrino-induced muons with the ArgoNeuT detector

作者：Anderson C; Antonello M; Baller B; Bolton T; Bromberg C; Cavanna F; Church E; Edmunds D; Ereditato A; Farooq S; Fleming B; Greenlee H; Guenette R; Haug S; Horton Smith G; James C; Klein E; Lang K; Laurens P; Linden S; McKee D; Mehdiyev R; Page B; Palamara O; Partyka K; Rameika G; Rebel B; Rossi B; Soderberg M^*; Spitz J; Szelc A M; Weber M; Yang T; Zeller G P

来源：Journal of Instrumentation, 2012, 7(10): P10020.

DOI：10.1088/1748-0221/7/10/P10020

• Time projection Chambers (TPC)
• Noble-liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization two-phase)
• Data analysis

ArgoNeuT, or Argon Neutrino Test, is a 170 liter liquid argon time projection chamber designed to collect neutrino interactions from the NuMI beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. ArgoNeuT operated in the NuMI low-energy beam line directly upstream of the MINOS Near Detector from September 2009 to February 2010, during which thousands of neutrino and anti-neutrino events were collected. The MINOS Near Detector was used to measure muons down-stream of ArgoNeuT. Though ArgoNeuT is primarily an R%26D project, the data collected provide a unique opportunity to measure neutrino cross sections in the 0.1-10 GeV energy range. Fully reconstructing the muon from these interactions is imperative for these measurements. This paper focuses on the complete kinematic reconstruction of neutrino-induced through-going muons tracks. Analysis of this high statistics sample of minimum ionizing tracks demonstrates the reliability of the geometric and calorimetric reconstruction in the ArgoNeuT detector.

• 出版日期2012-10