November 29, 2022 to December 2, 2022
Wang Center, Stony Brook University
US/Eastern timezone

The SBND photon detectors system

Nov 30, 2022, 1:55 PM
20m
Lecture Hall 1 (Wang Center)

Lecture Hall 1

Wang Center

Contribution Talk WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs) WG7: Photon Detectors (incl. CCDs)

Speakers

Andrew Blake (University of Lancaster) Raquel Castillo Fernandez (University of Texas at Arlington) Polina Abratenko (pabraten@fnal.gov) Rhiannon Jones (University of Sheffield) Vishvas Pandey (Fermilab)

Description

SBND is the near detector of the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab. Its near location (110 m) to the neutrino source and relatively large mass (112 ton active volume) will allow studying neutrino interactions on argon with unprecedented precision.
This talk focuses on the SBND Photon Detection System. It represents a major R&D opportunity for the LArTPC technology. Its design is a hybrid concept combining a primary system of 120 photomultiplier tubes, and a secondary system of 192 XARAPUCA devices, all of them located behind the anode plane. Furthermore, covering the cathode plane with highly reflective panels coated with a wavelength shifting compound recovers part of the light emitted towards the cathode, where no optical detectors exist. This new design provides high light-yield and more uniform detection efficiency, an excellent time resolution and an independent position reconstruction (including the drift coordinate) using only the scintillation light.

Primary authors

Andrew Blake (University of Lancaster) Raquel Castillo Fernandez (University of Texas at Arlington) Rhiannon Jones (University of Sheffield) Vishvas Pandey (Fermilab)

Presentation materials