Photomultiplier tube testing for the MiniBooNE experiment
2001
The recent discoveries in the neutrino sector in the Standard Model have opened a new frontier in high-energy physics. Understanding neutrinos and how they interact is crucial to continuing to verify the Standard Model and look beyond Standard Model physics. The MiniBooNE experiment is a /spl nu/~/sub /spl mu// /spl rarr/ /spl nu/~/sub e/ oscillation search designed to confirm or rule out the neutrino oscillation signal seen by the LSND experiment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The MiniBooNE detector, a sphere filled with mineral oil and lined with 8-in Hamamatsu photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), uses Cerenkov imaging to identify /spl nu//sub /spl mu// and /spl nu//sub e/ interactions. The PMTs are the main detector component and must be well understood. They underwent a series of tests to determine their functionality and figures of merit in order to be placed in the detector, as described here.
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