The design and construction of the Chips water Cherenkov neutrino detector

Chips (CHerenkov detectors In mine PitS) was a prototype large-scale water Cherenkov detector located in northern Minnesota. The main aim of the R&D project was to demonstrate that construction costs of neutrino oscillation detectors could be reduced by at least an order of magnitude compared to...

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Published in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Vol. 1069; p. 169894
Main Authors: Rancurel, B. Alonso, Angelides, N., Augustoni, G., Bash, S., Bergmann, B., Bertschinger, N., Bizouard, P., Campbell, M., Cao, S., Carroll, T.J., Castellan, R., Catano-Mur, E., Cesar, J.P., Coelho, J.A.B., Dills, P., Dodwell, T., Edmondson, J., van Eijk, D., Fetterly, Q., Garbal, Z., Germani, S., Gilpin, T., Giraudo, A., Habig, A., Hanuska, D., Hausner, H., Hernandez, W.Y., Holin, A., Huang, J., Jones, S.B., Karle, A., Kileff, G., Jenkins, K.R., Kooijman, P., Kreymer, A., Loving, D.A., LaFond, G.M., Lang, K., Lazar, J.P., Li, R., Liu, K., Mánek, P., Marshak, M.L., Meier, J.R., Miller, W., Nelson, J.K., Ng, C., Nichol, R.J., Paolone, V., Perch, A., Pfützner, M.M., Radovic, A., Rawlins, K., Roedl, P., Rogers, L., Safa, I., Sousa, A., Tingey, J., Thomas, J., Trokan-Tenorio, J., Vahle, P., Wade, R., Wendt, C., Wendt, D., Whitehead, L.H., Wolcott, S., Yuan, T.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Elsevier B.V 01-12-2024
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Summary:Chips (CHerenkov detectors In mine PitS) was a prototype large-scale water Cherenkov detector located in northern Minnesota. The main aim of the R&D project was to demonstrate that construction costs of neutrino oscillation detectors could be reduced by at least an order of magnitude compared to other equivalent experiments. This article presents design features of the Chips detector along with details of the implementation and deployment of the prototype. While issues during and after the deployment of the detector prevented data taking, a number of key concepts and designs were successfully demonstrated.
Bibliography:AC02-07CH11359
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
FERMILAB-PUB-24-0063-CSAID; arXiv:2401.11728
ISSN:0168-9002
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2024.169894