Calibration and simulation of ionization signal and electronics noise in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber

The ICARUS collaboration

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Calibration and simulation of ionization signal and electronics noise in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber

The ICARUS collaboration

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Abstract

The ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector has been taking physics data since 2022 as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. This paper details the equalization of the response to charge in the ICARUS time projection chamber (TPC), as well as data-driven tuning of the simulation of ionization charge signals and electronics noise. The equalization procedure removes non-uniformities in the ICARUS TPC response to charge in space and time. This work leverages the copious number of cosmic ray muons available to ICARUS at the surface. The ionization signal shape simulation applies a novel procedure that tunes the simulation to match what is measured in data. The end result of the equalization procedure and simulation tuning allows for a comparison of charge measurements in ICARUS between Monte Carlo simulation and data, showing good performance with minimal residual bias between the two.

Original language	English
Article number	P01032
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	20
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/20/01/P01032
State	Published - Jan 1 2025
Externally published	Yes

Funding

This document was prepared by the ICARUS Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the US Department of Energy, INFN,EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 734303, 822185, 858199 and 101003460, and the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 101081478 Part of the work resulted from the implementation of the research Project No. 2019/33/N/ST2/02874 funded by the National Science Centre, Poland. We also acknowledge the contribution of many SBND colleagues, in particular for the development of a number of simulation, reconstruction and analysis tools which are shared within the SBN Program.

Keywords

Neutrino detectors
Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase)
Time projection chambers
dE/dx detectors

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Calibration and simulation of ionization signal and electronics noise in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber

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