Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
Pub Date
2015
Volume
789
First Page
28
Abstract
The MINERvA collaboration operated a scaled down replica of the solid scintillator tracking and sampling calorimeter regions of the MlNERvA detector in a hadron test beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. This paper reports measurements with samples of protons, pions, and electrons from 0.35 to 2.0 GeV/c momentum. The calorimetric response to protons, pions, and electrons is obtained from these data. A measurement of the parameter in Birks' law and an estimate of the tracking efficiency are extracted from the proton sample. Overall the data are well described by a Geant4-based Monte Carlo simulation of the detector and particle interactions with agreements better than 4% for the calorimetric response, though some features of the data are not precisely modeled. These measurements are used to tune the MINERvA detector simulation and evaluate systematic uncertainties in support of the MINERvA neutrino cross-section measurement program. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Recommended Citation
Aliaga, L.; Bergan, W. F.; Devan, J.; Howley, I. J.; Kordosky, M.; Leister, A. J.; Nelson, J. K.; Norrick, A.; O'Connor, C. D.; Zhang, D.; Del Castillo, C. Araujo; Diaz, G. A.; and Gago, A. M., MINERvA neutrino detector response measured with test beam data (2015). Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, 789, 28-42.
10.1016/j.nima.2015.04.003
DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2015.04.003
