A B4C-silicon target for the detection of neutrino interactions

Barichello, G Cervera-Villanueva, A Daniels, DC Silva, EDE Dumps, L Ellis, M Ferrere, D Gomez-Cadenas, JJ Gossling, C Gouanere, M Hernando, JA Huta, W Jimenez, JM Kokkonen, J Kuznetsov, VE Linssen, L Long, J Lisowski, B Lupi, A Runolfsson, O Schmidt, B Soler, FJP Steele, D Stipcevic, M Veltri, M Voillat, D

G. Barichello et al., A B4C-silicon target for the detection of neutrino interactions, NUCL INST A, 419(1), 1998, pp. 1-15

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This note describes the construction of a target for neutrino interactions composed of passive boron carbide plates interleaved with silicon microstri p detectors. The target contains four layers of passive material With a tot al mass of 45 kg and 600 single-sided silicon microstrip detectors with a t otal surface of 1.14 m(2) distributed over five layers. It is installed in the NOMAD spectrometer at the CERN SPS neutrino beam. During the 1997 run a bout 8000v(mu) charged current interactions were estimated to have occurred in the target. For these events it will be possible to perform a precise m easurement of both vertex and kinematical variables. This will provide inva luable experience towards the construction of a future large-scale silicon tracker for neutrino oscillation experiments. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V . All rights reserved.