1 Steve Dye, John Learned , Shigenobu Matsuno, Marc Rosen, Michinari Sakai, Stefanie Smith, Gary Varner, and students Univ. of Hawaii: Plus some other colleagues elsewhere The mini-Time-Cube A Portable Directional Anti-Neutrino Detector Presentation at ANT11, Philadelphia, 10 October 2011
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Steve Dye, John Learned, Shigenobu Matsuno, Marc Rosen,
Michinari Sakai, Stefanie Smith, Gary Varner, and students
Univ. of Hawaii:
Plus some other colleagues elsewhere
The mini-Time-CubeA Portable Directional Anti-Neutrino Detector
Presentation at ANT11, Philadelphia, 10 October 2011
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mTC Idea Do imaging with (100 ps) fast timing, not optics (time reversal imaging).
Small portable 2.2 liter scintillating cube, Boron doped plastic.
4 x 6 MCP (x64 pixels each) fast pixel detectors on surrounding faces
Get neutrino directionality.
Reject noise on the fly.
~10/day anti-neutrino interactions (inverse beta decay signature) from power reactor (San Onofre).
13 cm
2.2 liter
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mTC Virtues
• Small size avoids positron annihilation gammas which smear resolution (Xo ~42 cm).... gammas mostly escape, permitting precise positron creation point location.
• Fast pixel timing (<100ps) and fast pipeline processing of waveforms rejects background in real time.
• Having many pixels plus use of first-in light permits mm precision in vertex locations.
• Neutrino directionality via precision positron production and neutron absorption locations.
• No need for shielding (unlike other detectors).
• Feasible even in high noise environment, near reactor vessel, at surface (eg. in a truck).
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Snapshot of the Fermat Surface for a Single Muon-likeTrackSnapshot of the Fermat Surface for a Single Muon-likeTrack
Track
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Incoherent sum coincident with
Cherenkov surface:Not polarized!
J. Learned arXiv:0902.4009v1
Time Reversal Image Reconstruction
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Hiroko Watanabe (Workshop Towards Neutrino Technologies 2009)
Directional Measurement
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2.40 cm γ radiation length.
2.α & triton stop ~immediately (mm).
Hiroko Watanabe (Workshop Towards Neutrino Technologies 2009)
Reactions in the Liquid Scintillator
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Hiroko Watanabe (Workshop Towards Neutrino Technologies 2009)
Neutrino Capture Nucleus Choices
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Hiroko Watanabe (Workshop Towards Neutrino Technologies 2009)
KamLAND resolution
KamLAND Calculations
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Study using KamLAND LS and Resolution
Hiroko Watanabe (Workshop Towards Neutrino Technologies 2009)
We can, in principle, do much better with mTC.
Much further gain possible if can sense first neutron elastic scattering location.
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Gammas Usually Leave mTC
Gamma from neutron inelastic capture
Gamma from positron annihilation
2m
Neutrino interaction point
Conclusion: Gammas from positron annihilation leave mTC detector without interaction, thus not confusing vertex resolution.
Mini-TimeCube
Inverse Beta Kinematics
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Trickier than you may realize...
The positron gets the kinetic energy and the neutron gets the momentum.
Neutron only gets15.75 keV mean, most to positron.
Average over reactor spectum
Plots by Stefanie Smith
We can select an event sample with good pointing
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Early neutrino captures point better
Early n captures: strong correlationbetween neutron and positron scattering angles.
Most early captures out ~ cm distance
Lower energies a little better
Some tentative conclusions on neutrino direction determination in mTC
Get interaction vertex to ~1 mm and positron directions using fast timing and first hit reconstruction.
Proton scatters by neutron would be most useful, but probably not enough light to reconstruct.
Neutron capture location determined best with 6 Lithium by detecting alpha and triton.
Can select golden events for best pointing. How good still TBD.
Maximally utilize full information, employing full MaxL, yet to be done.
We are exploring use of a neural network.
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Fitting the Positron Streak
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First mTC version using B loaded plastic scintillator
First casting with bubble from Eljen
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Mini-TimeCube + PMTs and Readout Electronics (Portable)
~43cm (<1’6”)
Volume ~ (2 ft)3
Weight < 30 kg
Plus separate processing electronics box.
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Examples of PMT Read-outs Developed by IDL, Hawaii (Gary Varner)
Fast waveform digitizer for the Photonis MCP is currently under development evolving from existing technology used in BELLE, BESS, ANITA. Length beyond photo-sensor will be ~125mm. One module per MCP.
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cPCI crate
cPCI CPU
Data Acquisition System (DAQ) Based on cPCI Format
3Gbs fiber link x 8
x3 (= 24 PMTs)
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MCP PMT and Digitizer Internet
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Mini Time Cube: 13cm3 Boron Loaded Plastic Scintillator
MTC with read-out electronics on one faceMTC fully populated with read-out electronics
38 cm
MTC within 2ft3 anodized Al enclosureStackable transport cases
Computer and DAQ
fits upper case
Detector and power supplies in lower case
The mTC Being Assembled
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Gas and RF tight box
UV laser illumination
Rosen design
Picosecond Calibration Laser System
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Matsuno/Rosen
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Estimate Real World Unshielded Noise Rate from Italian CORMORAD Experiment
Refer to CORMORAD talk given by Marco Battaglieri (Genoa) at Trieste 2009.
Prototype segmented detector of square logs of NE110 plastic scintillator, 3 inch PMTs on ends, 40x30x30 cm^3 total volume.
No shielding => big background, outside containment building.
CORMORAD noise rate near Romanian reactor: => R = ~120 Hz (single) => 2 x R^2 x τ = ~10 Hz
(for two hits in time window τ = 330μs)
mTC noise rate implications:≤ 1/30 vol. x 1/10 time resol. x CORM. rate
= few Hz in mTC
Similar numbers from 2 expts at San Onofre (info: LLNL/Sandia group and Juan Collar)
» good enough for real-time background analysis & rejection, with no shielding
Software rejection needed ~10^5 (< KamLAND)
”A proposal for a high segmented power reactor antineutrino detector”, Marco Battaglieri, July 13~17, 2009, Workshop Towards Neutrino Technologies”
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Mini-TimeCube Sensitivity(13cm^3 cube with 24 MCP's)