Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aps..aprb17023r&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The MiniBooNE experiment will unambiguously confirm or refute the existence of the neutrino oscillation signal seen by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) Experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory. MiniBooNE will search for the appearance of electron neutrinos in a beam of muon neutrinos. The MiniBooNE detector is a 12 m diameter sphere filled with mineral oil and instrumented with photomultiplier tubes. The properties of the mineral oil chosen to fill this Čerenkov detector will be important to the experiment. Both the attenuation of light across the detector and the index of refraction of the oil are important properties that must be known in order to properly model the detector. Index of refraction measurements were made in order to determine the Čerenkov angle and the dispersion for each oil. Attenuation tests were performed to find an oil with maximal attenuation length and with no abnormal absorption features. Measurements made at Fermilab of some of the oil properties will be presented. Based on the results of these tests (and a price within budget constraints), Marcol 7 oil was selected for the MiniBooNE experiment.
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