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Scintillating fiber trackers with optoelectronic readout for the CHORUS neutrino experiment S. Aoki e, J. Dupont d, J. Dupraz d, J.-P. Fabre d, W. Flegel d, D . Frekers g, B. Friend G. Gregoire f, M. Gruwé c, H. Heynitz g, K. Hiller ', K. Höpfner b, J. Konijn V. Lemaitre f, P. Lendermann b, *, R. Meijer Drees d, L. Michel f, C. Mommaert °, M. Nakamura ', P. Nappey d, K. Niwa ', J. Panman d, R. Pintus d, S. Reynaud d, F. Riccardi h, G. Stefanini d , G. Van Beek `, P. Vilain `, J.L. Visschers G. Wilquet K. Winter d, H.T. Wong d
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The CERN WA95/CHORUS collaboration has been constructing a hybrid detector to search for (v,,-v,)-oscillations . An essential component of the detector is a scintillating fiber tracking system for precise track reconstruction of particles. The physics motivation is explained, and the detector layout, the tracker design, its optoelectronic readout and test beam results are presented.
1. Physics motivation and concept The question whether neutrino flavours mix at some level and the related question whether neutrinos have non-zero mass is one of the remaining great challenges in experimental particle physics [1]. The objective of the CHORUS experiment at CERN is to search for neutrino oscillations in the v, - v. appearance channel in the CERN SPS wideband neutrino beam [2]. The construction and first tests of the detector in the neutrino beam will be completed by the end of 1993, data taking will start in 1994. The search for (vL-v,)-oscillations is based on the detection of the charged current reaction v,N -> -r-X in a background of v,,-induced interactions . The neutrinos from the subsequent decay of the -r - create a missing transverse momentum. Because of the small lifetime of the 3 X 10 -13 s) the use of nuclear T-
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emulsion as a target is essential in order to obtain the spatial resolution necessary to detect the decay vertex . For an event candidate with missing transverse momentum the region to be scanned in the emulsion is determined with a system of scintillating fiber trackers . Changeable emulsion sheets between the fiber arrays and the bulk emulsion blocks serve as a tracker/emulsion interface, they will be replaced every three weeks to keep the beam muon background in the regions to be scanned at an acceptable level . Using computer assisted microscopes one can then find the primary vertex in the bulk emulsion from where the search for the decay kink is finally performed (Fig . 1) . The sensitivity of the CHORUS Experiment is displayed in Fig. 2. In the case (v9-vT)-oscillations would occur close to the present limit for the oscillation parameters, it should be possible to observe around 70 events (and 0.4 background events) in two years beamtime . However, if there are no oscillations, the present limit for sine 20, at large AM2 will be improved by a factor of 16 . 111. TRACKING AND VERTEX DETECTORS
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the magnet will be placed in a "cold box" at 5°C, to reduce fading of tracks in the emulsion as well as ageing of the scintillating fibers. Together with the calorimeter and the muon spectrometer, this setup allows an efficient kinematical selection of v,N event candidates and a significant reduction of the number of events to be scanned in the emulsion by one order of magnitude.
3. The scintillating fiber trackers The bottom part of a target module is displayed in Fig. 5. Each of the four trackers consists of two pairs of projection planes, separated by 10 mm of honeycomb support structure. The two projections of each pair are turned by 90 degrees with respect to each other, the second pair is turned with respect to the first one by _+ 120 mrad in order to be able to resolve track ambiguities. Each projection plane consists of seven layers of staggered scintillating plastic fibers (Fig . 6) [3]. The fibers have a length of 220 cm, and a diameter of 500 Wm, the thickness of one projection plane is about 3.2 mm . Each fiber layer is painted with a Ti0 2 based white paint which acts both as a glue and an extramural absorber to avoid crosstalk between fibers. The far end of the ribbons is equipped with an aluminiumsputtered mirror . The design of the optoelectronic readout of the magnet tracker is identical to that of the target tracker, the fibers have the same diameter and they form projection planes with the same thickness . Each of the three hexagonal-shaped trackers consists of six paddles forming two projection planes .
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tains 228 X 550 pixels . Taking the total demagnification into account, the pixel size of 16 wm X 23 wm corresponds to a ratio of - 4 pixels per fiber. The CCD sensor contains an image zone and a memory zone with an antiblooming gate in the image zone to provide a 1 ws fast clear. The transfer time from the image to the memory zone is - 120 [Ls, while the read out, performed during the interburst interval of the neutrino beam, takes about - 20 ms . Therefore the system can read out two events per burst. For the readout of all hodoscopes 58 optoelectronic chains are needed . The coupling of the fiber ribbons to the chains is displayed in Fig. 8 for all planes of one projection including the corresponding planes turned by ± 120 mrad . The endface of each projection plane is subdivided into 20 subsequent substrips, 16 strips are coupled to one optoelectronic chain. The distance of
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[1] K. Winter (ed .), Neutrino Physics (Cambridge University Press, 1991). [2] N. Armenise et al ., CHORUS Proposal, CERNSPSLC/90-42 (1990) . [31 Kuraray SCSF38, Kuraray Co . Ltd., Japan. [4] Image intensifier suppliers: (100/25) electrostatic Hamamatsu Photonics, Japan; (25/25) and (25/11) electrostatic - Delft Electronische Producten (DEP), The Netherlands ; (25/25) MCP - Proxitronic Funk GmbH & Co ., Germany. [5] Thomson TH7864 CCD sensor, Thomson, France .