R&D Effort for Plastic Scintillator Based Cosmic Ray Veto System for the Mu2e Experiment

11 Jun 2011, 15:00
20m
Superior A (Sheraton Hotel)

Superior A

Sheraton Hotel

Oral Presentation Detectors for neutrino physics Detector for Neutrinos

Speaker

Dr Yuri Oksuzian (University of Virginia)

Description

The proposed Mu2e experiment aims to search for neutrinoless muon to electron conversion with a sensitivity four orders of magnitude better than previous experiments. To achieve this goal, Mu2e needs to obtain a cosmic ray veto efficiency of better than 99.9%. Here we report the preliminary results of recent R&D efforts for a three-layer plastic scintillator veto system. The results are obtained from the studies of a PMT-based prototype module and single scintillator counter read out by SiPMs.

Author

Dr Yuri Oksuzian (University of Virginia)

Presentation materials