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Neutrino 2002, May 25-30, 2002, Munich Alec Habig The MINOS Far Detector Cosmic Rays and their neutrinos are being collected now. How does this work, and of what use is this data? The MINOS Experiment Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search Will utilize NuMI beam from Fermilab Front-to-back nm oscillation study Produce well-studied nm beam Measure nm spectrum just after production with “Near Detector” Measure again 735 km later with “Far Detector” Beam goes from Fermilab to the Soudan Mine Underground Lab The Far Detector Steel/Scintillator sampling calorimeter 5.4 kt, 8m diameter, 31m long 486 layers, each made of: 1” steel 1 cm plastic scintillator Magnetized to ~1.5 T Design goals ne/nm/p discrimination Good energy resolution For both m and showers Good timing, both hit-to-hit and absolute For particle direction and synching with Fermilab beam Far Detector Progress Construction began August 2001 Now up to about plane #225 Almost halfway done! First half complete in July when it will be magnetized Taking Cosmic Ray data as it is built Each plane independently instrumented Particle Detection 4.1 cm x 8m scint strips bundled into “modules” Light channeled out via 2-ended fiber Each plane’s strips are 90o from the last “U” and “V” views 17 GeV MC m shown below from side, in U,V Multiplexing Light detected by 16 pixel PMTs 8 fibers per pixel, ganged together with: Maximal physical strip separation Minimal in-PMT cross-talk Front End Electronics Fibers from each strip end are multiplexed onto PMT pixels Signals amplified, shaped, and tracked+held by “VA” chips Calibration charge can also be injected in the same place as PMT charge for functionality check and calibration of full electronics path Timing information sent upstream from this “Front End” rack Data Gathering VME “Master” crate VA Readout Controllers “VARC”s Charge from PMTs digitized by 14-bit ADCs Time stamped to 1.6ns by internal clock 2/6 or 2/36 pre-trigger applied Hits given absolute GPS time Data r