The trigger system of the ICARUS experiment for the CNGS beam

M Antonello; B Baibussinov; P Benetti; F Boffelli; A Bubak; E Calligarich; S Centro; A Cesana; K Cieslik; D B Cline; A G Cocco; A Dabrowska; D Dequal; A Dermenev; R Dolfini; A Falcone; C Farnese; A Fava; A Ferrari; G Fiorillo; D Gibin; S Gninenko; A Guglielmi; M Haranczyk; J Holeczek; M Kirsanov; J Kisiel; I Kochanek; J Lagoda; S Mania; A Menegolli; G Meng; C Montanari; M Nicoletto; S Otwinowski; P Picchi; F Pietropaolo; P Plonski; A Rappoldi; G L Raselli; M Rossella; C Rubbia; P Sala; A Scaramelli; E Segreto; F Sergiampietri; D Stefan; R Sulej; M Szarska; M Terrani; M Torti; F Varanini; S Ventura; C Vignoli; H Wang; X Yang; A Zalewska; A Zani; K Zaremba

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/9/08/P08003

Journal of Instrumentation

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The trigger system of the ICARUS experiment for the CNGS beam

M Antonello¹, B Baibussinov², P Benetti³, F Boffelli³, A Bubak¹¹, E Calligarich³, S Centro², A Cesana⁴, K Cieslik⁵, D B Cline⁶, A G Cocco⁷, A Dabrowska⁵, D Dequal², A Dermenev⁸, R Dolfini³, A Falcone³, C Farnese², A Fava², A Ferrari⁹, G Fiorillo⁷, D Gibin², S Gninenko⁸, A Guglielmi², M Haranczyk⁵, J Holeczek¹¹, M Kirsanov⁸, J Kisiel¹¹, I Kochanek¹¹, J Lagoda¹⁰, S Mania¹¹, A Menegolli³, G Meng², C Montanari³, M Nicoletto², S Otwinowski⁶, P Picchi¹², F Pietropaolo², P Plonski¹⁴, A Rappoldi³, G L Raselli³, M Rossella³, C Rubbia^1,9,13, P Sala⁴, A Scaramelli⁴, E Segreto¹, F Sergiampietri¹⁵, D Stefan⁴, R Sulej⁹, M Szarska⁵, M Terrani⁴, M Torti³, F Varanini², S Ventura², C Vignoli¹, H Wang⁶, X Yang⁶, A Zalewska⁵, A Zani³ and K Zaremba¹⁴

Published 7 August 2014 • © CERN 2014
Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 9, August 2014 Citation M Antonello et al 2014 JINST 9 P08003 DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/9/08/P08003

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¹ INFN — Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, Italy

² Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia Università di Padova and INFN, Padova, Italy

³ Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Pavia and INFN, Pavia, Italy

⁴ Politecnico di Milano and INFN, Milano, Italy

⁵ H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Krakow, Poland

⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

⁷ Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche Università Federico II di Napoli and INFN, Napoli, Italy

⁸ INR RAS, Moscow, Russia

⁹ CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

¹⁰ National Centre for Nuclear Research, Otwock/Swierk, Poland

¹¹ Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

¹² INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy

¹³ GSSI, L'Aquila, Italy

¹⁴ Institute of Radioelectronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

¹⁵ INFN, Pisa, Italy

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Received 29 May 2014
Accepted 30 June 2014
Published 7 August 2014

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Abstract

The ICARUS T600 detector, with its 470 tons of active mass, is the largest liquid Argon TPC ever built. Operated for three years in the LNGS underground laboratory, it has collected thousands of CNGS neutrino beam interactions and cosmic ray events with energy spanning from tens of MeV to tens of GeV, with a trigger system based on scintillation light, charge signal on TPC wires and time information (for beam related events only). The performance of trigger system in terms of efficiency, background and live-time as a function of the event energy for the CNGS data taking is presented.

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