Expected Performance of Cosmic Muon Veto Detector
Abstract: The India-Based Neutrino Observatory (INO) collaboration houses the miniICAL detector, at the transit campus of IICHEP, Madurai, India, which serves as a prototype-detector of the larger Iron-Calorimeter detector (ICAL). The purpose of miniICAL lies in unraveling the intricate engineering challenges inherent in constructing a substantial ICAL-type detector. To explore the feasibility of building a large-scale neutrino experiment at shallow depths the collaboration has embarked upon the construction of a Cosmic Muon Veto Detector (CMVD) around the miniICAL detector. The primary objective of this endeavor revolves around attaining a veto efficiency surpassing $99.99\%$, while simultaneously maintaining a false-positive rate lower than $10{-5}$. The CMVD system is based on extruded plastic scintillators (EPS) and utilizes wavelength-shifting fibers to collect scintillation photons and uses silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) as photo-transducers. The expected performance of the CMVD is estimated using simulated muon tracks in the miniICAL stack taking into account efficiency, multiplicity of RPC detectors from the miniICAL data as well as the noise of SiPM, observed SiPM spectra and time resolution due to cosmic muon along the whole length of EPS etc. The CMVD experiment is a crucial step in the larger context of neutrino research, by increasing the veto efficiency of cosmic muons, the CMVD experiment helps to pave the way for future large-scale shallow-depth neutrino experiments, providing valuable insights into the study of neutrinos and their properties.
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