Cosmic Ray Backgrounds in an LBNE far detector on the Surface
Lisa Goodenough, Maury Goodman, Jon Paley, John Learned, Gavin Davies,, Mayly Sanchez
TL;DR
This paper discusses the significant challenge posed by cosmic ray backgrounds in a surface liquid Argon detector for LBNE, highlighting the unresolved issues that threaten the detector's feasibility.
Contribution
It provides an analysis of cosmic ray backgrounds in a surface LBNE detector and emphasizes the difficulties in mitigating these backgrounds.
Findings
Cosmic ray backgrounds are formidable and unresolved.
No current evidence suggests these backgrounds can be effectively overcome.
The background issue poses a major challenge for surface LBNE detectors.
Abstract
A surface liquid Argon Far Detector for LBNE has formidable background issues from cosmic rays. There is no evidence they can be overcome.
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Taxonomy
TopicsDark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena · Superconducting and THz Device Technology · Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics