NuMI Neutrino Beam
Monitoring
The NuMI beamline produces an intense beam of muon neutrinos that result
from the weak decays of mesons (pions and kaons) in an evacuated tunnel.
The mesons are produced in a target upstream of to focusing 'horns' that
sign- and momenum- select the particles and focuses them into the decay
tunnel.
The monitoring system presently consists of ionization chambers which will
be placed at the end of the decay pipe and in three 'alcoves' dug into the
dolomite rock. The 'alcoves' will measure fluxes of muons that are
produced along with the neutrinos, while the chambers at the end of the
pipe will measure muons, undecayed mesons, and protons that did not react
in the target.
Click on the diagram for an enlarged view
Talks at
Conferences/Workshops
Paper submitted to 13th
Beam Instrumentation Workshop (BIW04), Knoxville, TN, May 2004.
Paper submitted to
European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC04), Luzerne,
Switzerland, July 2004.
Talk by S. Kopp at the
3rd International Workshop on Neutrino Beams held at CERN,
March 14-19, 2002.
Several talks were presented at the
2nd International Workshop on Neutrino Beams held at Fermilab,
Sept. 6-9, 2000.
Papers on the monitoring system listed on Spires
Monitoring Documentation
Technical Description of the hadron monitor (rad calcs, heating, etc):
ps,pdf
Technical Description of the muon monitors (tube assembly, mass, calibration...)
ps,pdf
Document describing the calibration
of the hadron and muon monitor chambers.
Document specifying the technical
parameters for
the muon system.
Document specifying the
technical parameters for the hadron monitors system.
Beam test
at the Fermilab Booster.
ps ,
pdf
Beam Test
at the Brookhaven ATF.
Bench studies
of potential cross-talk sources in arrays of ion chambers.
Neutron-induced backgrounds in the ion
chambers.
Draft chapter for NuMI Technical Design Handbook
pdf
doc
Very,very out of date Technical Design Report
Drawings for the Hadron
Monitor
Drawings for the
Muon Monitor.
Reviews, Meetings
Dharma and Zarko's status report
on detector construction and calibration at the June 04 MINOS Ely Meeting.
Debbie's slides on monitor commissioning from an internal NuMI
Workshop: pdf,
ps.
Slides for the May '03 DoE Lehman Review:
pdf,
PowerPoint.
Slides for the Dec. '02 DoE Lehman Review:
pdf,
PowerPoint.
July 24 Final Internal NuMI Engineering
Review of Beam Monitoring System.
December 10 Internal NuMI Review of Beam
Monitoring System R&D.
Slides for the Sept. '01 DoE Lehman Review:
pdf,
PowerPoint.
Slides on cost estimates for the Aug. '01 FNAL Director's Review of
NuMI: pdf,
PowerPoint.
Talk presented by Alberto Marchionni at the May Lehman Review
of NuMI: powerpoint file.
Talk presented by Alberto Marchionni at the April FNAL Director's
Review of NuMI: ps file.
Review of the Hadron Monitor System (Upstream and Downstream).
Links for the
presentations by the NWU group and also the committee
report.
Cost estimates based on SIC's and PIC's for the Aug. 2001 Lehmann
review of NuMI: click here.
The monitoring system is a collaboration of the following
institutions.
