Work at UCL
The UCL group has involvement in most
aspects of MINOS. In addition to the tasks listed here, MINOS students
have spent several months at Soudan, working on general detector
installation tasks.
Current Work
The Calibration Detector is a small (12 tonnes) detector of MINOS
geometry that is exposed to electrons, muons, pions and protons
of known energy in CERN
testbeams in order to understand the response of the MINOS detectors,
and to compare the different electronics used in the Near and Far
detectors. The UCL group continues to lead this effort, which began in
2001. CalDet will be dismantled early in 2004. Lean more about work on
CalDet. The CalDet remains the major
focus of MINOS work at UCL.
Analysis Working Groups
As MINOS moves from a construction to an exploitation phase, so the
focus of work at UCL shifts from construction to analysis. Two UCL
group members are convenors of analysis working groups (Jenny Thomas:
νμ appearance, Phil Adamson:
νμ → νe.
Past Work
Development of Light Injection Calibration system
The MINOS LI calibration system was designed at Sussex based on
extensive R&D work at UCL and Sussex.
Evaluation of Hamamatsu M16 phototubes
Data Acquisition Software
