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Monte Carlo Simulation of Stopped Muon Monitors for DUNE/LBNF Public Deposited

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  • The composition of neutrino flavor eigenstates in terms of neutrino mass states leads to the phenomenon of “neutrino oscillation”, whereby a neutrino created in one flavor may change to another in flight. DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) is an experiment designed with a 1300 km baseline to study and measure the parameters involved in neutrino oscillation. To measure the tertiary muon beam created with the neutrinos, a detector designed to measure stopping muons is used. The detector will pick up light created in the decay of a muon in mineral oil in the center. To study the response of the muon monitor in the proposed experiment set-up Monte Carlo simulations using the Geant4 software package is used. Combining a detector specific Monte Carlo simulation with the overall experiment beam Monte Carlo has led to a model for predicting stopping muon flux from an overall muon beam flux. This has been used to create a picture of detector response in arbitrary configurations and develop a timing scheme to prevent saturation of the detector. Progress has also been made using this model to understand detector response using different production models.
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  • 2016-01-01
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