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Setup of a Drift Tube Muon Tracker and Calibration of Muon ...

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3.5.5 Pattern Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373.5.6 Track Fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383.5.7 3D info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403.6 Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413.6.1 Module Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413.6.2 Wire Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423.7 <strong>Calibration</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433.8 Commissioning: <strong>Muon</strong>s in Hamburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443.8.1 Monte Carlo Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453.8.2 Cosmic Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473.8.3 Fit Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483.8.4 Spatial <strong>and</strong> Angular Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494 The Borexino Experiment 514.1 Neutrino Detection in Borexino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514.1.1 Elastic Scattering in Liquid Scintillator . . . . . . . . . . . . 514.1.2 Inverse β Decay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534.1.3 Čerenkov Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544.1.4 Background in Liquid Scintillator Detectors . . . . . . . . . . 544.2 The Borexino Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564.2.1 Detector <strong>Setup</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564.2.2 Scintillator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564.2.3 Radio Purity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.3 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.3.1 Radioactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584.3.2 Neutrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584.3.3 Cosmogenic Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584.3.4 <strong>Muon</strong> Identification <strong>and</strong> Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604.4 Borexino Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614.4.1 7 Be Neutrinos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614.4.2 8 B Neutrinos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644.4.3 Anti Electron Neutrinos – Geo-Neutrinos . . . . . . . . . . . 654.5 pep <strong>and</strong> CNO Neutrinos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665 CMT for Borexino 695.1 CMT at the Borexino Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705.1.1 Angular Acceptance <strong>of</strong> the Modified <strong>Setup</strong> . . . . . . . . . . 745.1.2 Reconstruction with Three Hits Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745.1.3 Monte Carlo Simulation <strong>of</strong> <strong>Muon</strong> Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . 755.2 Commissioning <strong>and</strong> Early Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775.2.1 A First Look at Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775.2.2 Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805.2.3 Trigger Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835.3 Common Events with Borexino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855.3.1 Borexino Data Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855.4 Comparison <strong>of</strong> CMT <strong>and</strong> Borexino <strong>Muon</strong> Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . 865.5 CNGS Rock <strong>Muon</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915.5.1 Direct Angular Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93vi

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