1. Design of the MiniCLEAN dark matter search veto detector subsystem.
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Abruzzio, Robert, Buck, Benjamin, Jaditz, Stephen, Kelsey, James, Monroe, Jocelyn, and Palladino, Kimberly
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DARK matter , *PHOTOMULTIPLIERS , *DATA acquisition systems , *PHOTON detectors - Abstract
This paper describes the design of the active muon veto subsystem for the MiniCLEAN dark matter direct detection experiment at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The water-filled veto is instrumented with 48 PMTs which are read out by front-end electronics to time multiplex 48 photomultiplier channels into 6 digitizer channels and provide an instantaneous hit sum across the subsystem (N-Hit) for the veto trigger. We describe the primary system components: the PMTs, the support structure, the front-end electronics, and the data acquisition system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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