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The JUNO experiment Top Tracker

JUNO Collaboration·Angel Abusleme·Thomas Adam·Shakeel Ahmad·Rizwan Ahmed·Sebastiano Aiello·Muhammad Akram·Abid Aleem·Tsagkarakis Alexandros·Fengpeng An·Qi An·Giuseppe Andronico·Nikolay Anfimov·Vito Antonelli·Tatiana Antoshkina·Burin Asavapibhop·João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André·Didier Auguste·Weidong Bai·Nikita Balashov·Wander Baldini·Andrea Barresi·Davide Basilico·Eric Baussan·Marco Bellato·Marco Beretta·Antonio Bergnoli·Daniel Bick·Thilo Birkenfeld·Sylvie Blin·David Blum·Simon Blyth·Anastasia Bolshakova·Mathieu Bongrand·Clément Bordereau·Dominique Breton·Augusto Brigatti·Riccardo Brugnera·Riccardo Bruno·Antonio Budano·Jose Busto·Anatael Cabrera·Barbara Caccianiga·Hao Cai·Xiao Cai·Yanke Cai·Zhiyan Cai·Stéphane Callier·Antonio Cammi·Agustin Campeny·Chuanya Cao·Guofu Cao·Jun Cao·Rossella Caruso·Cédric Cerna·Vanessa Cerrone·Chi Chan·Jinfan Chang·Yun Chang·Chao Chen·Guoming Chen·Pingping Chen·Shaomin Chen·Yixue Chen·Yu Chen·Zhiyuan Chen·Zikang Chen·Jie Cheng·Yaping Cheng·Yu Chin Cheng·Alexander Chepurnov·Alexey Chetverikov·Davide Chiesa·Pietro Chimenti·Ziliang Chu·Artem Chukanov·Gérard Claverie·Catia Clementi·Barbara Clerbaux·Marta Colomer Molla·Selma Conforti Di Lorenzo·Alberto Coppi·Daniele Corti·Flavio Dal Corso·Olivia Dalager·Christophe De La Taille·Zhi Deng·Ziyan Deng·Wilfried Depnering·Marco Diaz·Xuefeng Ding·Yayun Ding·Bayu Dirgantara·Sergey Dmitrievsky·Tadeas Dohnal·Dmitry Dolzhikov·Georgy Donchenko·Jianmeng Dong·Evgeny Doroshkevich·Wei Dou
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Abstract

The main task of the Top Tracker detector of the neutrino reactor experiment Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is to reconstruct and extrapolate atmospheric muon tracks down to the central detector. This muon tracker will help to evaluate the contribution of the cosmogenic background to the signal. The Top Tracker is located above JUNO's water Cherenkov Detector and Central Detector, covering about 60% of the surface above them. The JUNO Top Tracker is constituted by the decommissioned OPERA experiment Target Tracker modules. The technology used consists in walls of two planes of plastic scintillator strips, one per transverse direction. Wavelength shifting fibres collect the light signal emitted by the scintillator strips and guide it to both ends where it is read by multianode photomultiplier tubes. Compared to the OPERA Target Tracker, the JUNO Top Tracker uses new electronics able to cope with the high rate produced by the high rock radioactivity compared to the one in Gran Sasso underground laboratory. This paper will present the new electronics and mechanical structure developed for the Top Tracker of JUNO along with its expected performance based on the current detector simulation.

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JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Shakeel Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmed, Sebastiano Aiello, Muhammad Akram, Abid Aleem, Tsagkarakis Alexandros, Fengpeng An, Qi An, Giuseppe Andronico, Nikolay Anfimov, Vito Antonelli, Tatiana Antoshkina, Burin Asavapibhop, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André, Didier Auguste, Weidong Bai, Nikita Balashov, Wander Baldini, Andrea Barresi, Davide Basilico, Eric Baussan, Marco Bellato, Marco Beretta, Antonio Bergnoli, Daniel Bick, Thilo Birkenfeld, Sylvie Blin, David Blum, Simon Blyth, Anastasia Bolshakova, Mathieu Bongrand, Clément Bordereau, Dominique Breton, Augusto Brigatti, Riccardo Brugnera, Riccardo Bruno, Antonio Budano, Jose Busto, Anatael Cabrera, Barbara Caccianiga, Hao Cai, Xiao Cai, Yanke Cai, Zhiyan Cai, Stéphane Callier, Antonio Cammi, Agustin Campeny, Chuanya Cao, Guofu Cao, Jun Cao, Rossella Caruso, Cédric Cerna, Vanessa Cerrone, Chi Chan, Jinfan Chang, Yun Chang, Chao Chen, Guoming Chen, Pingping Chen, Shaomin Chen, Yixue Chen, Yu Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Zikang Chen, Jie Cheng, Yaping Cheng, Yu Chin Cheng, Alexander Chepurnov, Alexey Chetverikov, Davide Chiesa, Pietro Chimenti, Ziliang Chu, Artem Chukanov, Gérard Claverie, Catia Clementi, Barbara Clerbaux, Marta Colomer Molla, Selma Conforti Di Lorenzo, Alberto Coppi, Daniele Corti, Flavio Dal Corso, Olivia Dalager, Christophe De La Taille, Zhi Deng, Ziyan Deng, Wilfried Depnering, Marco Diaz, Xuefeng Ding, Yayun Ding, Bayu Dirgantara, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Tadeas Dohnal, Dmitry Dolzhikov, Georgy Donchenko, Jianmeng Dong, Evgeny Doroshkevich, Wei Dou. 2023-03-09. The JUNO experiment Top Tracker. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168680

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