The design and construction of the Chips water Cherenkov neutrino detector
Chips (CHerenkov detectors In mine PitS) was a prototype large-scale water Cherenkov detector located in northern Minnesota. The main aim of the R&D project was to demonstrate that construction costs of neutrino oscillation detectors could be reduced by at least an order of magnitude compared to other equivalent experiments. This article presents design features of the Chips detector along with details of the implementation and deployment of the prototype. While issues during and after the deployment of the detector prevented data taking, a number of key concepts and designs were successfully demonstrated.
Authors
- Alec Habig (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1018-9383)
- R. Wade
- P. Vahle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9845-6078)
- M. M. Pfützner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7221-3164)
- Nils Bertschinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6699-9596)
- J. Trokan-Tenorio
- L. Rogers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6505-1157)
- E. Catano-Mur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6209-7221)
- J. Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1800-6761)
- R. J. Nichol (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0557-0443)
- Thomas Dodwell
- A. Sousa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1862-1409)
- William H. Miller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1561-9696)
- I. Safa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8737-6825)
- H. Hausner
- Simeon Bash (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2680-1271)
- T. Holvey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2473-938X)
- David Alexander Loving
- S. Jones (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8436-8026)
- A. Perch
- S. Wolcott
- J.P. Lazar
- J. K. Nelson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-4905)
- A. Karle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9889-5161)
- Thomas J. Carroll (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-4701)
- R. Li
- J. A. B. Coelho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5615-3899)
- L. Whitehead (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3327-2534)
- Willinton Y. Hernández (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7375-5530)
- S. Cao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9046-5324)
- J. P. Cesar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6644-0023)
- A. Kreymer
- B. Alonso Rancurel
- R. Castellan
- P. Dills
- Q. Fetterly
- Z. Garbal
- T. Gilpin
- A. Giraudo
- D. Hanuska
- G. Augustoni
- G. Kileff
- Gabe M. LaFond
- P. Roedl
- Kun Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5807-0501)
- B. Bergmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8076-5614)
- Daniel J. Wendt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6364-8187)
- P. Kooijman
- A. Radovic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8016-1560)
- Petr Mánek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4306-0209)
- D. van Eijk
- T. Yuan
- K. Lang
- M. Marshak
- M. Campbell
- S. Germani
- Joel M. Tingey
- K. Rawlins
- Jeffrey M. Edmondson
- N. Angelides
- Kenneth R. Jenkins
- J. R. Meier
- V. Paolone
- Chris Wendt
- C. R. Ng
- P. Bizouard
- J. Thomas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4291-0294)
Institutions
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- William & Mary (US)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
- Williams (United States) (US)
- Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie (FR)
- National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NL)
- Quy Nhon University (VN)
- Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ)
- University College London (GB)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Published
- 2024-09-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.169894
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.66
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Minnesota
- Aix-Marseille Université
- University of Minnesota Duluth
- University of Alberta
- Leverhulme Trust
- Royal Society
- University College London
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- European Research Council
- Fermilab