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Characterization of the optical model of the T2K 3D segmented plastic scintillator detector

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arxiv 2410.24099 v1 pith:KJPXMMNL submitted 2024-10-31 hep-ex physics.ins-det

Characterization of the optical model of the T2K 3D segmented plastic scintillator detector

S. Abe , I. Alekseev , T. Arai , T. Arihara , S. Arimoto , N. Babu , V. Baranov , L. Bartoszek
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The magnetised near detector (ND280) of the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment has been recently upgraded aiming to satisfy the requirement of reducing the systematic uncertainty from measuring the neutrinonucleus interaction cross section, which is the largest systematic uncertainty in the search for leptonic charge-parity symmetry violation. A key component of the upgrade is SuperFGD, a 3D segmented plastic scintillator detector made of approximately 2,000,000 optically-isolated 1 cm3 cubes. It will provide a 3D image of GeV neutrino interactions by combining tracking and stopping power measurements of final state particles with sub-nanosecond time resolution. The performance of SuperFGD is characterized by the precision of its response to charged particles as well as the systematic effects that might affect the physics measurements. Hence, a detailed Geant4 based optical simulation of the SuperFGD building block, i.e. a plastic scintillating cube read out by three wavelength shifting fibers, has been developed and validated with the different datasets collected in various beam tests. In this manuscript the description of the optical model as well as the comparison with data are reported.

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