MiniCLEAN

The instructions on this page assume that you already have a local computing account; if not, see First Steps for New Users.

How to get started with MiniCLEAN

Papers and other Documents to get started with MiniCLEAN

• A very nice summary of the status of the detector and upcoming commissioning at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada:

 https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=12471

Some detailed links

• a nice article on recently developed analysis techniques

 Update on the MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment.
 MINICLEAN Collaboration (K. Rielage (Los Alamos) et al.).  Mar 19, 2014.  9pp. 
 Published in Phys.Procedia 61 (2015) 144-152.
 e-Print: arXiv:1403.4842 [physics.ins-det]  https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.4842.pdf   

• a Bayesian technique applied to the general problem of particle identification in single-phase liquid argon dark matter detectors here is a very nice article

  Improving Photoelectron Counting and Particle Identification in Scintillation Detectors with Bayesian Techniques.
  M. Akashi-Ronquest (Los Alamos) et al..  Aug 8, 2014.  15 pp.
  Published in Astropart.Phys. 65 (2015) 40-54.
  e-Print: arXiv:1408.1914 [physics.ins-det] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1914.pdf

Getting a Vault Account

You must get a miniclean vault account, this can be obtained by emailing Kim Palladino. when you update it, another account is created for you to access the RAT svn and documentation.

The vault is the MiniCLEAN document/online database source. It is located here

Set up RAT account

The RAT User Guide is here