Abstract:
Answering the question about the ordering of the neutrino masses is one of the
large unanswered questions of neutrino physics. A candidate to answer this
question is the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), which
is a large 20 kt liquid scintillator based neutrino oscillation experiment located
in southern China that will begin data collection in 2025. To achieve this goal,
JUNO requires an unprecedented energy resolution of 3%/
p
Evis[MeV]. In such
a measurement, reducing radioactive backgrounds that might mimic neutrino
signals plays a crucial role. Therefore, keeping the concentration of uranium
and thorium at a level of 10−15 g/g is crucial to the success of the experiment.
To monitor this purity of the liquid scintillator during the filling phase of JUNO,
the Online Scintillator Internal Radioactivity Investigation System (OSIRIS)
was introduced. OSIRIS is an 18 t liquid scintillator pre-detector of JUNO,
featuring a 3m x 3m acrylic vessel housed in a 9m x 9m water-filled steel tank.
Equipped with 76 20-inch photomultiplier tubes (twelve in the water Cherenkov
muon veto and 64 in the inner detector), this system will be used to continuously
monitor the produced liquid scintillator’s purity.
In the scope of this work, a laser calibration system responsible for the timing
and charge calibration of the photomultiplier tubes of OSIRIS was developed,
built, characterized, and installed. In addition, parts of the slow control system
of OSIRIS have been produced.
This thesis will present the schematic of the laser calibration system, its control
software, as well as the results of the characterization measurements done with
the system. Furthermore, analysis of first data taken by OSIRIS with the laser
calibration system will be presented. In the last chapter, a description of the
parts of the slow control of OSIRIS created in the scope of this work is given.