Published January 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

ICARUS. A status report

Description

The latest evolutions of the ICARUS project are reviewed. During the present year the collaboration has been heavily involved into the construction of the first full scale prototypes of the 600 ton ICARUS detector. Cryogenic and purification tests as well as mechanical tests on a wire-chamber module, are presently under completion. No major problems were found and we foresee to be ready for the commissioning of the major detector components by the end of the present year. Also, the Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation program has been subject to a rapid acceleration. Following our formal proposal, submitted and approved at the beginning of this year by the CERN SPSLC, a working group has been formed to study the details of the beam and a sensitive program has been formulated by which first neutrinos can be sent to the Gran Sasso at the end of year 2001

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S0920563298004691;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 453-457
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
5. international workshop on topics in astroparticle and underground physics
Acronym
TAUP 97
Dates
7-11 Sep 1997
Place
L'Aquilla (Italy)

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Copyright (c) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.