The LVD experiment

The large volume detector (LVD) can be defined as an underground observatory devoted to neutrino astronomy and to the measurement of the penetrating components of cosmic rays. The experiment has been optimized for major physics items such as the detection of the neutrino bursts of collapsing stars and the search for astrophysical point sources of ultra-high energy gammas and neutrinos. It can also be defined as a multipurpose experiment where many important issues, especially neutrino oscillations, standard cosmic ray physics, proton decay in the channel (p → K+ + anti-neutrino), solar neutrinos and monopoles can be studied with varying degrees of sensitivity and on a competitive basis. The experiment will be located in Hall A of the Gran Sasso Laboratory. (author). 12 refs.; 7 figs