Published January 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

ICARUS T600: Latest physics results

Creators

  • 1. INFN, Pavia(Italy)

Description

The ICARUS T600 detector is the largest Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) ever built and operated to date. The detector, assembled underground in the Hall B of the Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS), has been collecting neutrino events with the CERN to Gran Sasso (CNGS) beam and from cosmic rays from May 2010 to June 2013. The ICARUS excellent spatial and calorimetric resolution, coupled to very refined 3D event reconstruction techniques, allows to search, among others, for νμ→νe transitions which may be related to the 'LSND anomaly'. Though no evidence of this is detected, an important region of the parameter space remains unexplored. For this reason the joint ICARUS-NESSiE collaboration is proposing an experiment, at the new foreseen CERN-SPS neutrino beam facility (CENF), to solve the sterile neutrino puzzle.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuovo Cimento. C (Print)
Journal Volume
37C
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 129-133
ISSN
2037-4909