ICARUS T600: Latest physics results
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.
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuovo Cimento. C (Print)
- Journal Volume
- 37C
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 129-133
- ISSN
- 2037-4909
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- Italy
- INIS RN
- 46047582
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; COSMIC RAY DETECTION; MASS; MISSING MASS; MUON DETECTION; NEUTRINO DETECTION; NEUTRINOS; PION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTION; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS
- Descriptors DEC
- CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; DETECTION; DRIFT CHAMBERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS; PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS