A new, very massive modular Liquid Argon Imaging Chamber to detect low energy off-axis neutrinos from the CNGS beam (Project MODULAr)

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 174-187

  Baibussinov, B ^a   Baldo Ceolin, M ^a   Battistoni, G ^b   Benetti, P ^c   Borio, A ^c   Calligarich, E ^c   Cambiaghi, M ^c   Cavanna, F ^d   Centro, S ^a   Cocco, A G ^e   Dolfini, R ^c   Gigli Berzolari, A ^c   Farnese, C ^a   Fava, A ^a   Ferrari, A ^b   Fiorillo, G ^e   Gibin, D ^a   Guglielmi, A ^a   Mannocchi, G ^f   Mauri, F ^c   Menegolli, A ^c   Meng, G ^a   Montanari, C ^c   Palamara, O ^d   Periale, L ^f   Picchi, P ^f   Pietropaolo, F ^a   Rappoldi, A ^c   Raselli, G L ^c   Rossella, M ^c   Rubbia, C ^d   Sala, P ^b   Satta, G ^f   Varanini, F ^a   Ventura, S ^a   Vignoli, C ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^f INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liquid argon TPC; Long baseline experiments; Neutrino mixing parameters; Neutrino oscillations; Underground particle physics

Indexed keywords

ARGON; CALORIMETRY; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PROTONS;

LONG BASELINE EXPERIMENTS; NEUTRINO MIXING PARAMETERS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 40849123984     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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