Design, construction and tests of the ICARUS T600 detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 527, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 329-410

  Amerio, S ^a   Amoruso, S ^b   Antonello, M ^c   Aprili, P ^d   Armenante, M ^b   Arneodo, F ^d   Badertscher, A ^e   Baiboussinov, B ^a   Baldo Ceolin, M ^a   Battistoni, G ^f   Bekman, B ^g   Benetti, P ^h   Bernardini, E ^d   Bischofberger, M ^e   Borio di Tigliole, A ^h   Brunetti, R ^h   Bruzzese, R ^b   Bueno, A ^e,i   Calligarich, E ^h   Campanelli, M ^e   Carbonara, F ^b   Carpanese, C ^e   Cavalli, D ^f   Cavanna, F ^c   Cennini, P ^j   Centro, S ^a   Cesana, A ^f,k   Chen, C ^l   Chen, D ^l   Chen, D B ^a   Chen, Y ^l   Cid, R ⁱ   Cline, D B ^m   Cieslik K ⁿ   Cocco, A G ^b   Corti, D ^a   Dai, Z ^e   de Vecchi, C ^h   Dabrowska, A ⁿ   di Cicco, A ^b   Dolfini, R ^h   Ereditato, A ^b   Felcini, M ^e   Ferella, A ^c   Ferrari, A ^f,j   Ferri, F ^c   Fiorillo, G ^b   Galli, S ^c   Garcia Gamez, D ⁱ   Ge, Y ^e   Gibin, D ^a   Gigli Berzolari, A ^h   Gil Botella, I ^e   Graczyk, K ^o   Grandi, L ^h   Guglielmi, A ^a   He, K ^l   Holeczek, J ^g   Huang, X ^l   Juszczak, C ^o   Kielczewska, D ^p,q   Kisiel, J ^g   Kozlowski, T ^p   Kuna Ciskal, H ^r   Laffranchi, M ^e   Lagoda, J ^q   Li, Z ^l   Lisowski, B ^m   Lu, F ^l   Ma, J ^l   Mangano, G ^b   Mannocchi, G ^s,t   Markiewicz, M ⁿ   Martinez de la Ossa, A ⁱ   Matthey, C ^m   Mauri, F ^h   Mazza, D ^c   Melgarejo, A J ⁱ   Menegolli, A ^h   Meng, G ^a   Messina, M ^e   Mietelski, J W ⁿ   Montanari, C ^h   Muraro, S ^f   Navas Concha, S ^e,i   Nicoletto, M ^a   Nowak, J ^o   Nurzia, G ^c   Osuna, C ⁱ   Otwinowski, S ^m   Ouyang, Q ^l   Palamara, O ^d   Pascoli, D ^a   Periale, L ^s,t   Piano Mortari, G ^c   Piazzoli, A ^h   Picchi, P ^s,t,u   Pietropaolo, F ^a   Polchlopek W ^v   Prata, M ^h   Rancati, T ^f   Rappoldi, A ^h   Raselli, G L ^h   Rico, J ^e   Rondio, E ^p   Rossella, M ^h   Rubbia, A ^e   Rubbia, C ^h   Sala, P ^e,f   Santorelli, R ^b   Scannicchio, D ^h   Segreto, E ^c   Seo, Y ^m   Sergiampietri, F ^m,w   Sobczyk, J ^o   Spinelli, N ^b   Stepaniak, J ^p   Sulej, R ^x   Szeptycka, M ^p   Szarska, M ⁿ   Terrani, M ^f,k   Trinchero, G ^s,t   Velotta, R ^b   Ventura, S ^a   Vignoli, C ^h   Wang, H ^m   Wang, X ^b   Woo, J ^m   Xu, G ^l   Xu, Z ^l   Yang, X ^m   Zalewska, A ⁿ   Zalipska, J ^p   Zhang, C ^l   Zhang, Q ^l   Zhen, S ^l   Zipper, W ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^d LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^j CERN   (Switzerland)

^k POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^l INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^p SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^q UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^r CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^s IFSI   (Italy)

^t INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^u UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^v AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^w INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^x WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

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Author keywords

Calorimetry; Liquid Argon; Neutrino interaction; Nucleon decay; TPC

Indexed keywords

LIQUID ARGON; NEUTRINO INTERACTIONS; NUCLEON DECAY; TPC;

ARGON; CALORIMETRY; COSMIC RAYS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRODES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IONIZATION;

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 9544229179     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2004.02.044     Document Type: Article

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