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    Detector Seminar

    Giant Liquid Argon TPCs for Neutrino Physics and Proton Decay - Status and Challenges

    by Andre Rubbia (CERN)

    → Europe/Zurich
    40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr (CERN)

    40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr

    CERN

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    Abstract:

    The feasibility of very massive underground liquid Argon detectors is considered for a next generation nucleon decay, long baseline neutrino physics and neutrino astrophysics experiment.

    Effective extrapolation to the required mass scale requires concrete R&D, for example, on the use of alternative readout, very long drift paths, warm and cold readout electronics, liquid argon purity in non-evacuated very large volumes, etc.

    In this context, small setups have and are being operated, and a 250L chamber, a 1-ton chamber (ArDM-1t) and a 6m3 device are under assembly at KEK and CERN. We shall review these efforts and describe challenges ahead, and lay out a possible roadmap towards the realization of the final detector.

     

    Detector Seminar webpage

    Organizer: Ferdinand Hahn  PH-DT

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