Underground operation of the ICARUS T600 LAr-TPC: first results

By C. Rubbia, M. Antonello, P. Aprili, B. Baibussinov, M. B. Ceolin, L. Barzè, P. Benetti, E. Calligarich, N. Canci, F. Carbonara and 67 more. 2011

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Important open questions are still present in fundamental Physics and Cosmology, like the nature of Dark Matter, the matter-antimatter asymmetry and the validity of the Standard Model of particle interactions. Addressing these questions requires a new generation of massive particle detectors to explore the subatomic and astrophysical worlds. ICARUS T600 is the first large mass (760 tons) example of a new generation of detectors able to combine the imaging capabilities of the old famous ``bubble chamber'' with the excellent energy measurement of huge electronic detectors. ICARUS T600 now operates at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory and is used to study cosmic rays, neutrino oscillations and the proton decay. The potential for doing physics of this novel telescope is presented through a few examples of neutrino interactions reconstructed with unprecedented detail. Detector design and early operation are also reported.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 1: The LBNF and DUNE Projects (2015, methodology): “Significant experience with simulation, reconstruction, and calibration of neutrino interactions in LArTPCs is expected from the Intermediate Neutrino Program, particularly Fermilab’s SBN program [35], which will include three LArTPCs: SBND [36], μBooNE [37], and ICARUS-T600 [38].”
• The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Exploring Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe (2013, methodology): “Detector performance assumptions are taken both from the LBNE CDR [29] and from published results from the ICARUS experiment [139,169,170,171].”
• A Proposal for a Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (2015, methodology): “An important contribution to the sterile neutrino search has already been made using the ICARUS-T600 detector running in the underground INFN-LNGS Gran Sasso Laboratory and exposed to the CERN to Gran Sasso (CNGS) neutrino beam [12].”
• Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF (2015, methodology): “Significant experience with simulation, reconstruction, and calibration of neutrino interactions in LArTPCs is expected from the Intermediate Neutrino Program, particularly Fermilab’s SBN program [35], which will include three LArTPCs: SBND [36], μBooNE [37], and ICARUS-T600 [38].”