Future liquid Argon detectors
Abstract
The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber offers an innovative technology for a new class of massive detectors for rare-event detection. It is a precise tracking device that allows three-dimensional spatial reconstruction with mm-scale precision of the morphology of ionizing tracks with the imaging quality of a "bubble chamber", provides information with high sampling rate, and acts as high-resolution calorimeter for contained events. First proposed in 1977 and after a long maturing process, its holds today the potentialities of opening new physics opportunities by providing excellent tracking and calorimetry performance at the relevant multi-kton mass scales, outperforming other techniques. In this paper, we review future liquid argon detectors presently being discussed by the neutrino physics community.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1304.0127,
title = {Future liquid Argon detectors},
author = {A. Rubbia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0127},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages, XXV International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2012), Kyoto, Japan, to appear in Nuclear Physics B: Proceedings Supplements