Related papers: Ideas for future liquid Argon detectors

A 4 tonne demonstrator for large-scale dual-phase liquid argon time projection chambers

A 10 kilo-tonne dual-phase liquid argon TPC is one of the detector options considered for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). The detector technology relies on amplification of the ionisation charge in ultra-pure argon vapour…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-14 B. Aimard , Ch. Alt , J. Asaadi , M. Auger , V. Aushev , D. Autiero , M. M. Badoi , A. Balaceanu , G. Balik , L. Balleyguier , E. Bechetoille , D. Belver , A. M. Blebea-Apostu , S. Bolognesi , S. Bordoni , N. Bourgeois , B. Bourguille , J. Bremer , G. Brown , G. Brunetti , L. Brunetti , D. Caiulo , M. Calin , E. Calvo , M. Campanelli , K. Cankocak , C. Cantini , B. Carlus , B. M. Cautisanu , M. Chalifour , A. Chappuis , N. Charitonidis , A. Chatterjee , A. Chiriacescu , P. Chiu , S. Conforti , P. Cotte , P. Crivelli , C. Cuesta , J. Dawson , I. De Bonis , C. De La Taille , A. Delbart , D. Desforge , S. Di Luise , B. S. Dimitru , F. Doizon , C. Drancourt , D. Duchesneau , F. Dulucq , J. Dumarchez , F. Duval , S. Emery , A. Ereditato , T. Esanu , A. Falcone , K. Fusshoeller , A. Gallego-Ros , V. Galymov , N. Geroy , A. Gendotti , M. Gherghel-Lascu , C. Giganti , I. Gil-Botella , C. Girerd , M. C. Gomoiu , P. Gorodetzky , E. Hamada , R. Hanni , T. Hasegawa , A. Holin , S. Horikawa , M. Ikeno , S. Jimenez , A. Jipa , M. Karolak , Y. Karyotakis , S. Kasai , K. Kasami , T. Kishishita , I. Kreslo , D. Kryn , C. Lastoria , I. Lazanu , G. Lehmann-Miotto , N. Lira , K. Loo , D. Lorca , P. Lutz , T. Lux , J. Maalampi , G. Maire , M. Maki , L. Manenti , R. M. Margineanu , J. Marteau , G. Martin-Chassard , H. Mathez , E. Mazzucato , G. Misitano , B. Mitrica , D. Mladenov , L. Molina Bueno , C. Moreno Martinez , J. P. Mols , T. S. Mosu , W. Mug , A. Munteanu , S. Murphy , K. Nakayoshi , S. Narita , D. Navas-Nicolas , K. Negishi , M. Nessi , M. Niculescu-Oglinzanu , L. Nita , F. Noto , A. Noury , Y. Onishchuk , C. Palomares , M. Parvu , T. Patzak , Y. Penichot , E. Pennacchio , L. Periale , H. Pessard , F. Pietropaolo , Y. Piret , B. Popov , D. Pugnere , B. Radics , D. Redondo , C. Regenfus , A. Remoto , F. Resnati , Y. A. Rigaut , C. Ristea , A. Rubbia , A. Saftoiu , K. Sakashita , F. Sanchez , C. Santos , A. Scarpelli , C. Schloesser , L. Scotto Lavina , K. Sendai , F. Sergiampietri , S. Shahsavarani , M. Shoji , J. Sinclair , J. Soto-Oton , D. L. Stanca , D. Stefan , P. Stroescu , R. Sulej , M. Tanaka , V. Toboaru , A. Tonazzo , W. Tromeur , W. H. Trzaska , T. Uchida , F. Vannucci , G. Vasseur , A. Verdugo , T. Viant , S. Vihonen , S. Vilalte , M. Weber , S. Wu , J. Yu , L. Zambelli , M. Zito

A Possible Future Long Baseline Neutrino and Nucleon Decay Experiment with a 100 kton Liquid Argon TPC at Okinoshima using the J-PARC Neutrino Facility

In this paper, we consider the physics performance of a single far detector composed of a 100 kton next generation Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) possibly located at shallow depth, coupled to the J-PARC neutrino beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-04-15 A. Badertscher , T. Hasegawa , T. Kobayashi , A. Marchionni , A. Meregaglia , T. Maruyama , K. Nishikawa , A. Rubbia

Nucleon Decay Searches with large Liquid Argon TPC Detectors at Shallow Depths: atmospheric neutrinos and cosmogenic backgrounds

Grand Unification of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions into a single unified gauge group is an extremely appealing idea which has been vigorously pursued theoretically and experimentally for many years. The detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 A. Bueno , Z. Dai , Y. Ge , M. Laffranchi , A. J. Melgarejo , A. Meregaglia , S. Navas , A. Rubbia

ArDM: a ton-scale LAr detector for direct Dark Matter searches

The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM-1t) experiment is a ton-scale liquid argon (LAr) double-phase time projection chamber designed for direct Dark Matter searches. Such a device allows to explore the low energy frontier in LAr with a charge imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-20 ArDM Collaboration , A. Marchionni , C. Amsler , A. Badertscher , V. Boccone , A. Bueno , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , J. Coleman , W. Creus , A. Curioni , M. Daniel , E. J. Dawe , U. Degunda , A. Gendotti , L. Epprecht , S. Horikawa , L. Kaufmann , L. Knecht , M. Laffranchi , C. Lazzaro , P. K. Lightfoot , D. Lussi , J. Lozano , K. Mavrokoridis , A. Melgarejo , P. Mijakowski , G. Natterer , S. Navas-Concha , P. Otyugova , M. de Prado , P. Przewlocki , C. Regenfus , F. Resnati , M. Robinson , J. Rochet , L. Romero , E. Rondio , A. Rubbia , L. Scotto-Lavina , N. J. C. Spooner , T. Strauss , C. Touramanis , J. Ulbricht , T. Viant

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

The paper is considering an opportunity for the CERN/GranSasso (CNGS) neutrino complex, concurrent time-wise with T2K and NOvA, to search for theta_13 oscillations and CP violation. Compared with large water Cherenkov (T2K) and fine grained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Baibussinov , M. Baldo Ceolin , G. Battistoni , P. Benetti , A. Borio , E. Calligarich , M. Cambiaghi , F. Cavanna , S. Centro , A. G. Cocco , R. Dolfini , A. Gigli Berzolari , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , G. Mannocchi , F. Mauri , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , C. Montanari , O. Palamara , L. Periale , A. Piazzoli , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , C. Rubbia , P. Sala , G. Satta , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli

MicroBooNE, A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) Neutrino Experiment

Liquid Argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is a promising detector technology for future neutrino experiments. MicroBooNE is an upcoming LArTPC neutrino experiment which will be located on-axis of Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Teppei Katori

First results from a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber in a Magnetic Field

A small liquid argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) was operated for the first time in a magnetic field of 0.55 Tesla. The imaging properties of the detector were not affected by the magnetic field. In a test run with cosmic rays a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Badertscher , M. Laffranchi , A. Meregaglia , A. Mueller , A. Rubbia

ICARUS and Status of Liquid Argon Technology

ICARUS is the largest liquid argon TPC detector ever built (~600 ton LAr mass). It operates underground at the LNGS laboratory in Gran Sasso. It has been smoothly running since summer 2010, collecting data with the CNGS beam and with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-10-11 Dorota Stefan

Future liquid Argon detectors

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Rubbia

Searching for short baseline anomalies with the LAr-TPC detector at shallow depths

The ICARUS Collaboration has operated successfully the Liquid Argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC), a novel and continuously sensitive bubble chamber like neutrino detector in the GranSasso Laboratory and an underground neutrino beam…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-08-28 C. Rubbia

Optimizing the Hit Finding Algorithm for Liquid Argon TPC Neutrino Detectors Using Parallel Architectures

Neutrinos are particles that interact rarely, so identifying them requires large detectors which produce lots of data. Processing this data with the computing power available is becoming even more difficult as the detectors increase in size…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-02 Sophie Berkman , Giuseppe Cerati , Kyle Knoepfel , Marc Mengel , Allison Reinsvold Hall , Michael Wang , Brian Gravelle , Boyana Norris

Precise 3D track reconstruction algorithm for the ICARUS T600 liquid argon time projection chamber detector

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors offer charged particle imaging capability with remarkable spatial resolution. Precise event reconstruction procedures are critical in order to fully exploit the potential of this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-03-26 M. Antonello , B. Baibussinov , P. Benetti , E. Calligarich , N. Canci , S. Centro , A. Cesana , K. Cieslik , D. B. Cline , A. G. Cocco , A. Dabrowska , D. Dequal , A. Dermenev , R. Dolfini , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , D. Gibin , S. Gninenko , A. Guglielmi , M. Haranczyk , J. Holeczek , A. Ivashkin , J. Kisiel , I. Kochanek , J. Lagoda , S. Mania , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , C. Montanari , S. Otwinowski , A. Piazzoli , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , P. Plonski , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , P. Sala , A. Scaramelli , E. Segreto , F. Sergiampietri , D. Stefan , J. Stepaniak , R. Sulej , M. Szarska , M. Terrani , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , H. Wang , X. Yang , A. Zalewska , K. Zaremba

Solar neutrino detection in a large volume double-phase liquid argon experiment

Precision measurements of solar neutrinos emitted by specific nuclear reaction chains in the Sun are of great interest for developing an improved understanding of star formation and evolution. Given the expected neutrino fluxes and known…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-17 D. Franco , C. Giganti , P. Agnes , L. Agostino , B. Bottino , N. Canci , S. Davini , S. De Cecco , A. Fan , G. Fiorillo , C. Galbiati , A. M. Goretti , E. V. Hungerford , Al. Ianni , An. Ianni , C. Jollet , L. Marini , C. J. Martoff , A. Meregaglia , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , E. Pantic , A. Pocar , M. Razeti , A. L. Renshaw , B. Rossi , N. Rossi , Y. Suvorov , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , H. Wang , S. Zavatarelli

New read-out electronics for ICARUS-T600 liquid Argon TPC. Description, simulation and tests of the new front-end and ADC system

The ICARUS T600, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC) detector mainly devoted to neutrino physics, underwent a major overhauling at CERN in 2016-2017, which included also a new design of the read-out electronics, in view of its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 L. Bagby , B. Baibussinov , V. Bellini , M. Bonesini , A. Braggiotti , L. Castellani , S. Centro , T. Cervi , A. G. Cocco , F. Fabris , A. Falcone , C. Farnese , A. Fava , F. Fichera , D. Franciotti , G. Galet , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , R. Guida , W. Ketchum , S. Marchini , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , G. Menon , C. Montanari , M. Nessi , M. Nicoletto , R. Pedrotta , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , G. Rampazzo , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , A. Scaramelli , F. Sergiampietri , M. Spanu , M. Torti , F. Tortorici , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , A. Zani , P. G. Zatti

Real-time Anomaly Detection for Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

We present a real-time anomaly detection framework for liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), targeting applications in particle physics experiments such as the Short Baseline Near Detector or the future Deep Underground Neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-28 Seokju Chung , Jack Cleeve , Akshay Malige , Georgia Karagiorgi , Lino Gerlach , Adrian A. Pol , Isobel Ojalvo

GLACIER and related R&D

Liquid argon detectors, with mass up to 100 kton, are being actively studied in the context of proton decay searches, neutrino astrophysics and for the next generation of long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments to study the neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-08-17 Alessandro Curioni

A hardware implementation of Region-of-Interest selection in LAr-TPC for data reduction and triggering

Large Liquid Argon TPC detectors in the range of multikton mass for neutrino and astroparticle physics require the extraction and treatment of signals from some 105 wires. In order to enlarge the throughtput of the DAQ system an on-line…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-03-07 B. Baibussinov , S. Centro , K. Cieslik , D. Dequal , C. Farnese , A. Fava , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , G. Meng , F. Pietropaolo , C. Rubbia , E. Scantamburlo , F. Varanini , S. Ventura

MicroBooNE

The MicroBooNE experiment is a 170 ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) that will begin running at Fermilab in 2013. Its primary physics goal is to explore the low energy excess of events seen by the MiniBooNE experiment and it…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-10 C. M. Ignarra

Light detection and Cosmic Rejection in the ICARUS LArTPC at Fermilab

The ICARUS-T600 detector is a 760-ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) currently operating at Fermilab as the Far Detector in the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program. The SBN program is composed of three LArTPCs with a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-12 Anna Heggestuen

The ICARUS Experiment, A Second-Generation Proton Decay Experiment and Neutrino Observatory at the Gran Sasso Laboratory

The final phase of the ICARUS physics program requires a sensitive mass of liquid Argon of 5000 tons or more. The T600 detector stands today as the first living proof that such large detector can be built and that liquid Argon imaging…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Arneodo