Icarus

Abstract

ICARUS T600 Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber 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 electronic detectors. In 2013 ICARUS concluded a very successful, long duration run with the T600 detector at the LNGS underground laboratory taking data both with the CNGS neutrino beam and with cosmic rays. Several relevant physics and technical results were achieved. A joint ICARUS/SBND/MicroBooNE effort is taking place to develop a collaborative, international program at FNAL's Booster Neutrino Beam (and NuMI off-axis) with three detectors at different baselines by 2018 (near: SBND, mid: Mi-croBooNE, far: ICARUS). The T600 detector was transported to CERN at the end of 2014 for a series of upgrades before being taken to FNAL. The refurbishment operations, inside the WA104 programme at CERN, of the Icarus T600 detector will be outlined, with an introduction to the physics program at the FNAL short-baseline Booster neutrino beam (BNB).

A Novel Cosmic Ray Tagger System for Liquid Argon TPC Neutrino Detectors

“…The program is composed of the currently running MicroBooNE detector, a 170 t Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with charge-collection readout [4], located 470 m away from the BNB primary target. Besides this, the 112 t Short Baseline Near Detector (SBND) [5] and 600 t ICARUS T-600 detector [6], both LArTPCs, are respectively located at 110 m and 600 m away from the BNB target. The construction of the SBN detectors is expected to be completed in 2017.…”