Atmospheric Neutrino Search in the ICARUS T600 Detector †

The 760-ton liquid argon ICARUS T600 detector performed a successful three-year physics run at the underground LNGS laboratories, studying in particular neutrino oscillations with the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN. This detector has been moved in 2017 to Fermilab after a significant overhauling and w...

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Main Author: Christian Farnese
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description The 760-ton liquid argon ICARUS T600 detector performed a successful three-year physics run at the underground LNGS laboratories, studying in particular neutrino oscillations with the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN. This detector has been moved in 2017 to Fermilab after a significant overhauling and will be exposed soon to the Booster Neutrino Beam acting as the far station to search for sterile neutrinos within the SBN program. The contribution addresses the developed methods and the results of an analysis to identify and reconstruct atmospheric neutrino interactions collected by ICARUS T600 in the underground run at LNGS. Despite the limited statistics, this search demonstrates the excellent quality of the detector reconstruction and the feasibility of an automatic search for the electron neutrino CC interactions in the sub-GeV range, as required for the study of the BNB neutrinos at FNAL.
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spelling doaj.art-49ca490794c14f18873cafbc74b0f73b2022-12-22T04:09:34ZengMDPI AGUniverse2218-19972019-01-01511710.3390/universe5010017universe5010017Atmospheric Neutrino Search in the ICARUS T600 Detector †Christian Farnese0Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Padova, ed INFN, Sezione di Padova, via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova PD, ItalyThe 760-ton liquid argon ICARUS T600 detector performed a successful three-year physics run at the underground LNGS laboratories, studying in particular neutrino oscillations with the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN. This detector has been moved in 2017 to Fermilab after a significant overhauling and will be exposed soon to the Booster Neutrino Beam acting as the far station to search for sterile neutrinos within the SBN program. The contribution addresses the developed methods and the results of an analysis to identify and reconstruct atmospheric neutrino interactions collected by ICARUS T600 in the underground run at LNGS. Despite the limited statistics, this search demonstrates the excellent quality of the detector reconstruction and the feasibility of an automatic search for the electron neutrino CC interactions in the sub-GeV range, as required for the study of the BNB neutrinos at FNAL.http://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/5/1/17neutrino physicsliquid argonTPC
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Atmospheric Neutrino Search in the ICARUS T600 Detector †
Universe
neutrino physics
liquid argon
TPC
title Atmospheric Neutrino Search in the ICARUS T600 Detector †
title_full Atmospheric Neutrino Search in the ICARUS T600 Detector †
title_fullStr Atmospheric Neutrino Search in the ICARUS T600 Detector †
title_full_unstemmed Atmospheric Neutrino Search in the ICARUS T600 Detector †
title_short Atmospheric Neutrino Search in the ICARUS T600 Detector †
title_sort atmospheric neutrino search in the icarus t600 detector †
topic neutrino physics
liquid argon
TPC
url http://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/5/1/17
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