Speaker
Alberto Guglielmi
(PD)
Description
The ICARUS-T600 is the biggest LAr-TPC detector ever realized. The ICARUS
Collaboration 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. It performed a sensitive search for anomalous nue appearance
as suggested by LSND signal and experimental neutrino anomalies at reactors and
with the calibration sources in solar neutrino searches. The analysis of the νμCC
events collected with the CNGS beam is progressing, in view of the comparison with
the expected flux in absence of anomalies. The collected cosmic ray triggers are being
analyzed too aiming at studying the atmospheric neutrino interactions.
The detector is being overhauled at CERN and will be ready to be installed at
Fermilab by the end of this year to investigate within the SBN project the presence of
sterile neutrino, exploring in three years of data taking the νμ to νe appearance signal
with 5 sigma sensitivity in the parameter region indicated by the LSND experiment
and measuring the νμ disappearance with a sensitivity exceeding an order of
magnitude the present experimental limits.
Primary author
Alberto Guglielmi
(PD)