CERN-LNGS distance computation for the OPERA project

Thursday Jan 26, 2012, 5:30 PM → 7:30 PM Europe/Rome

Aula B. Touschek (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via Enrico Fermi 40, Frascati)

ABSTRACT

This talk describes the activities carried out in order to estimate the distance travelled by the neutrinos beam between CERN and LNGS with an accuracy better than 1 meter. In particular, the distance between two fundamental points has been estimated: the start point at CERN (de fined as T-40-S-CERN) and the OPERA detector point (defined as A1-9999). The measurements campaigns, at CERN and at LNGS, were performed using both terrestrial and Global Positioning System (GPS) based geodetic techniques. The positions of the two fundamental points were estimated in a common reference frame through the processing of the collected observations. The resulting distance (730534.610 m) was estimated with an accuracy at the level of 20 cm, remarkably better than the stated limit

Slides OPERAGroup_26_2012.pdf