Design, construction and tests of the ICARUS T600 detector

被引：373

作者：

Amerio, S

Amoruso, S

Antonello, M

Aprili, P

Armenante, M

Arneodo, F

Badertscher, A

Baiboussinov, B

Ceolin, MB

Battistoni, G

Bekman, B

Benetti, P

Bernardini, E

Bischofberger, M

di Tigliole, AB

Brunetti, R

Bruzzese, R

Bueno, A

Calligarich, E

Campanelli, M

Carbonara, F

Carpanese, C

Cavalli, D

Cavanna, F

Cennini, P

Centro, S

Cesana, A

Chen, C

Chen, D

Chen, DB

Chen, Y

Cid, R

Cline, DB

Cieslik, K

Cocco, AG

Corti, D

Dai, Z

De Vecchi, C

Dabrowska, A

Di Cicco, A

Dolfini, R

Ereditato, A

Felcini, M

Ferella, A

Ferrari, A

Ferri, F

Fiorillo, G

Galli, S

Gamez, DG

Ge, Y

机构：

[1] Univ Pavia, Dipartimento Fis Nucl & Teor, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

[3] Univ Padua, Padua, Italy

[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Padua, Italy

[5] Univ Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

[6] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-80125 Naples, Italy

[7] Univ Aquila, I-67100 Laquila, Italy

[8] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Laquila, Italy

[9] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Gran Sasso, Assergi, Italy

[10] ETH Honggerberg, Inst Particle Phys, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

[11] Univ Milan, Milan, Italy

[12] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-20133 Milan, Italy

[13] Silesian Univ, Inst Phys, PL-40007 Katowice, Poland

[14] Univ Granada, Dipartimento Fis Teor & Cosmos, E-18071 Granada, Spain

[15] Univ Granada, CAFPE, E-18071 Granada, Spain

[16] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

[17] Politecn Milan, CESNEF, I-20133 Milan, Italy

[18] Acad Sinica, IHEP, Beijing, Peoples R China

[19] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA

[20] H Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland

[21] Univ Wroclaw, Inst Theoret Phys, PL-50138 Wroclaw, Poland

[22] A Soltan Inst Nucl Studies, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland

[23] Univ Warsaw, Inst Expt Phys, Warsaw, Poland

[24] Krakow Tech Univ, Inst Mech & Machine Design, PL-31155 Krakow, Poland

[25] IFSI, Turin, Italy

[26] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy

[27] Univ Turin, I-10124 Turin, Italy

[28] Stanislaw Staszic Univ Min & Met, PL-30059 Krakow, Poland

[29] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Pisa, Italy

[30] Warsaw Univ Technol, Warsaw, Poland

来源：

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT | 2004年 / 527卷 / 03期

关键词：

liquid argon; TPC calorimetry; neutrino interaction; nucleon decay;

D O I：

10.1016/j.nima.2004.02.044

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

We have constructed and operated the ICARUS T600 liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC). The ICARUS T600 detector is the largest LAr TPC ever built, with a size of about 500 tons of fully imaging mass. The design and assembly of the detector relied on industrial support and represents the applications of concepts matured in laboratory tests to the kton scale. The ICARUS T600 was commissioned for a technical run that lasted about 3 months. During this period all the detector features were extensively tested with an exposure to cosmic-rays at surface with a resulting data collection of about 30000 events. The detector was developed as the first element of a modular design. Thanks to the concept of modularity, it will be possible to realize a detector with several ktons active mass, to act as an observatory for astroparticle and neutrino physics at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory and a second-generation nucleon decay experiment. In this paper a description of the ICARUS T600 is given, detailing its design specifications, assembly procedures and acceptance tests. Commissioning procedures and results of the technical run are also reported, as well as results from the off-line event reconstruction. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页数：82

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