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Experiment Description

The ICARUS detector is a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) filled with liquid Argon.It represents a new generation of bubble chambers, with the advantage of being operated over a very large sensitive volume, continuously sensitive, self-triggering, able to provide three-dimensional views of ionising events with particle identification from dE/dx and range measurements

 

 
 
   
  It is based on
      the novel detection tecnique of liquid Argon TPC
      Its extrapolation to large (kton) masses
       
  It provides a rich physics programme:
      Proton decay
      Solar neutrinos
      Supernovae neutrinos
      Athmosferic neutrinos
      LBL neutrino oscillations (CNGS,future beam,...)