The Large Volume Detector ( LVD ) is a particle physics experiment situated in the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy and is operated by the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). It has been in operation since June 1992, and is a member of the Supernova Early Warning System . Among other work, the detector should be able to detect neutrinos from our galaxy and possibly nearby galaxies. The LVD uses 840 scintillator counters around a large tank of hydrocarbons. The detector can detect both charged current and neutral current interactions.
7-482: In 2012, they published the results of measurements of the speed of CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso . The results were consistent with the speed of light . See measurements of neutrino speed . This particle physics –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This astrophysics -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso The CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso ( CNGS ) project
14-626: The crust of the Earth and it is expected that during flight some of the muon neutrinos convert into other neutrino types such as tau neutrinos . Once the beam arrived at Gran Sasso, the OPERA and ICARUS experiments were used to detect the neutrinos. The first candidates for neutrino oscillation to tau neutrinos were announced in May 2010 by the OPERA experiment. In total five tau neutrinos were observed, consistent with
21-533: The CNGS tunnel in a vacuum tube. These particles are naturally unstable, and their decay products include muons and muon neutrinos . All particles except neutrinos (protons, muons, pion, kaon...) stop near the end of the tunnel. The neutrinos continue their flight unaffected, as they rarely interact with matter. The number of muons was measured at this point, which gave an indication of the beam's profile and intensity. This beam then passed 732 kilometres (455 mi) through
28-807: The SPS–LHC transfer tunnels, at the Franco – Swiss border near Geneva . It used the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator as a source of high-energy protons . Approval for the CNGS project was signed by the CERN Council in December 1999, with civil engineering on the project starting the following September. Construction of the tunnels and service caverns was completed in mid-2004, with equipment installation completed in summer 2005 and commissioning being carried out throughout spring 2006. The first proton beam
35-481: The expectations from the theory of neutrino oscillation . On 22 September 2011, the OPERA collaboration garnered international attention when they released a preprint reporting the Faster-than-light neutrino anomaly , wherein neutrinos were measured to be travelling, on average, at faster-than-light speed. On 24 February 2012, the team said they had discovered two problems with their previous test, muddying
42-661: Was a physics project of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The aim of the project was to analyse the hypothesis of neutrino oscillation by directing a beam of neutrinos from CERN's facilities to the detector of the OPERA experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), located in the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy . The CNGS facility was housed in a tunnel which diverged from one of
49-645: Was sent to the target on 11 July 2006, with the CNGS facility being approved for physics operations on 18 August 2006. CNGS ceased operation in 2012. The tunnel was then repurposed for the AWAKE experiment, which became operational in 2016. A proton beam was taken from the SPS at 400 GeV and is made to collide with a graphite target within the CNGS tunnel. The resulting particles, most importantly kaons and pions among many other particles, were then focused by magnetic lensing and travelled 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) down
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