Nov 26, 2010
MicroMegas defies the cold to explore the world of the neutrino!
MicroMegas defies the cold to explore the world of the neutrino!

Figure 1: The MicroMegas detector used during the test. The detector surface is 10 cm x10 cm.

In August 2010 at CERN in Geneva, a team of physicists from SEDI and SPP working in collaboration with a group from ETH-Zurich obtained the first successful results from a MicroMegas detector operating in a time projection chamber filled with pure cryogenic argon at a temperature of 87.2 kelvin. 

 

 

 

 

Contacts:

 

Olivier BESIDA

Marco ZITO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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