MicroMegas defies the cold to explore the world of the neutrino!

MicroMegas defies the cold to explore the world of the neutrino!

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.

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

Contacts:

Olivier BESIDA

Marco ZITO