Category: Experiment
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CNGS1
OPERA (or CNGS1) is an accelerator based neutrino experiment. It detected five tau neutrinos at Grand Sasso from a beam of muon neutrinos generated at CERN. Upon completion the OPERA exepriment is archiving it's data catalogue at CERN.
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ICECUBE
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the first detector of its kind, designed to observe the cosmos from deep within the South Pole ice. An international group of scientists responsible for the scientific research makes up the IceCube Collaboration. Encompassing a cubic kilometer of ice, IceCube searches for nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos. These high-energy…
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VERITAS
(Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is a ground-based gamma-ray instrument operating at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) in southern Arizona, USA. It is an array of four 12m optical reflectors for gamma-ray astronomy in the GeV – TeV energy range. These imaging Cherenkov telescopes are deployed such that they have the highest…
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DEAP
The DEAP Collaboration, a group of over 65 researchers from ten institutions in Canada, the UK and Mexico, has developed the DEAP-3600 detector – one of the most sensitive experiments for the direct detection of dark matter. DEAP-3600 has a sensitivity to dark matter interactions greater than a factor of twenty beyond the sensitivity of…
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T2K/SuperK
T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment in Japan, and is studying neutrino oscillations. Neutrinos are elementary particles which come in three “flavours”: electron, muon, and tau. They only interact through the weak force, and are very difficult to detect as they rarely interact with matter. Electron neutrinos are produced in large numbers…
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BESIII