The Large-Volume Detector (LVD) of the Gran Sasso Laboratory.
Abstract
The LVD, on 1800-ton 31 x 13 x 12-m liquid-scintillation/streamer-tube detector planned for Gran Sasso Laboratory to serve as a successor to the Mt. Blanc liquid-scintillation detector, is characterized, and the physics of the particles and processes it is designed to monitor is discussed. Consideration is given to neutrinos from collapsing stars, solar-neutrino astrophysics, neutrinos from stellar collapses in the past evolution of the universe, high-energy neutrino astronomy, atmospheric neutrinos, measurement of neutrino mass and oscillations, neutrino geophysics, cosmic-ray physics (energy spectrum, angular distribution, muon bundles, muon interactions, neutron production by high-energy muons, localized discrete cosmic-ray sources, and cosmic-ray scintillations at 2 TV), magnetic monopoles, and nuclear instability.
- Publication:
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Nuovo Cimento C Geophysics Space Physics C
- Pub Date:
- April 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF02514845
- Bibcode:
- 1986NCimC...9..237A
- Keywords:
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- Cosmic Ray Showers;
- Neutrinos;
- Particle Tracks;
- Scintillation Counters;
- Underground Structures;
- Elementary Particle Interactions;
- Energy Spectra;
- Gravitational Collapse;
- High Energy Interactions;
- Magnetic Monopoles;
- Muons;
- Radioactive Decay;
- Solar Neutrinos;
- Detectors:Neutrinos;
- Detectors:Solar Neutrinos;
- Neutrinos:Detectors;
- Solar Neutrinos:Detectors