Non-accelerator particle physics
Abstract
The goals of this research are the experimental testing of fundamental theories of physics such as grand unification and the exploration of cosmic phenomena through the techniques of particle physics. We are working on the MACRO experiment, which employs a large area underground detector, to search for grand unification magnetic monopoles and dark matter candidates and to study cosmic ray muons as well as low and high energy neutrinos. The NuIMB project seeks to: refurbish and upgrade the IMB water Cerenkov detector to perform an improved proton decay search together with a long baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment using a kiloton liquid scintillator (the Perry experiment); and to develop technology for improved liquid scintillators, very low background materials in support of the MACRO and Perry experiments, and for new solar neutrino experiments.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- September 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991napp.bookQ....S
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- Cerenkov Counters;
- Cosmic Rays;
- Dark Matter;
- Magnetic Monopoles;
- Muons;
- Neutrinos;
- Scintillation Counters;
- Unified Field Theory;
- Cerenkov Radiation;
- Solar Neutrinos;
- Physics (General)