Objective This project has the goal to prove that silica aerogel with very good optical quality can be used in different applications in elementary particle physics fieldThe project covers three aspects:1) The production of aerogel with uniformity in (n-1) better than 1%, of large dimension, stable in time with respect to its optical quality, and with hydrophobic property.2) The performance of aerogel application as RICH detector at the hadron collider LHC and in space. At a hadron collider this implies an intrinsic angular resolution of 2 mrad, to be proven in test beams.The use of aerogel in space and at a collider implies also the measurement of scintillation, to demonstrate that it doesn't spoil the resolution.3) The feasibility of a beam monitor with aerogel when LHC works with heavy ions beams. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) CERN - CERN Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Universita Milano-Bicocca and I.N.F.N. EU contribution No data Address Piazza della Scienza 3 20126 Milano Italy See on map Total cost No data Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CNRS/IN2P3 France EU contribution No data Address Avenue des Martyrs 53 38026 Grenoble cedex See on map Total cost No data Russian Academy of Sciences/ Sibirian Branch Boreskov Institute of Catalysis Russia EU contribution No data Address Lavrentieva 5 630090 Novosibirsk See on map Total cost No data Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics Russia EU contribution No data Address Lavrentieva 11 630090 Novosibirsk See on map Total cost No data
