Contribution to the experiment nomad searching for neutrino oscillations

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: FMBI950406

Project closed

Start date 25 March 1996

End date 24 March 1997

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
France

Objective

The question whether neutrinos are massive is one of the most important in today's physics. The observance of neutrino oscillations would prove the existence of a non-vanishing neutrino mass.
The NOMAD experiment searches for oscillations of muon neutrinos, provided by a high energy neutrino beam of CERN, into tau neutrinos, which shall be identified by their interactions in the detector. NOMAD will be a factor of 10 more sensitive as previous similar experiments.
A major part of the detector are 50 drift chambers (3m x 3m) built in Saclay. They serve as neutrino target and are used to reconstruct the tracks of charged particles.
I will participate in operating the drift chambers, as well as in the general data taking during periodoc stays at CERN. Finally I will contribute to the analysis of the data.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › physical sciences › theoretical physics › particle physics › neutrinos

Programme(s)

• FP4-TMR - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0302 - Post-doctoral research training grants
• TP01 - Elementary Particles and Fields

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinator

Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA)

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay ; 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

Not available

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Total cost: No data