Author/Authors :
Ambrosio، نويسنده , , M and Bari، نويسنده , , G and Bencivenni، نويسنده , , G and Candela، نويسنده , , A and Chiarini، نويسنده , , A and Chignoli، نويسنده , , F and Deo، نويسنده , , M.De and DʹIncecco، نويسنده , , M and Gerli، نويسنده , , S and Giusti، نويسنده , , P and Gomez، نويسنده , , F and Gustavino، نويسنده , , C and Lindozzi، نويسنده , , M and Mannocchi، نويسنده , , G and Menghetti، نويسنده , , H and Morello، نويسنده , , C and Murtas، نويسنده , , F، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
MONOLITH (Massive Observatory for Neutrino Oscillation or LImits on THeir existence) is the project of an experiment to study atmospheric neutrino oscillations with a massive magnetized iron detector. The baseline option is a 34 kt iron detector based on the use of about 50 000 m2 of the glass Resistive Plate Chambers (glass RPCs) developed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). An 8 ton prototype equipped with 23 m2 of glass RPC has been realized and tested at the T7-PS beam at CERN. The energy resolution for pions follows a 68%/E(GeV)+2% law for orthogonally incident particles, in the energy range between 2 and 10 GeV. The time resolution and the tracking capability of the glass RPC are suitable for the MONOLITH experiment.
