Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 40, No. 11, November 2009, page 3049

The ICARUS T600 Experiment in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory

J. Kisiel, K. Cieślik, A. Dąbrowska, J. Holeczek, D. Kiełczewska, I. Kochanek, T. Kozłowski, J. Łagoda, S. Mania, P. Mijakowski, T.J. Palczewski, M. Posiadała, P. Przewłocki, E. Rondio, J. Sobczyk, D. Stefan, J. Stepaniak, R. Sulej, M. Szarska, T. Szeglowski, M. Szeptycka, T. Wąchała, A. Zalewska

With a mass of about 600 tons of Liquid Argon (LAr), the ICARUS T600 detector is the biggest, up to now, LAr Time Projection Chamber (TPC). Following its successful test run, on the Earth surface, in Pavia (Italy) in 2001, the detector is now very close to start data taking in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory. The main features of the LAr TPC technique, together with a short discussion of some of the ICARUS T600 test run results, are presented in this paper.

PACS numbers: 29.40.–n, 29.40.Gx

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