The research and development project RD46

High resolution tracking devices based on capillaries filled with liquid scintillator

Welcome to the RD46 home page.

Our R&D work on has been started inside the CHORUS collaboration as a Pilot Project, aiming at the development of detectors for neutrino physics. In 1995 the project has been officially accepted as a CERN-based R&D project under the name RD46.

General Information

R&D proposal, (PS-file without the figures) CERN/LHCC 95-7

R&D status report for the LHCC committee (PS-file) CERN/LHCC 97-38

R&D subjects

What is a capillary detector

Present detector performance

Possible future applications: neutrino physics, LHC-B

Collaboration and Institutes

Publications

Internal reports (authorisation needed)

Recent Progress

Images of neutrino interactions

- with the target in transverse orientation

- occuring in the upstream passive layer

- with the target in longitudinal orientation

Capillaries seen with the electron-microscope (Lausanne)

Everything you have to know about liquid scintillators

First test of capillary layers

- preparation of layers (Lausanne)

- test of layers

The research and development project RD46

Recent Progress

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