Searching for short baseline anomalies with the LAr-TPC detector at shallow depths

TL;DR

This paper discusses adapting the ICARUS Liquid Argon TPC detector for short baseline neutrino anomaly searches at shallow depths, addressing challenges posed by increased cosmic ray backgrounds.

Contribution

It introduces significant modifications to operate the ICARUS detector effectively at shallow depths for neutrino anomaly detection.

Findings

Successful operation modifications for shallow depth deployment

Enhanced detection capabilities for short baseline neutrino experiments

Potential to identify LSND-like neutrino anomalies

Abstract

The ICARUS Collaboration has operated successfully the Liquid Argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC), a novel and continuously sensitive bubble chamber like neutrino detector in the GranSasso Laboratory and an underground neutrino beam coming from the CERN-SPS. ICARUS may now be moved at the 8 GeV FNAL-Booster for a search of LSND-like neutrino-electron anomalies at a shallow depth and shorter distance from the target, where three experiments will simultaneously study neutrinos at three different locations. New and substantial modifications are described in order to make ICARUS operable in the presence of such a large cosmic ray muon background.