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Our UCLA group will have an opportunity to analyze data in 2011 from the first liquid Argon 600 ton detector located at Gran Sasso, Italy. The detector project is known as ICARUS (Image Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals). General description information can be found on the website at http://icarus.lngs.infn.it/. It is expected to begin operation this year looking for cosmic ray and rare astroparticle events, and rare neutrino oscillation events from the neutrino beam directed at it at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 732 km away. In the 10 weeks interim, the successful candidate will help scan events from either simulation or the neutrino beam experiment. The student will become familiar with the liquid Argon cryogenic detector technology and neutrino and astroparticle physics. |