Gargamelle
Sign in to savethumb|View of Gargamelle bubble chamber detector in the West Hall at CERN, February 1977 thumb|The chamber of Gargamelle is currently on exhibition at CERN
Article
10 sectionsContents
- Background
- Conception and construction
- Experimental setup
- The chamber
- The neutrino beam
- Results and discoveries
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|View of Gargamelle bubble chamber detector in the West Hall at CERN, February 1977 thumb|The chamber of Gargamelle is currently on exhibition at CERN
Gargamelle was a heavy liquid bubble chamber detector in operation at CERN between 1970 and 1979. It was designed to detect neutrinos and antineutrinos, which were produced with a beam from the Proton Synchrotron (PS) between 1970 and 1976, before the detector was moved to the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). In 1979, an irreparable crack was discovered in the bubble chamber, and the detector was decommissioned. It is currently part of the "Microcosm" exhibition at CERN, open to the public.