Instrumentation

New ND280 Upgrade milestone achieved

May 8, 2023

Neutrinos Group

At CERN, the first cosmic tracks with the first of the final TPC field cages have been recorded. An important milestone towards shipping the first TPC to Japan this summer.

On a rleated note, Analysis of test beam data taken with a prototype of TPC with resistive Micromegas for the T2K Near Detector upgrade has been published by Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A.

And on May 10th, the 149th Meeting of the SPSC committee will be held. Thorsten Lux will present the status of the NP07 experiment (ND280 Upgrade project)

Latest Group News

New Publication

New Neutrinos group paper

January 25, 2023

The IFAE Neutrino group has a new publication: SuperFGD prototype time resolution studies ( I. Alekseev et al 2023 JINST 18 P01012) related to the T2K ND280 Upgrade project.

New Position

Pilar Casado accepted as a new member in the T2K collaboration

January 12, 2023

Pilar Casado has been accepted by the T2K collaboration as a new member.

Instrumentation

Testbeam campaign for the ND280 Upgrade TPC

September 7, 2022

The ND280 Upgrade TPC group is currently performing a testbeam with a full readout plane consisting of 8 Micromegas.