Status and perspectives of HARP

✍ Scribed by Mario Campanelli

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 138
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.11.095

✦ Synopsis

The HARP experiment has been taking data during the summer of 2001 and 2002 at CERN on the PS beam. Its primary goal has been to measure low-energy hadron cross-sections, and angular distributions of decay products. These measurements, presently quite incomplete, will be of primary use for the understanding of neutrino beams, both artificial and produced in cosmic rays. Detector performances and some first results will be presented, as well as a road map to get to the final measurements.