The aim of the OPERA experiment is to verify the neutrino oscillation, directly measuring
the appearance of from an initially pure beam produced at CERN. For this purpose
OPERA detector is located underground Gran Sasso Laboratory(LNGS) 730 km away from
CERN. The detector structure designed to be a hybrid system consisting of emulsion targets
and electronic detectors. Total area of the emulsion targets in the OPERA detector is around
110000 m2 which needs fast and reliable automatic scanning systems. For this purpose, two
dierent automatic scanning systems were developed in Japan and Europe. For now there
are 12 scanning laboratories dedicated to the OPERA Experiment. The Emulsion Scanning
Laboratory in the Physics department of METU is one of the scanning laboratories for the
OPERA Experiment. The automatic scanning system in METU is European type which is
using commercial hardware for easy construction and maintain. Also the laboratory has a
unique feature in terms of experimental high energy physics laboratories. The emulsion scan-
ning laboratory in METU is the
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613364/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 July 2011 |
| Creators | Altinok, Ozgur |
| Contributors | Guler, Ali Murat |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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