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EXPERIMENT LVD
Name of experiment/device LVD, Large Volume Detector
Present Spokesperson
(location, email)		 A.Zichichi
(Bologna University, Italy, zichichi@cern.ch)
Collaborating Institutions 17 Institutions:
University of Bologna and INFN-Bologna, Italy
University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
IFSI-INAF, Torino; University of Torino and INFN-Torino, Italy
..
Collaborating countriesItaly, Russia, USA, Brazil, Japan
Number of authors 71
Number of PhD students 6
Location/Infrastructure Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
Funding agenciesMainly INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare),
INR (Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
Scientific goalsObservation of neutrino bursts from Gravitational Stellar Collapses. The detector sensitivity allows to monitor the entire Galaxy.
Design LVD is an array of 840 liquid scintillator counters for a total sensitive mass of 1000 tons.
Present status (R&D, construction, data taking, closed)LVD is successfully running in its final configuration from 2001, with a duty cycle > 99%.
Most relevant results No evidence has been found for neutrino burst from gravitational stellar collapses (GSC) in the Galaxy since 1992. the resulting upper limit to the rate of GSC at 90% c.l. is 0.2 event/yr.
Perspective:
- total cost, status of funding
- merging with other projects
- close R&D relations to other
projects
- coming relevant reviews
- branch points		 LVD is totally founded.

Review to the Gran Sasso Scientific Committee and to the funding authorities twice per year.
Which relevant results are expected, and when It will furnish, in occasion of the next galactic gravitational collapse, important information regarding: collapse dynamics, explosion mechanism, neutrino features.
It will monitor the CNGS neutrino beam.
Most actual information
- web page
- recent transparencies available on the web
- recent results in journals or on preprint server.		 http://www.lngs.infn.it/

http://www.bo.infn.it/lvd/

CNGS beam monitor with the LVD detector. NIM A 516 (2004) 96-103 and hep-ex/0304018

Search for low energy neutrinos in correlation with the 8 events observed by the EXPLORER and NAUTILUS detectors in 2001. A&A 421 (2004) 399 astro-ph/0403207

Study of the effect of neutrino oscillation on the supernova neutrino signal with the LVD detector. Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl., 138 (2005) 115

Triggering on Neutrino Bursts in LVD. XXIX ICRC Conf. Proceedings OG 2.7

Update to 2005 of the results of the search for bursts from gravitational stellar collapse with LVD. XXIX ICRC Conf. Proceedings OG 2.5

Study of muon-induced neutron production, propagation and energy spectrum with the LVD detector at LNGS. XXIX ICRC Conf. Proceedings HE



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