NOMAD

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The Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector, or NOMAD, was an experiment designed to search for neutrino oscillations and to carry out a range of other particle physics measurements. Located at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) on the Franco-Swiss border outside Geneva, it was a collaborative effort of around 20 university departments and research institutes from 8 countries. About 160 physicists are involved, either full- or part-time, on the project. NOMAD took physics data from 1995 to 1998, accumulating well in excess of 1 million neutrino interactions. Some analysis of this data continues to this day.

Contents 1 The NOMAD Detector and its design 2 A beginner's guide to neutrinos 3 Neutrino oscillations 4 Neutrino experiments 5 NOMAD Institutes 6 NOMAD Publications

The NOMAD Detector and its design

• The NOMAD Detector and its design
• The West Area Neutrino Facility at CERN
• Searching for neutrino oscillations in NOMAD
• Other neutrino physics being carried out at NOMAD
• The Australian contribution to NOMAD
• STAR: a new silicon tracker for NOMAD as a prototype for a next generation neutrino experiment

A beginner's guide to neutrinos

• Probing the structure of matter
• The fundamental particles
• Why neutrinos "go through anything and everything"

Neutrino oscillations

• What are Neutrino Oscillations?
• The solar neutrino problem
• Neutrinos as dark matter
• Talks
  • Do Neutrinos Oscillate? Colloquium given by K. Varvell on 15th September 1997.
  • The Neutrino Oscillation Industry Colloquium given by P.Soler on 16 March 1998.

Neutrino experiments

Amongst all the neutrino experiments, we single out the two that operated in the wide-band neutrino beam at CERN: NOMAD itself, and NOMAD's friendly rivals, the CHORUS collaboration (experiment WA95).

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NOMAD Institutes

The institutes forming the NOMAD collaboration were:

• DAPNIA: Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée, CEA/Saclay, France
• CERN: European Laboratory for High Energy Physics / Organisation Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire, Geneva, Switzerland
• Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
• INR Moscow, Russia
• JINR: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA
• LAPP: Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
• Université de Paris VI & VII, France
• Universita degli Studi della Calabria, Italy
• Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
• Universita di Padova & Padova INFN, Italy
• Universita di Pavia & Pavia INFN, Italy
• Universita di Pisa & Pisa INFN, Italy
• Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Universität Dortmund, Germany
• University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, USA
• University of Sydney
• Institut Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia

NOMAD Publications

Here is a list.