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Accurate GPS orientation of a long baseline for Neutrino Oscillation Experiments at Fermilab
Author(s) -
Soler Tomás,
Foote Richard H.,
Hoyle Dixon,
Bocean Virgil
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2000gl011539
Subject(s) - fermilab , neutrino , physics , neutrino oscillation , nuclear physics , muon , orientation (vector space) , fermi gamma ray space telescope , baseline (sea) , beam (structure) , measurements of neutrino speed , neutrino detector , particle physics , optics , solar neutrino , astrophysics , geometry , geology , oceanography , mathematics
Recent research in elementary particle physics is concentrating a great amount of effort on neutrino oscillation experiments. These studies require the accurate pointing of neutrino beams between two distant points. The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) intends to build a new particle beamline to direct a beam of muon neutrinos from its Main Injector toward a far‐off (735 km away) underground detector capable of searching for non‐zero neutrino mass by looking for neutrino oscillations. This paper describes the GPS work carried out to accurately position the reference ground marks at the two sites from which the spatial orientation of the baseline can be accurately determined. The effect of plate rotations on the absolute orientation of the baseline was also investigated.