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Article
Report number	physics/0701153
Title	The OPERA experiment Target Tracker
Author(s)	Adam, T (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Baussan, E. (Neuchatel U.) ; Borer, K. (U. Bern (main)) ; Campagne, Jean-Eric (Orsay, LAL) ; Con-Sen, N. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; de La Taille, C. (Orsay, LAL) ; Dick, N. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Dracos, M. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Gaudiot, G. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Goeltzenlichter, T. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Gornushkin, Y. (Dubna, JINR) ; Grapton, J.-N. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Guyonnet, J.-L. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Hess, M. (U. Bern (main)) ; Igersheim, R. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Janicsko Csathy, J. (Neuchatel U.) ; Jollet, C. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Juget, F. (Neuchatel U.) ; Kocher, H. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Krasnoperov, A. (Dubna, JINR) ; Krumstein, Z. (Dubna, JINR) ; Martin-Chassard, G. (Orsay, LAL) ; Moser, U. (U. Bern (main)) ; Nozdrin, A. (Dubna, JINR) ; Olchevski, A. (Dubna, JINR) ; Porokhovoi, S. (Dubna, JINR) ; Raux, L. (Orsay, LAL) ; Sadovski, A. (Dubna, JINR) ; Schuler, J. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Schutz, H.-U. (U. Bern (main)) ; Schwab, C. (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Smolnikov, A. (Dubna, JINR) ; Van Beek, G. (Brussels U., IIHE) ; Vilain, P. (Brussels U., IIHE) ; Walchli, T. (U. Bern (main)) ; Wilquet, G. (Brussels U., IIHE) ; Wurtz, J. (Strasbourg, IPHC)
Publication	2007
Imprint	12 Jan 2007
Number of pages	25
In:	Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 577 (2007) 523-539
DOI	10.1016/j.nima.2007.04.147
Subject category	Other Fields of Physics
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN SPS ; OPERA CNGS1
Abstract	The main task of the Target Tracker detector of the long baseline neutrino oscillation OPERA experiment is to locate in which of the target elementary constituents, the lead/emulsion bricks, the neutrino interactions have occurred and also to give calorimetric information about each event. The technology used consists in walls of two planes of plastic scintillator strips, one per transverse direction. Wavelength shifting fibres collect the light signal emitted by the scintillator strips and guide it to both ends where it is read by multi-anode photomultiplier tubes. All the elements used in the construction of this detector and its main characteristics are described.

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