Performance Of A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Exposed To The
  WANF Neutrino Beam

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Performance Of A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Exposed To The WANF Neutrino Beam

Abstract

We present the results of the first exposure of a Liquid Argon TPC to a multi-GeV neutrino beam. The data have been collected with a 50 liters ICARUS-like chamber located between the CHORUS and NOMAD experiments at the CERN West Area Neutrino Facility (WANF). We discuss both the instrumental performance of the detector and its capability to identify and reconstruct low multiplicity neutrino interactions.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures. Submitted for publication to Physical Review