MONOLITH: a next generation experiment for athospheric neutrinos

Abstract

MONOLITH is a massive magnetized tracking calorimeter, optimized for the detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos, proposed at the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy. The main goal is to establish (or reject) the neutrino oscillation hypothesis through an explicit observation of the full first oscillation swing (the ``L/E pattern''). Its performance, status and prospects are briefly reviewed.Comment: Talk given at Europhysics Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (NOW2000), Otranto, Italy, September 9-16, 2000 (4 pages, 3 figures