Gargamelleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Gargamelle was a giant bubble chamber detector at CERN, designed mostly for the detection of neutrinos. Built in France, with a diameter of nearly 2 meters and 4.8 meters in length, Gargamelle held nearly 12 cubic meters of freon (CF3Br). It operated from 1970 to 1978 with a neutrino beam from the CERN Proton Synchrotron. It was used to make one of the most important discoveries ever made at CERN: the experimental observation of the weak neutral currents in 1973, shortly after their theoretical prediction.