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Soler et al. 2000
Soler, T., Foote, R.H., Hoyle, D. and Bocean, V. (2000). Accurate GPS orientation of a long baseline for Neutrino Oscillation Experiments at Fermilab. Geophysical Research Letters 27: doi: 10.1029/2000GL011539. issn: 0094-8276.

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.

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Geodesy and Gravity, Control surveys, Geodesy and Gravity, Space geodetic surveys, Geodesy and Gravity, Terrestrial reference systems, Geodesy and Gravity, Instruments and techniques
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Geophysical Research Letters
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