The ANTARES, NEMO, and NESTOR groups have formed the KM3NeT consortium for a km3-scale neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere, to compliment the sky coverage of IceCube and have unsurpassed angular resolution; O.ldeg @ 100 TeV. This challenging project will require the installation of thousands of photo-detectors several kilometres below the sea and will study many astrophysical objects, including supernova remnants, active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts and possibly dark matter. In April 2008 KM3NeT published its CDR. In late 2009 the TDR will detail the design and expected physics performance of the future detector. An ED-funded preparatory phase will lead through to the start of construction. We present the physics objectives and outline the technological aspects. © 2010 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
KM3NeT - a cubic-kilometre-scale deep water neutrino telescope for the Mediterranean Sea / DE BONIS, Giulia. - (2010), pp. 190-194. (Intervento presentato al convegno 11th International Conference on Advanced Technology and Particle Physics (ICATTP) tenutosi a Como; Italy nel 5-9 Ottobre 2009) [10.1142/9789814307529_0032].
KM3NeT - a cubic-kilometre-scale deep water neutrino telescope for the Mediterranean Sea.
DE BONIS, Giulia
2010
Abstract
The ANTARES, NEMO, and NESTOR groups have formed the KM3NeT consortium for a km3-scale neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere, to compliment the sky coverage of IceCube and have unsurpassed angular resolution; O.ldeg @ 100 TeV. This challenging project will require the installation of thousands of photo-detectors several kilometres below the sea and will study many astrophysical objects, including supernova remnants, active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts and possibly dark matter. In April 2008 KM3NeT published its CDR. In late 2009 the TDR will detail the design and expected physics performance of the future detector. An ED-funded preparatory phase will lead through to the start of construction. We present the physics objectives and outline the technological aspects. © 2010 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
