Large volume Cherenkov detectors are under construction or have been proposed for detection of astrophysical neutrinos Under water or ice. In all such cases, the neutrinos are inferred from the detection of the Cherenkov light emitted by the charged leptons created in neutrino interactions inside or around the apparatus. The event reconstruction is thus based on charge and time measurements performed by a system of widely spaced optical sensors. The time calibration is a very delicate operation for such experiments, as it may directly affect the reconstruction efficiency and pointing capabilities of the apparatus. In this paper, we illustrate the systems under study for the km(3)-scale project NEW (NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory), focusing Oil the implementations for the NEMO Phase-1 and Phase-2 prototyping campaigns. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Time calibration of the NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory (NEMO) / Marco, Circella; Nemo, Collaboration; Capone, Antonio. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. - ISSN 0168-9002. - STAMPA. - 602:1(2009), pp. 187-189. (Intervento presentato al convegno 3rd International Workshop on a Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope for the Mediterranean Sea tenutosi a Toulon, FRANCE nel APR 22-24, 2008) [10.1016/j.nima.2008.12.036].
Time calibration of the NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory (NEMO)
CAPONE, Antonio
2009
Abstract
Large volume Cherenkov detectors are under construction or have been proposed for detection of astrophysical neutrinos Under water or ice. In all such cases, the neutrinos are inferred from the detection of the Cherenkov light emitted by the charged leptons created in neutrino interactions inside or around the apparatus. The event reconstruction is thus based on charge and time measurements performed by a system of widely spaced optical sensors. The time calibration is a very delicate operation for such experiments, as it may directly affect the reconstruction efficiency and pointing capabilities of the apparatus. In this paper, we illustrate the systems under study for the km(3)-scale project NEW (NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory), focusing Oil the implementations for the NEMO Phase-1 and Phase-2 prototyping campaigns. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
