Status of the AMANDA South Pole Neutrino Detector
Abstract
Description
Initial deployment of optical modules near 1 and 2 kilometer depth indicate that deep polar ice is the most transparent known natural solid. Experience with early data has revealed that a detector, conceived to measure muons tracks, can also measure energy of high energy neutrinos as well as bursts of MeV neutrinos, e.g. produced by supernovae and gamma ray bursts. We plan to complete AMANDA this austral summer to form a detector of 11 deep strings instrumented over 400 meters height with 300 optical modules. We will argue that ice is the ideal medium to deploy a future kilometer-scale detector and discuss the first deployment of 10 strings of kilometer length.
Latex 2.09, 11 pages, 4 postscript figures embedded using epsf.sty. Contribution by F. Halzen, on behalf of the AMANDA Collaboration, to the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Aspects of Dark Matter in Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, September 1996
Latex 2.09, 11 pages, 4 postscript figures embedded using epsf.sty. Contribution by F. Halzen, on behalf of the AMANDA Collaboration, to the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Aspects of Dark Matter in Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, September 1996