Status and first results of the ANTARES neutrino telescope
| dc.creator | Carminati, G. | |
| dc.date | 2009-05-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T13:13:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T13:13:29Z | |
| dc.description | The ANTARES (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch) Collaboration constructed and deployed the world's largest operational underwater neutrino telescope, optimised for the detection of Cherenkov light produced by neutrino-induced muons. The detector has an effective area of about 0.1 square km and it is a first step towards a kilometric scale detector. The detector consists of a three-dimensional array of 884 photomultiplier tubes, arranged in 12 lines anchored at a depth of 2475 m in the Mediterranean Sea, 40 km offshore from Toulon (France). An additional instrumented line is used for environmental monitoring and for neutrino acoustic detection R&D. ANTARES is taking data with its full twelve line configuration since May 2008 and had been also doing so for more than a year before a five and ten line setups. First results obtained with the 5 line setup are presented. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, 8 figures, Proceeding for the Rencontres de Moriond 2009 EW session | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1373 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1373 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/229907 | |
| dc.subject | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Status and first results of the ANTARES neutrino telescope | |
| dc.type | text |