Published October 11, 2013
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Journal article
Evaluation of triggering schemes for KM3NeT
Creators
- 1. Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen (Germany)
Description
The future neutrino telescope KM3NeT, to be built in the Mediterranean Sea, will be the largest of its kind. It will include nearly two hundred thousand photomultiplier tubes (PMT) mounted in multi-PMT digital optical modules (DOM). The dominant source of the PMT signals is decays of 40K and marine fauna bioluminescence. Selection of neutrino and muon events from this continuous optical background signals requires the implementation of fast and efficient triggers. Various schemes for the filtering of background data and the selection of neutrino and muon events were evaluated for the KM3NeT telescope using Monte Carlo simulations
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.12.075Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2012.12.075;
- PII
- S0168-9002(12)01612-9;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 725
- Journal Page Range
- p. 122-125
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
Conference
- Title
- 5. international workshop on very large volume neutrino telescopes, the future of high-energy neutrino astronomy
- Acronym
- VLVnuT 11
- Dates
- 12-14 Oct 2011
- Place
- Erlangen (Germany)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45048127
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHERENKOV COUNTERS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; MUONS; NEUTRINO DETECTION; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POTASSIUM 40; SIGNALS; TELESCOPE COUNTERS
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CALCULATION METHODS; COSMIC RADIATION; DETECTION; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EMISSION; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LEPTONS; LIGHT NUCLEI; LUMINESCENCE; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NANOSECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NEUTRINOS; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PHOTON EMISSION; PHOTOTUBES; POTASSIUM ISOTOPES; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEAS; SIMULATION; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE WATERS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.