Published August 30, 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

The neutrino telescope ANTARES

  • 1. Institute f. Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation)

Description

ANTARES is a deep-underwater neutrino telescope project. The planned apparatus consists of an array of photomultipliers, arranged in a lattice near the sea bed at a depth of 2400 m, to detect the Cherenkov light from muons produced by neutrino in the seawater and rock beneath. A good water transparency allows an angular resolution of few tenth of degree necessary for the search of point-like cosmic neutrino sources. Detection of the muon neutrino with energy below 50 GeV would provide sensitivity to neutrino oscillation phenomenon recently reported by Super-Kamiokande experiment

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Identifiers

Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
531
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 351-354
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
7. Mexican workshop on particles and fields
Dates
10-17 Nov 1999
Place
Merida, Yucatan (Mexico)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34072241
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CHERENKOV COUNTERS; COSMIC RAY DETECTION; DATA ACQUISITION; MUON DETECTION; NEUTRINO DETECTION; SENSITIVITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TELESCOPE COUNTERS; UNDERWATER
Descriptors DEC
CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; DETECTION; LEVELS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; RESOLUTION

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(c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.