The AMANDA neutrino telescope

✍ Scribed by E.C. Andrés; P. Askebjer; S.W. Barwick; R.C. Bay; L. Bergström; A. Biron; J. Booth; O. Botner; A. Bouchta; S. Carius; M. Carlson; W. Chinowsky; D. Chirkin; J. Conrad; C.G.S. Costa; D. Cowen; E. Dalberg; T. DeYoung; J. Edsjö; P. Ekström; A. Goobar; L. Gray; A. Hallgren; F. Halzen; R. Hardtke; S. Hart; Y. He; C.P. de los Heros; G. Hill; P.O. Hulth; S. Hundertmark; J. Jacobsen; A. Jones; V. Kandhadai; A. Karle; J. Kim; H. Leich; M. Leuthold; P. Lindahl; I. Liubarsky; P. Loaiza; D. Lowder; P. Marciniewski; T.C. Miller; P. Miocinovic; P.C. Mock; R. Morse; M. Newcomer; P. Niessen; D. Nygren; R. Porrata; D. Potter; P.B. Price; G. Przybylski; W. Rhode; S. Richter; J. Rodriguez; P. Romenesko; D. Ross; H. Rubinstein; T. Schmidt; E. Schneider; R. Schwarz; U. Schwendicke; G. Smoot; M. Solarz; V. Sorin; C. Spiering; P. Steffen; R. Stokstad; O. Streicher; I. Taboada; T. Thon; S. Tilav; C. Walck; C.H. Wiebusch; R. Wischnewski; K. Woschnagg; W. Wu; G. Yodh; S. Young

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 745 KB
• Volume: 77
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(99)00469-7

✦ Synopsis

With an effective telescope area of order 104 m 2 for TeV neutrinos, a threshold near ,,,50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees per muon track, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged over 25 years ago. We describe early results on the calibration of natural deep ice as a particle detector as well as on AMANDA's performance as a neutrino telescope.