The ANTARES demonstrator towards an undersea neutrino telescope

✍ Scribed by F. Feinstein

• Book ID: 104355619
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 328 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(98)00467-8

✦ Synopsis

The ANTARES demonstrator is intended to prove the feasibility of a large undersea high energy neutrino telescope aimed at the observation of galactic and extra-galactic sources. An array of photo-multiplier tubes (PMT) detects the Cherenkov light emitted in the sea water from the muons produced by the neutrinos in the surrounding medium. The demonstrator will consist of several elementary structures connected to the coast via a single optical cable. The mechanical structure organisation, the optical cable connection, the position monitoring and the data transmission schemes will be extrapolable to a km-scale telescope. The demonstrator with approximately 100 optical modules is planned be deployed in 1999 in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Toulon (France). ANTARES is also building autonomous systems in order to measure undersea optical parameters in view of the selection of a site for a km-scale telescope.