KM3NeT
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When completed, KM3NeT will have a total instrumented volume of several cubic kilometres distributed over three locations in the Mediterranean: KM3NeT-Fr (offshore Toulon, France), KM3NeT-It (offshore Portopalo di Capo Passero, Sicily, Italy) and KM3NeT-Gr (offshore Pylos, Peloponnese, Greece). The KM3NeT project continues the work done for the neutrino telescope ANTARES operated offshore the coast of France between 2008 and 2022.
Using KM3NeT, scientists search for neutrinos from distant astrophysical sources like supernova remnants, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae or colliding stars. The telescope is a powerful tool in the search for dark matter in the universe. Arrays of thousands of optical sensor modules detect the faint Cherenkov light in the deep sea from charged particles originating from collisions of the neutrinos and the water or rock in the vicinity of the detector. The position and direction of the optical modules and the time of arrival of the light on the photomultipliers inside is recorded with high precision. The trajectories of particles are reconstructed from these measurements. The research infrastructure also houses instrumentation for other sciences like marine biology, oceanography and geophysics for long-term and online monitoring of the deep-sea environment and the sea bottom at depths of several kilometres.
The KM3NeT 2.0 project is realising two large detectors, ARCA at KM3NeT-It and ORCA at KM3NeT-Fr. The ARCA detector is the cubic kilometre sized telescope searching for distant neutrino-sources. The ORCA detector is optimised for the measurement of the properties of the neutrino itself. In that sense, ORCA is a neutrino particle physics detector. Details can be found in the Letter of Intent.
The oversight, governance and management of the implementation and operation of KM3NeT is conducted by an international collaboration. The KM3NeT community consists of about 250 scientists, along with engineers and technicians. Provided by Wikipedia
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61by Kulikovskiy, V.Contributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published 2016
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62by Kulikovskiy, V.Contributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published 2016
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65by Zaborov, DmitryContributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published in Particle Physics at the Silver Jubilee of Lomonosov Conferences (2017)
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66by Zaborov, DmitryContributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published in Particle Physics at the Silver Jubilee of Lomonosov Conferences (2017)
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67by Lastoria, Chiara FilomenaContributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published in Proceedings of Neutrino Oscillation Workshop — PoS(NOW2022) (2022)
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68by Lastoria, Chiara FilomenaContributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published in Proceedings of Neutrino Oscillation Workshop — PoS(NOW2022) (2022)
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69by Lastoria, Chiara FilomenaContributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published in Proceedings of XVIII International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics — PoS(TAUP2023) (2023)
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70by Lastoria, Chiara FilomenaContributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published in Proceedings of XVIII International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics — PoS(TAUP2023) (2023)
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71by Biagi, Simone, Coniglione, Rosa, Hofestädt, Jannik, Kulikovskiy, Vladimir, Lincetto, Massimiliano, Melis, Karel, Samtleben, DorotheaContributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published in Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019) (2019)
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72by Biagi, Simone, Coniglione, Rosa, Hofestädt, Jannik, Kulikovskiy, Vladimir, Lincetto, Massimiliano, Melis, Karel, Samtleben, DorotheaContributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published in Physics Letters B (2019)
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77by Pestel, Valentin, Nauta, Lodewijk, Aly, ZinebContributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published in Proceedings of The 22nd International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators — PoS(NuFact2021) (2021)
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78by Pestel, Valentin, Nauta, Lodewijk, Aly, ZinebContributors: “...KM3NeT...”
Published in Proceedings of The 22nd International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators — PoS(NuFact2021) (2021)
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79by Brunner, JürgenContributors: “...KM3Net...”
Published in Proceedings of XVII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes — PoS(NEUTEL2017) (2017)
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80by Brunner, JürgenContributors: “...KM3Net...”
Published in Proceedings of XVII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes — PoS(NEUTEL2017) (2017)
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