Results from the AMANDA experiment

• Main Author: Silvestri, Andrea
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2007
• Subjects: neutrino detector; neutrino astronomy; point sources; diffuse sources; ultra high energy neutrinos; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4sc4h4jb

The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) has been taking data since 2000 and its data acquisition system was upgraded in January 2003 to read out the complete digitized waveforms from the buried Photomultipliers (PMTs) using Transient Waveform Recorders (TWR). This system currently runs in parallel with the standard AMANDA data acquisition system. Once AMANDA is incorporated into the 1 km(3) detector IceCube, only the TWR system will be kept. We report results from a first atmospheric neutrino analysis on data collected in 2003 with TWR. Good agreement in event rate and angular distribution verify the performance of the TWR system. A search of the northern hemisphere for localized event clusters shows no statistically significant excess, thus a flux limit is calculated, which is in full agreement with previous results based on the standard AMANDA data acquistion system. We also updated the status of a search for diffusely distributed neutrinos with ultra high energy (UHE) using data collected by the TWR system.