Results from the Amanda detector

• Main Authors: Olbrechts, Philip, Barwick, S. W., Gerhardt, L., Kuehn, K., Nam, J. W., Silvestri, A., Yodh, G., AMANDA Collaboration, .
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2004
• Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics; high-energy neutrinos; search; Antarctic; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8qt874z8

The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is a high-energy neutrino telescope based at the geographic South Pole. It is a lattice of photo-multiplier tubes buried deep in the polar ice, which is used as interaction and detection medium. The primary goal of this detector is the observation of astronomical sources of high-energy neutrinos. This paper shows the latest results of the search for a diffuse flux of extraterrestrial v(mu)s with energies between 10(11) eV and 10(18) eV, v(mu)s emitted from point sources and v(mu)s from dark matter annihilation in the Earth and the Sun. ∗ Presented at the Cracow Epiphany Conference on Astroparticle Physics, Cracow, Poland, January 8–11, 2004.