Review on Neutrino Telescopes

• Main Author: T. Montaruli A
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.243.5563; http://arxiv.org/pdf/0901.2661v1.pdf

I will discuss the motivations for Neutrino Astronomy and its prospects given the current experimental scenario, which is the main focus of this paper. I will also go through the first results of the IceCube detector deep in the ice and of the ANTARES undersea telescope underlying complementary aspects, common and different challenges. It is an exciting time for this science since the first completed undersea detector is successfully taking data and the first cubic kilometer detector is going to be shortly more than half-way from its completion in Antarctica. 1. NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY: WHY? Answers to this question may sound rhetorical, nonetheless examples can be found in astronomy history that show that whenever new instruments are pointed to the sky unexpected discoveries are possible. So the discovery of some astrophysical neutrino source not seen with other messengers such as photons or protons is possible. In fact photons or nucleons may not be able to escape outside their sources or they may interact with