The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Principle of Operation and First Results

AMANDA is a high-energy neutrino telescope presently under construction at the geographical South Pole. In the Antarctic summer 1995/96, an array of 80 optical modules (OMs) arranged on 4 strings (AMANDA-B4) was deployed at depths between 1.5 and 2 km. In this paper we describe the design and perfor...

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Main Author: Andres, E.
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Published: arXiv 1999
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Antarctic
South Pole
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906203
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906203
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906203 2023-05-15T14:04:07+02:00 The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Principle of Operation and First Results Andres, E. 1999 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906203 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906203 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0927-6505(99)00092-4 Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 1999 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906203 https://doi.org/10.1016/s0927-6505(99)00092-4 2022-04-01T17:19:21Z AMANDA is a high-energy neutrino telescope presently under construction at the geographical South Pole. In the Antarctic summer 1995/96, an array of 80 optical modules (OMs) arranged on 4 strings (AMANDA-B4) was deployed at depths between 1.5 and 2 km. In this paper we describe the design and performance of the AMANDA-B4 prototype, based on data collected between February and November 1996. Monte Carlo simulations of the detector response to down-going atmospheric muon tracks show that the global behavior of the detector is understood. We describe the data analysis method and present first results on atmospheric muon reconstruction and separation of neutrino candidates. The AMANDA array was upgraded with 216 OMs on 6 new strings in 1996/97 (AMANDA-B10), and 122 additional OMs on 3 strings in 1997/98. : 36 pages, 23 figures, submitted to Astroparticle Physics Text Antarc* Antarctic South pole South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic South Pole The Antarctic
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The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Principle of Operation and First Results
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description AMANDA is a high-energy neutrino telescope presently under construction at the geographical South Pole. In the Antarctic summer 1995/96, an array of 80 optical modules (OMs) arranged on 4 strings (AMANDA-B4) was deployed at depths between 1.5 and 2 km. In this paper we describe the design and performance of the AMANDA-B4 prototype, based on data collected between February and November 1996. Monte Carlo simulations of the detector response to down-going atmospheric muon tracks show that the global behavior of the detector is understood. We describe the data analysis method and present first results on atmospheric muon reconstruction and separation of neutrino candidates. The AMANDA array was upgraded with 216 OMs on 6 new strings in 1996/97 (AMANDA-B10), and 122 additional OMs on 3 strings in 1997/98. : 36 pages, 23 figures, submitted to Astroparticle Physics
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title The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Principle of Operation and First Results
title_short The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Principle of Operation and First Results
title_full The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Principle of Operation and First Results
title_fullStr The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Principle of Operation and First Results
title_full_unstemmed The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Principle of Operation and First Results
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publishDate 1999
url https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906203
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906203
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