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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| 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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| spelling | ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906203 2025-01-16T19:26:45+00:00 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 Antarctic South Pole The Antarctic |
| spellingShingle | Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences Andres, E. The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Principle of Operation and First Results |
| title | 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 |
| title_short | The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Principle of Operation and First Results |
| title_sort | amanda neutrino telescope: principle of operation and first results |
| topic | Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences |
| topic_facet | Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences |
| url | https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906203 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906203 |