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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Published in:Astroparticle Physics
Main Authors: Andres, E., Askebjer, P., Cowen, D., Dalberg, E., DeYoung, T., Ekstrom, P., Erlandson, B., Goobar, A., Gray, L., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hardtke, R., Barwick, S. W., Hart, S., He, Y., Heukenkamp, H., Hill, G., Hulth, P. O., Hundertmark, S., Jacobsen, J., Jones, A., Kandhadai, V., Karle, A., Bay, R., Koci, B., Lindahl, P., Liubarsky, I., Leuthold, M., Lowder, D. M., Marciniewski, P., Mikolajski, T., Miller, T., Miocinovic, P., Mock, P., Bergstrom, L., Morse, R., Niessen, P., Perez de los Heros, C., Porrata, R., Potter, D., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G., Richards, A., Richter, S., Romenesko, P., Biron, A., Rubinstein, H., Schneider, E., Schmidt, T., Schwarz, R.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Science 2000
Subjects:
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/540
neutrino: cosmic radiation
Cherenkov counter: water
solids: water
calibration
statistical analysis
photomultiplier
AMANDA
bibliography
Antarctic
The Antarctic
South Pole
Antarc*
South pole
Online Access:https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/320794
https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PUBDB-2017-02071%22
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Summary: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.

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