Progress toward a Km-scale neutrino detector in the deep ocean

• Main Author: Stokstad, R.G.
• Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Research.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Inst. for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Berkeley, CA (United States) 1997
• Subjects: Radiation Detectors; Seas; Underwater Facilities; Dumand Project; Neutrino Detection; 44 Instrumentation; Including Nuclear And Particle Detectors; Nestor; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc704601/

The best particles for observing distant objects are photons and neutrinos. Because of the neutrino`s weak interaction cross section, detectors suitable for astronomy must be very large and well shielded from cosmic rays. Eventually, a detector with the order of a square km of effective area will be...