ANTARES: The first undersea neutrino telescope


Abstract:

The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope was completed in May 2008 and is the first operational Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. The main purpose of the detector is to perform neutrino astronomy and the apparatus also offers facilities for marine and Earth sciences. This paper describes the design, the construction and the installation of the telescope in the deep sea, offshore from Toulon in France. An illustration of the detector performance is given. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Año de publicación:

2011

Keywords:

  • Submarine cable
  • Astroparticle
  • Neutrino
  • Marine technology
  • Photomultiplier tube
  • Deep sea detector
  • DWDM
  • Wet mateable connector
  • neutrino astronomy

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