The KM3NeT infrastructure: Status and first results
Annarita Margiotta on behalf of the KM3NeT Collaboration
SciPost Phys. Proc. 13, 030 (2023) · published 29 September 2023
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.13.030
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21st International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions
Abstract
KM3NeT is a research infrastructure in construction under the Mediterranean Sea. It hosts two large volume neutrino Cherenkov telescopes: ARCA at a depth of 3500 m, located offshore Sicily, and ORCA, 2500 m under the sea level, offshore the southern French coast. The two detectors share the same detection principle and technology and the same data acquisition design, the only difference being the geometrical arrangement of the optical sensors. This allows to span a wide range of neutrino energy and cover a large scientific program: The study of neutrino properties, first of all neutrino mass ordering, the identification and study of high energy neutrino astrophysical sources, indirect dark matter searches and core collapse supernovae detection.
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research [CNRS]
- Conseil Régional, Île-de-France
- Consejería de Economía, Innovación, Ciencia y Empleo, Junta de Andalucía (through Organization: Consejería de Economía Innovación Ciencia y Empleo)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / German Research FoundationDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG]
- European Commission [EC]
- European Regional Development Fund [ERDF]
- General Secretariat for Research and Technology [GSRT]
- Generalitat Valenciana
- HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
- Institut Universitaire de France [IUF]
- Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) (through Organization: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare / National Institute for Nuclear Physics [INFN])
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
- Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca
- Narodowym Centrum Nauki
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek / Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research [NWO]
- “la Caixa” Foundation