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The KM3NeT infrastructure: status and first results
by A. Margiotta
Submission summary
| Submission information |
| Arxiv Link: |
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07370v4 (pdf)
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| Date submitted: |
2022-11-11 22:39 |
| Submitted by: |
Margiotta, Annarita |
| Submitted to: |
SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: |
21st International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2022) |
| Ontological classification |
| Academic field: |
Physics |
| Specialties: |
- Gravitation, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- High-Energy Physics - Experiment
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| Approach: |
Experimental |
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.
Current status:
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