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Status and First Results from the KM3NeT neutrino telescope
by Evangelia Drakopoulou on behalf of the KM3NeT Collaboration
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Evangelia Drakopoulou |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202411_00008v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | 2024-11-05 08:26 |
| Submitted by: | Drakopoulou, Evangelia |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | 22nd International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2024) |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Experimental |
Abstract
KM3NeT is a distributed research infrastructure under construction in abyssal sites of the Mediterranean Sea that hosts two underwater neutrino telescopes: ARCA, located off- shore Portopalo di Capo Passero in Italy and ORCA, located offshore Toulon in France. Both telescopes employ the same photon detection technology but are opitmised according to different physics cases. ARCA is targeted to the detection of neutrinos with energies in the TeV-PeV range coming from astrophysical sources, while ORCA aims at studying the atmospheric neutrino oscillations at energies of a few GeV. In this contribution, the status of ARCA and ORCA is presented and the results obtained using data taken with the first detection units are discussed.
Current status:
In refereeing