Orateur
Mlle
Giada Carminati
(University and INFN Bologna)
Description
The ANTARES (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss enviromental RESearch) Collaboration constructed and deployed the world's largest operational underwater neutrino telescope, optimised for the detection of Cherenkov light produced by neutrino-induced muons. The detector has an effective area of the order of 0.1 square km and it is a first step towards a kilometric scale detector.
The detector consists of a three-dimensional array of 885 photomultiplier tubes, arranged in 12 lines anchored at a depth of 2475 m in the Mediterranean Sea, 40 km offshore from Toulon (France). An additional instrumented line is used for environmental monitoring and for acoustic neutrino detection R&D.
ANTARES is taking data with its full twelve-line configuration since May 2008 and had been also doing so for more than a year before a five and ten-line setups.
The detector performance will be discussed.
First results obtained for the study of cosmic ray muons and atmospheric neutrinos will be presented.
Auteur principal
Mlle
Giada Carminati
(University and INFN Bologna)
