ANTARES, Physics potential, progress and status
نویسنده
چکیده
Observational neutrino astronomy can bring information also on particle physics that can not be obtained in other ways. In general this concerns processes at extreme energy and distance scales. Particularly of interest are cosmic accelerators, GUT phase transition remnants and dark matter annihilation. After four years of R&D the ANTARES Collaboration begins the actual construction of a neutrino telescope to be deployed at 2400 m depth near Toulon in the Mediterranean sea. The telescope will be particularly sensitive to high-energy upward-going neutrinos. The physics case, measurements, the structure of the detector and recent progress are discussed.
منابع مشابه
The ANTARES AMS Centre : A Status Report 665 progress to 9 - 10
The ANTARES accelerator mass spectrometry facility at Lucas Heights Research Laboratory is operational and AMS measurements of 14C, 26Al and Cl 36are being carried out routinely. Measurement of 129! recently commenced and capabilities for other long-lived radioisotopes such as 10Be are being established. The overall aim of the facility is to develop advanced programs in Quaternary science, glob...
متن کاملar X iv : a st ro - p h / 99 04 21 3 v 1 1 6 A pr 1 99 9 High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos Astronomy : The ANTARES Project ‡
Neutrinos may offer a unique opportunity to explore the far Universe at high energy. The ANTARES collaboration aims at building a large undersea neutrino detector able to observe astrophysical sources (AGNs, X-ray binary systems, ...) and to study particle physics topics (neutrino oscillation, ...). After a description of the research opportunities of such a detector, a status report of the exp...
متن کاملSearch for Exotic Physics with the ANTARES Detector
Besides the detection of high energy neutrinos, the ANTARES telescope offers an opportunity to improve sensitivity to exotic cosmological relics. In this article we discuss the sensitivity of the ANTARES detector to relativistic monopoles and slow nuclearites. Dedicated trigger algorithms and search strategies are being developed to search for them. The data filtering, background rejection sele...
متن کاملNews from Deep-sea
The Antares project aims to build a deep-sea Cherenkov Telescope for High Energy Neutrino Astronomy located in the Mediterranean Sea. The experiment, currently in the construction phase, has recently achieved an important milestone : the operation of a prototype line and of a line with monitoring instruments. These deployments allowed a thorough understanding of environmental parameters. http:/...
متن کاملar X iv : a st ro - p h / 07 03 44 2 v 1 1 6 M ar 2 00 7 Integration of Acoustic Neutrino Detection Methods into ANTARES
The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope [1] is a water Cherenkov detector currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. It is also designed to serve as a platform for investigations of the deep-sea environment. In this context, the ANTARES group at the University of Erlangen will integrate acoustic sensors within the infrastructure of the experiment. With this dedicated setup, tests of acoustic...
متن کامل