Aperitivo scientifico: The KM3NeT neutrino telescope: deployment of the first string and status of the project
by
DrTommaso Chiarusi(INFN-BO)
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Europe/Rome
Sala Seminari piano -1 (S6), vicino biblioteca astronomia (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
Sala Seminari piano -1 (S6), vicino biblioteca astronomia
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Viale Berti Pichat
Description
KM3NeT is a large distributed research infrastructure that comprises a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea with user ports for Earth and Sea sciences. It will be installed in two locations:
the KM3NeT-IT site, about 100 km from Portopalo di Capo Passero in Sicily, will host the KM3NeT/ARCA telescope, aiming at the discovery of high-energy neutrino sources; the KM3NeT-FR site, about 40 km from Toulon in France,
will host the KM3NeT/ORCA detector, for the study of the neutrino mass hierarchy. The layouts of ARCA and ORCA differ to optimally detect neutrinos in different ranges of neutrino energy.
The modular design of the telescopes allows for a progressive implementation and data taking even with an incomplete detector. The same scalable design is used for the Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems (TriDAS). In December 2015 the first detection unit of KM3NeT has been successfully deployed at the Italian site.
A general overview of the project and its present status will be given, together with details on the sea operation and the deployment. The TRiDAS design and its future development will be discussed.
