4–7 Sept 2018
Roma Tre University
Europe/Rome timezone

Baikal-GVD: first results and prospects

6 Sept 2018, 12:00
30m
Roma Tre University

Roma Tre University

Speaker

Dr Olga Suvorova (INR RAS)

Description

Next generation cubic kilometer scale neutrino telescope Baikal-GVD is currently under construction in Lake Baikal. The detector is specially designed for search of high energies neutrinos whose sources are not yet reliably identified. Since April 2018 the telescope has been successfully operated in complex of three functionally independent clusters i.e. sub-arrays of optical modules (OMs) where now are hosted 864 OMs on 24 vertical strings. Each cluster is connected to shore by individual electro-optical cables. The effective volume of the detector for neutrino initiated cascades of relativistic particles with energy above 100 TeV has been increased up to about 0.15 km^3. Preliminary results obtained with data recorded in 2016 and 2017 are discussed.

Primary author

Dr Olga Suvorova (INR RAS)

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