Conveners
Hardware and Software developments
- Tommaso Chiarusi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
The KM3NeT experiment is a neutrino telescope which makes use of photomultiplier tubes to detect the Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged particles.
The first interaction of this light with the detector occurs at the photocathodes of the photomultiplier tubes, is then of primary importance to have the most complete characterization of these elements.
An improved version of the former...
Presenter: Immacolata Carmen Rea (INFN) on behalf of KM3NeT Collaboration
Abtract:
For the first time in neutrino telescopes, the optical module of KM3NeT has 31 small photomultipliers instead of the traditional one large-dimension photomultiplier, as in other neutrino telescopes. Also, the size of the photocathode area in the module is unprecedented.
It is about the same as three...
In this contribution, we present the DAQ system of the KM3NeT neutrino telescopes, ARCA, and ORCA, already operating while under construction, at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
The system has to deal with a hardware-triggerless streaming readout of the optical modules in the telescopes. The throughput ranges from 20 Gbps up to hundreds of Gbps, scaling with the size of the detectors....
The neutrino telescopes of KM3NeT are experiencing an exciting phase of quick growth, and will scale up the number of detection units of the current configuration by a factor between 10 and 25 in the coming years. In addition, the telescopes are becoming less homogeneous with new versions of optical modules running new versions of firmware and new instrumentation for calibration introduced in...
