Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics

Session

High Energy Neutrinos

26 May 2011, 11:30

Rettorato, University Roma TRE, Roma, Italy

93. Status and Recent Results from the IceCube km^3 Neutrino Detector

Prof. Greg Sullivan (University Of Maryland)

26/05/2011, 11:30

The IceCube neutrino detector has recently completed construction with the deployment of the full IceTop air shower array and 5160 optical sensors instrumenting 1 km^3 of deep ice at the Antarctic South Pole station. IceCube is the world’s largest neutrino detector and has achieved a sensitivity that represents a new era in the search for neutrinos of astrophysical origin. In addition to...

44. Status and recent results of the Antares Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope

Heide Costantini (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université)

26/05/2011, 12:00

ANTARES is currently the largest operating neutrino telescope located in the northern hemisphere. Its main goal is to detect high energy neutrinos that are expected from cosmic ray acceleration sites. The construction of ANTARES was completed in 2008. It consists of 12 identical lines deployed at 2500 m depth offshore from Toulon. Data are continuously taken by 885 photomultipliers that detect...

28. Status of BAIKAL-GVD Project

Prof. Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev (Institute for Nuclear Research)

26/05/2011, 12:30

Since 2006, the development of a km3-scale neutrino telescope - the Gigaton Volume Detector (GVD) in Lake Baikal - is the central goal of the Baikal collaboration. We present selected results obtained in the course of developing and testing key elements and systems of GVD. We furthermore describe configuration and technical design of GVD and discuss the expected physics sensitivity.

59. KM3NeT: an underwater multi‐km3 neutrino detector

Maurizio Spurio (University of Bologna and INFN)

26/05/2011, 12:50

The KM3NeT consortium has been carrying on R&D activities towards the construction of a multi-km^3 scale deep sea neutrino telescope to detect high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. It will have the Galactic Centre and most of the Galactic plane in its field of view, and it will complement the IceCube detector at the South Pole. Recently the Technical Design Report has been published. It...

76. Acoustic detection of ultra-high energetic neutrinos - a snap-shot -

Rolf Nahnhauer (scientific associate)

26/05/2011, 13:10

After a brief introduction of early ideas and activities in the field, signal expectations for different target materials and Thermo-acoustic Model approaches are discussed in relation to available data. Acoustic sensors and transmitters available from industry or developed in dedicated R&D programs are shortly characterized together with calibration methods for their applications. Recent...