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The ANTARES Deep-Sea Neutrino Telescope
Paschal Coyle (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille)
Seminar Room 3, 15:00
Until now most information we have of the Universe has been
conveyed by photons originating in electromagnetic processes.
Neutrino telescopes offer the possibility to see the Universe with
new ‘eyes’, allowing the study of the most powerful cosmic
accelerators via high-energy neutrinos generated in hadronic processes.
The ANTARES detector is the world’s first operating deep-sea
neutrino telescope. It is located at a depth of 2475m in the Mediterranean
Sea, close to Toulon, France. ANTARES comprises a three dimensional
array of 885 photomultipliers, designed to detect the Cherenkov light
produced by neutrino-induced muons passing close to the detector.
Since June 2008, the construction of the detector is complete.
In this seminar, various aspects of the detector construction are
described and the methods used to calibrate the detector are discussed.
Recent results obtained with the first data will be presented and in
particular searches for point-like cosmic neutrino sources will be detailed.
The ANTARES deep-sea infrastructure also provides synergetic
opportunities for research in oceanography, seismology and marine
sciences; some examples of these interdisciplinary activities will be highlighted.
Finally, some aspects of the planned next generation cubic-kilometre
neutrino telescope, KM3NET, will be discussed.
