Jan 7 – 9, 2016
East-West Center (EWC)
Pacific/Honolulu timezone

KM3NeT - the next-generation neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea

Jan 8, 2016, 1:15 PM
45m
Pacific (East-West Center (EWC))

Pacific

East-West Center (EWC)

Hawaii Imin International Conference Center 1777 East-West Road
oral

Speaker

Prof. Uli Katz (ECAP / University Erlangen)

Description

Building on the pioneering success of ANTARES, the next-generation deep-sea neutrino telescope KM3NeT will be constructed in the Mediterranean Sea. It will comprise two installations, one for neutrino astronomy with high-energy cosmic neutronos and one concentrating on neutrino physics using oscillations of the lower-energy neutrinos created in cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere. The presentation will discuss the technical design of KM3NeT; show initial preliminary results of the first detector unit deployed in December 2015; highlight selected results from the sensitivity studies for a cubic-kilometre installation; and summarise the next steps and future plans.

Author

Prof. Uli Katz (ECAP / University Erlangen)

Presentation materials