The AMANDA neutrino telescope

被引:6
作者
Andrés, EC [1 ]
Askebjer, P
Barwick, SW
Bay, RC
Bergström, L
Biron, A
Booth, J
Botner, O
Bouchta, A
Carius, S
Carlson, M
Chinowsky, W
Chirkin, D
Conrad, J
Costa, CGS
Cowen, D
Dalberg, E
DeYoung, T
Edsjö, J
Ekström, P
Goobar, A
Gray, L
Hallgren, A
Halzen, F
Hardtke, R
Hart, S
He, Y
de los Heros, CP
Hill, G
Hulth, PO
Hundertmark, S
Jacobsen, J
Jones, A
Kandhadai, V
Karle, A
Kim, J
Leich, H
Leuthold, M
Lindahl, P
Liubarsky, I
Loaiza, P
Lowder, D
Marciniewski, P
Miller, TC
Miocinovic, P
Mock, PC
Morse, R
Newcomer, M
Niessen, P
Nygren, D
机构
[1] Univ Stockholm, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717 USA
[4] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[5] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[6] Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden
[7] Kalmar Univ, Kalmar, Sweden
[8] DESY, Inst High Energy Phys, Hamburg, Germany
[9] Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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D O I
10.1016/S0920-5632(99)00469-7
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
With an effective telescope area of order 10(4) m(2) for TeV neutrinos, a threshold near similar to 50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees per muon track, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged over 25 years ago. We describe early results on the calibration of natural deep ice as a particle detector as well as on AMANDA's performance as a neutrino telescope.
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页码:474 / 485
页数:12
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