Authors
Silvia Adrián-Martínez, M Ageron, F Aharonian, S Aiello, A Albert, F Ameli, EG Anassontzis, GC Androulakis, M Anghinolfi, G Anton, S Anvar, M Ardid, T Avgitas, K Balasi, H Band, Giancarlo Barbarino, E Barbarito, F Barbato, B Baret, S Baron, J Barrios, A Belias, E Berbee, AM van den Berg, A Berkien, V Bertin, S Beurthey, V van Beveren, Nicolo' Beverini, S Biagi, A Biagioni, S Bianucci, M Billault, A Birbas, H Boer Rookhuizen, R Bormuth, V Bouché, B Bouhadef, G Bourlis, C Boutonnet, M Bouwhuis, Cristiano Bozza, R Bruijn, J Brunner, G Cacopardo, L Caillat, Massimo Calamai, D Calvo, A Capone, L Caramete, F Caruso, S Cecchini, A Ceres, R Cereseto, C Champion, F Château, T Chiarusi, B Christopoulou, M Circella, L Classen, R Cocimano, A Coleiro, S Colonges, R Coniglione, A Cosquer, M Costa, P Coyle, A Creusot, G Cuttone, C D’Amato, A D’Amico, G De Bonis, Gianfranca De Rosa, N Deniskina, J-J Destelle, C Distefano, Francesco Di Capua, C Donzaud, D Dornic, Q Dorosti-Hasankiadeh, E Drakopoulou, D Drouhin, L Drury, D Durand, T Eberl, D Elsaesser, A Enzenhöfer, P Fermani, LUIGI ANTONIO Fusco, D Gajanana, T Gal, S Galatà, Fabio Garufi, M Gebyehu, V Giordano, N Gizani, R Gracia Ruiz, K Graf, R Grasso, Giuseppe Grella, A Grmek, R Habel, H van Haren, T Heid, A Heijboer, E Heine, S Henry, JJ Hernández-Rey, B Herold, MA Hevinga, M van der Hoek, J Hofestädt, J Hogenbirk, C Hugon, J Hößl, M Imbesi, CW James, P Jansweijer, J Jochum, M de Jong, M Jongen, M Kadler, O Kalekin, A Kappes, E Kappos, U Katz, O Kavatsyuk, P Keller, G Kieft, E Koffeman, H Kok, P Kooijman, J Koopstra, A Korporaal, A Kouchner, I Kreykenbohm, V Kulikovskiy, R Lahmann, P Lamare, G Larosa, D Lattuada, H Le Provost, KP Leismüller, A Leisos, D Lenis, E Leonora, M Lindsey Clark, CD Llorens Alvarez, H Löhner, A Lonardo
Publication date
2016/2
Journal
The European Physical Journal C
Volume
76
Pages
1-12
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
A prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT deep-sea neutrino telescope has been installed at 3500m depth 80 km offshore the Italian coast. KM3NeT in its final configuration will contain several hundreds of detection units. Each detection unit is a mechanical structure anchored to the sea floor, held vertical by a submerged buoy and supporting optical modules for the detection of Cherenkov light emitted by charged secondary particles emerging from neutrino interactions. This prototype string implements three optical modules with 31 photomultiplier tubes each. These optical modules were developed by the KM3NeT Collaboration to enhance the detection capability of neutrino interactions. The prototype detection unit was operated since its deployment in May 2014 until its decommissioning in July 2015. Reconstruction of the particle trajectories from the data requires a nanosecond accuracy in the time calibration. A …
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