Absolute angular calibration of a submarine km(3) neutrino telescope

作者：Anassontzis E; Liubarsky I^*; Psallidas A; Resvanis L K; Lenis D; Rapidis P A

来源：Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment , 2011, 626: S226-S230.

DOI：10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.266

• DELTA BERENIKE
• Neutrinos

A requirement for neutrino telescope is the ability to resolve point sources of neutrinos. In order to understand its resolving power a way to perform absolute angular calibration with muons is required. Muons produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere offer an abundant calibration source. By covering a surface vessel with 200 modules of 5 m(2) plastic scintillator a surface air shower array can be set up. Running this array in coincidence with a deep-sea km(3) size neutrino detector, where the coincidence is defined by the absolute clock timing stamp for each event, would allow absolute angular calibration to be performed. Monte Carlo results simulating the absolute angular calibration of the km3 size neutrino detector will be presented. Future work and direction will be discussed.

• 出版日期2011-1-11