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Title | ||
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Development of a New Laser Beacon for Time Calibration in the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope |
Abstract | ||
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The ANTARES collaboration has built a deep sea neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea consisting of a matrix of pressure resistant glass spheres holding large area photomultipliers. The aim of the telescope is to observe cosmic neutrinos through the Cerenkov light induced in sea water by charged particles produced in neutrino interactions with the surrounding medium. A relative time calibration between photomultipliers of the order of 1 ns is required to achieve an optimal performance. To this end, several time calibration subsystems have been developed for the whole telescope. In this article, the design, tests and integration of the last Laser Beacon model, developed to measure and monitor the relative time offsets between photomultipliers, are described. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1109/MASS.2011.108 | MASS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Cherenkov radiation,astronomical telescopes,cosmic ray apparatus,cosmic ray neutrinos,neutrino detection,neutrino interactions,photomultipliers,time measurement,ANTARES Neutrino Telescope,Cerenkov light,Mediterranean Sea,charged particles,cosmic neutrinos,deep sea neutrino telescope,neutrino interactions,new Laser Beacon,photomultipliers,pressure resistant glass spheres,sea water,time calibration subsystem,Deep Sea Instrumentation,Laser Beacon.,Neutrino Telescope,Time Calibration Device | Telescope,COSMIC cancer database,Neutrino detector,Computer science,Neutrino,Optics,Cherenkov radiation,Photomultiplier,Calibration,Photodiode,Distributed computing | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umberto Emanuele | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Diego Real | 2 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Fernando Urbano | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Juan de Dios Zornoza | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Juan Zuniga | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |