Speaker
Description
The KM3NeT Collaboration is incrementally building two underwater Cherenkov neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. Both telescopes share the same technology for neutrino detection, by studying Cherenkov radiation from secondary charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. Photomultipliers are a common choice for the detection of Cherenkov radiation, but the hostile underwater environment, affected by sea currents and bioluminescence demands innovative solutions in KM3NeT.
The distinctive technological features of KM3NeT will be discussed, such as its sub-nanosecond timing accuracy and the few-centimetre accurate acoustic positioning of the detector elements. This results in a neutrino pointing accuracy of the order of 0.1° at very high neutrino energies for track-like events. The KM3NeT design is modular and allows for data taking with the telescope still in the construction stage. Early technical and scientific results are enticing. In particular, KM3NeT recently discovered a neutrino of unprecedented energy from outer space.
The speaker will cover KM3NeT telescope design and operation, as well as readout techniques, time synchronization, data flow and event reconstruction, highlighting both technical and scientific aspects.
