The AMANDA neutrino telescope:: principle of operation and first results

被引：212

作者：

Andres, E

Askebjer, P

Barwick, SW ^{[1
]}

Bay, R

Bergström, L

Biron, A

Booth, J

Bouchta, A

Carius, S

Carlson, M

Cowen, D

Dalberg, E

DeYoung, T

Ekström, P

Erlandson, B

Goobar, A

Gray, L

Hallgren, A

Halzen, F

Hardtke, R

Hart, S

He, Y

Heukenkamp, H

Hill, G

Hulth, PO

Hundertmark, S

Jacobsen, J

Jones, A

Kandhadai, V

Karle, A

Koci, B

Lindahl, P

Liubarsky, I

Leuthold, M

Lowder, DM

Marciniewski, P

Mikolajski, T

Miller, T

Miocinovic, P

Mock, P

Morse, R

Niessen, P

de los Heros, CP

Porrata, R

Potter, D

Price, PB

Przybylski, G

Richards, A

Richter, S

Romenesko, P

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717 USA

[2] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[3] DESY, Zeuthen, Germany

[4] Kalmar Univ, Kalmar, Sweden

[5] Stockholm Univ, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[6] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[7] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

[8] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[9] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[10] Univ Uppsala, S-75105 Uppsala, Sweden

来源：

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2000年 / 13卷 / 01期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1016/S0927-6505(99)00092-4

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

AMANDA is a high-energy neutrino telescope presently under construction at the geographical South Pole. In the Antarctic summer 1995/96, an array of 80 optical modules (OMs) arranged on 4 strings (AMANDA-B4) was deployed at depths between 1.5 and 2 km. In this paper we describe the design and performance of the AMANDA-B4 prototype, based on data collected between February and November 1996. Monte Carlo simulations of the detector response to down-going atmospheric muon tracks show that the global behavior of the detector is understood. We describe the data analysis method and present first results on atmospheric muon reconstruction and separation of neutrino candidates. The AMANDA array was upgraded with 216 OMs on 6 new strings in 1996/97 (AMANDA-B10), and 122 additional OMs on 3 strings in 1997/98. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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