NEUTEL-APC

High-energy cosmic neutrinos astronomy using a Mediterranean undersea telescope

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITE PARIS DIDEROT - PARIS 7    more  Organization address address: RUE THOMAS MANN 5 city: PARIS postcode: 75205 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Muriel Cognome: Maurice Email: send email Telefono: +33 1 57275548 Fax: +33 1 57275547
Nazionalità Coordinatore	France [FR]
Totale costo	45˙000 €
EC contributo	45˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-2-ERG
Funding Scheme	MC-ERG
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-06-01   -   2011-05-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITE PARIS DIDEROT - PARIS 7  Organization address address: RUE THOMAS MANN 5 city: PARIS postcode: 75205 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Muriel Cognome: Maurice Email: send email Telefono: +33 1 57275548 Fax: +33 1 57275547	FR (PARIS)	coordinator	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The observation of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, produced in distant astrophysical accelerators (and possibly by means of more exotic processes as well), has turned into one of the major challenges of today’s astroparticle physics, motivated by the possibility to open a new observational window on the distant Universe. The present project is a contribution to the experimental effort being carried by the european scientific community to build a large-scale undersea neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean. The efficiency of the data collection and analysis will be assessed through the study of the performance of the prototype instrument ANTARES (currently being deployed offshore near Toulon, France), in order to optimize the detection potential of the telescope, with a particular attention to neutrino point sources searches. The sensitivity of the telescope to ultraenergetic neutrinos, as well as to possible signatures of new physics, will also be investigated. A technical contribution will be dedicated to the characterization of the optical modules ageing in conditions of irradiation (e.g. bursts of bioluminescence) similar to those encountered in the deep sea. The interpretation of the first data on the basis of up-to-date astrophysical and cosmological models will provide important benchmarks for the subsequent building of a cubic-kilometer-sized detector in the Mediterranean, now in design study in the KM3Net collaboration.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

EU-funded researchers are providing invaluable technical support of a new deep-sea neutrino detector, including evaluation of response characteristics of detector elements as well as software for data monitoring and analyses.