| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 216, 2019
8th International Conference on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2018)
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| Article Number | 02006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 3 | |
| Section | Experimental Data | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921602006 | |
| Published online | 24 September 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921602006
KM3NeT acoustic positioning and detection system
INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud
★ e-mail: sviola@lns.infn.it
Published online: 24 September 2019
In the Mediterranean Sea, the KM3NeT Collaboration is constructing a the deep-sea research infrastructure hosting next generation neutrino telescopes. In the KM3NeT telescopes the Cherenkov radiation induced by the secondary charged particles produced in the interaction of cosmic and atmospheric neutrinos within an effective volume between megaton and several cubic kilometers of water are detected by an array of thousands of photomultipliers. The capability of the telescope to determine the direction of secondary charged particles and to point back to the neutrino source is strongly connected to the accuracy on photomultipliers positions. In KM3NeT, the photomultiplier positions are continuously monitored by an acoustic positioning system, designed by the KM3NeT Collaboration to reach an accuracy of the photomultiplier positions better than 20 cm.
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