Speaker
Description
The Pacific-Ocean Neutrino Explorer is a proposed multi-cubic kilometre
neutrino telescope to be located off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Two pathfinder missions, STRAW and STRAW-B, have been deployed to
the Cascadian Basin site, which uses existing infrastructure maintained by
Ocean Networks Canada (ONC). These missions were deployed in order to
characterise the site. The first mission, STRings for Absorption Length in
Water (STRAW) was deployed specifically to investigate the absorption and
scattering length, and qualify the site. This original architecture was not
designed to look for atmospheric muons, however their detection could be
possible. My research focuses on configuring STRAW to trigger on atmospheric
muons. This can serve as an experimental check on the muon rate
2.6 km underwater. In addition, it could potentially lay the groundwork for
a full scale neutrino trigger in the future P-ONE detector.
