The Baikal-GVD neutrino telescope: current status and scientific potential

by Dr Dmitri Zaborov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

Tuesday 14 Sept 2021, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Athens

Baikal-GVD is a 1 km3 neutrino detector currently under construction in Lake Baikal, Russia. The detector uses 10-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to detect the Cherenkov light from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. The PMTs are arranged on vertical strings, with 36 PMTs per string. Currently the detector consists of 64 strings for a total instrumented volume of ~0.4 km3. Baikal-GVD is aimed to provide observations of the TeV-PeV neutrino sky with a sensitivity similar to that of IceCube and KM3NeT-ARCA, with a complementary field of view. We review the current status of the experiment and its scientific goals.

Videoconference via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86292431400

Baikal-GVD-seminar-202109.pdf

Dmitri_Zaborov.mp4