Zhan Djilkibaev
(Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia)
6/22/07, 9:00 AM
We review the status of the Baikal Neutrino Telescope, which is operating on Lake Baikal since 1998 and has been upgraded to the 10 Mton detector NT200+ in 2005. We present selected physics results on searches for upward going neutrinos, relativistic magnetic monopoles and for very high energy neutrinos. We describe the strategy of creating a detector on the Gigaton (km3) scale at Lake Baikal....
Tyce DeYoung
(Pennsylvania State University, USA)
6/22/07, 9:25 AM
Construction of the IceCube neutrino telescope is now more than 25% complete, with 22 strings in the ice and 26 IceTop air shower stations deployed on the surface. We present initial results from data taken with 9 strings in 2006, as well as results from the AMANDA array, which has been incorporated into IceCube. We also discuss the scientific potential of IceCube as it amasses 1 km^3 yr of...
Emilio Migneco
(INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Italy)
6/22/07, 9:50 AM
The NEMO collaboration has conducted in the recent years an intense R&D activity directed at the realization of an underwater km3 detector for high energy neutrinos. The activities have addressed some key issues such as the search and characterization of an optimal deep sea site for the detector installation, the definition of the detector architecture, the design of the detector components...
John Carr
(Centre de Physique de Particules de Marseille, France)
6/22/07, 10:15 AM
Since January 2007 five complete detector lines of the ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope have been in successfully operation, making ANTARES the largest neutrino detector in the northern hemisphere. These lines, each housing 75 photomultipliers, are connected to the shore via an undersea cable from the site at a depth of 2470m and the town of La Seyne-sur-Mer in France. The data and long...
Els de Wolf
(NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
6/22/07, 10:40 AM
KM3NeT is a Design Study with the primary objective to develop a cost-effective design for a cubic-kilometre sized deep-sea infrastructure to be built in the Mediterranean Sea, housing a neutrino telescope with unprecedented neutrino flux sensitivity at TeV energies. The physics goals and design objectives of the future telescope and the status of the design study, which started in February...
Ina Sarcevic
(University of Arizona, USA)
6/22/07, 11:05 AM
Ultrahigh energy (UHE) astrophysical neutrinos that originate in interactions of cosmic rays with the microwave background radiation, or from astrophysical sources such as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs), provide a unique way of studying astrophysics as well as particle physics. I will discuss what we can learn from UHE cosmic neutrinos. I will show that the effect of...
