Conveners
Parallel Session 2: Mechanics, Deployment and Vessels
- Efstratios Anassontzis (University of Athens)
- Marco Circella (INFN Bari, Italy)
Description
Mechanics, Deployment and Vessels
Prof.
Efstratios Anassontzis
(University of Athens (GR)),
Marco Circella
(INFN Bari, Italy)
13/10/2011, 10:00
Mechanics, deployment and vessels
Marco Circella
(INFN Bari, Italy)
13/10/2011, 10:05
Mechanics, deployment and vessels
ANTARES is the first neutrino telescope ever built in deep sea. The apparatus is equipped with 885 Optical Modules arranged on 12 detection lines. The construction of the apparatus was completed in 2008. The Collaboration then launched a two-year maintenance campaign, during which three lines were recovered and reinstalled, after curing some initial functionality problems. This activity has...
Giorgio Cacopardo
(INFN- LNS)
13/10/2011, 10:25
Mechanics, deployment and vessels
The NEMO Collaboration, which is part of the KM3NeT consortium, is pursuing a wide prototyping campaign (NEMO Phase 2)
off the coast of Sicily. A summary of the mechanical developments performed in this project will be presented.
Edward Berbee
(Nikhef (for the KM3NeT consortium))
13/10/2011, 10:45
Mechanics, deployment and vessels
The future KM3NeT neutrino telescope will be built on the seabed of the Mediterranean Sea at a depth between three and five kilometers. The high ambient pressure, but also the fact that the detector is hardly accessible, put severe constraints on the mechanical design of the detection units of the telescope. A detection unit is a vertical structure which supports the optical sensors of the...
Els de Wolf
(Nikhef/University of Amsterdam)
13/10/2011, 11:05
Mechanics, deployment and vessels
KM3NeT is a future deep-sea research facility that will be built at depths between three and five kilometres in the Mediterranean Sea. The facility will host a neutrino telescope consisting of several hundreds of detection units - vertical mechanical structures that suspend the optical sensor modules of the telescope. During the design phase of the KM3NeT telescope, two mechanical designs for...
Calogero Sollima
(INFN-Pisa)
13/10/2011, 11:25
Mechanics, deployment and vessels
Within the KM3NeT project a quality management system was proposed that included a qualification process and a data base to store information on the design.
This paper highlights quality control procedures applicable to KM3NeT and describes the data base.
Mario Musumeci
(INFN)
13/10/2011, 11:45
Mechanics, deployment and vessels
The KM3NeT Consortium, aiming to design and prepare the deployment of a deep sea detector for high energy neutrino astronomy, is developing a Pre-Production Model of the Detection Unit (PPM-DU) of the future telescope.
A description of the mechanical structure of the PPM-DU, of the R&D activity that have brought to it and of the ongoing qualification process will be presented.
Dr
Frank Egloff
(Nautilus Marine Services GmbH)
13/10/2011, 12:05
Mechanics, deployment and vessels
