Conveners
Parallel Session 5: Deep-sea and Deep-ice Technologies
- Patrick Lamare (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))
- riccardo papaleo (INFN)
Rosanna Cocimano
(INFN-LNS)
12/10/2011, 14:00
Deep-sea and deep-ice technologies
KM3NeT is a future deep-sea research infrastructure hosting a neutrino telescope with a volume of more than one cubic kilometre to be constructed in the Mediterranean Sea. In the context of the Preparatory Phase of KM3NeT, funded by the EU FP7 framework, the engineering design of the deep-sea telescope has been carried out and optimized to prepare rapid and efficient construction. This paper...
Dr
Claude Vallee
(CPPM)
12/10/2011, 14:25
Deep-sea and deep-ice technologies
Located next to the existing ANTARES neutrino telescope site, operational since 2008 offshore of Toulon at a depth of 2500m, MEUST (Mediterranean Eurocentre for Underwater Sciences and Technologies) will be a second generation submarine cabled infrastructure developed within the European projects KM3NeT and EMSO.
This new cabled facility will share its high-capacity with neutrino astronomers...
Steven Thumbeck
(Seacon Advanced Products, LLC)
12/10/2011, 14:50
Deep-sea and deep-ice technologies
Connectors for underwater use are an important component of many subsea systems, they make it easier to conduct onshore or offshore testing, easier to manage cabled assemblies and facilitate ease of installation during deployment. Underwater connectors come in a variety of types and configurations, a majority of the underwater connectors are either dry-mate or wet-mate having electrical or...
Gertjan Mul
(Nikhef (for the KM3NeT consortium))
12/10/2011, 15:15
Deep-sea and deep-ice technologies
KM3NeT is a research facility which will be built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The facility will host a neutrino telescope with several hundreds of detection units - vertical mechanical structures to which the optical sensors modules of the telescope are attached. A data cable will run the full length of the structure, which is almost one kilometre. In order to allow a novel compact...
Dr
Emanuele Leonora
(INFN, section of Catania)
12/10/2011, 15:40
Deep-sea and deep-ice technologies
The NEMO collaboration has undertaken a Phase-2 project, which aims at the realization and installation of a new infrastructure at the deep-sea site of Capo Passero at 3500 m depth. To this aim, a fully equipped 8-storey tower hosting two Optical Modules (OMs) at each end (four OMs per storey) is under construction. Following a well established procedure, the assembly of the 32 OMs is under...
