Speaker
Description
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment will be located in the Cascadia Basin off the coast of Victoria, BC. This new experiment is a water-based Cherenkov neutrino telescope that will be rolled out in 3 stages to ultimately cover a cubic kilometer of deep-ocean water. The goal of this experiment is to capture ultra-high-energy astrophysical neutrinos and identify and collect data of bioluminescent organisms. Digital optical modules will populate moored lines anchored on Ocean Network Canada's deep-sea infrastructure. The detector will require a firmware-level trigger and data acquisition system for physics and bioluminescent events, as well as a sophisticated on-shore system to further remove background and cluster event signatures. The first line will be deployed in the Fall of 2025, followed by a single cluster deployment (P-ONE-Demonstrator), and then the full array (P-ONE). This talk will give an overview of the pathfinder mission, STRAW-b, the current status of the first string, and an outlook to the Demonstrator and Array.
