Conveners
Acoustic Detection
- sean danaher (Northumbria Universiry)
Acoustic Detection
- R. Lahmann (-)
Acoustic Detection
- Rolf Nahnhauer (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen)
Dr
Kay Graf
(University of Erlangen)
20/06/2012, 09:00
Invited Talks
Invited Talk
The acoustic neutrino detection technique is a promising approach for future large-scale detectors with the aim of measuring the small expected flux of ultra-high energy cosmogenic neutrinos. This talk will focus on the application of the technique in water, based on site studies performed with different acoustic test arrays. Though the technique is intriguingly simple, challenges arise from...
Timo Karg
20/06/2012, 09:40
Acoustic Detection
Invited Talk
Acoustic neutrino detection is a promising technique to instrument the large volumes required to measure the small expected flux of ultra-high energy cosmogenic neutrinos. Using ice as detection medium allows for coincident detection of neutrino interactions with acoustic sensors, radio antennas and optical light sensors with the benefit of cross calibration possibilities or independent...
Alexander Enzenhöfer
(ANTARES)
20/06/2012, 10:20
Acoustic Detection
Specialised Talk
The use of acoustical sensors in combination with optical sensors within one sensor module is a promising alternative to the standard design of deep-sea neutrino telescopes with separate acoustical and optical devices. These so-called Opto-Acoustical Modules comprise at least one sensor of each type inside the same glass housing. In this combination it is possible to determine the module...
Ruth Hoffmann
(Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
20/06/2012, 10:40
Acoustic Detection
Specialised Talk
The IceMole, a combination of melting and drilling probe, which is able to move and steer through ice and take samples while doing so, can be used to install instruments in ice. An improved design of the prototype developed by the FH Aachen, the Eceladus Explorer, could be used to explore water filled cracks on the Saturn moon Enceladus some day. Before starting a space mission to Enceladus...
Rolf Nahnhauer
(DESY)
21/06/2012, 09:40
Acoustic Detection
Specialised Talk
The South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS) consists of four strings,
each instrumented with seven acoustic sensors and transmitters frozen
in the upper 500 m of IceCube holes. SPATS sensors have been extensively studied in the laboratory at changing temperatures and pressure in air, water and ice. It was however impossible to create conditions like in deep ice at the South Pole. We present...
Ms
Silvia Adrián-Martínez
(UPV)
21/06/2012, 10:00
Acoustic Detection
Specialised Talk
In situ acoustic calibration devices should play a very important role to assure the right performance of sensors and detectors for the acoustic detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos in underwater telescopes. Moreover, they provide evidences for the feasibility evaluation of the technique and for the efficiency determination of the entire detector. Following previous studies, relating with...
sean danaher
(N)
21/06/2012, 10:20
Acoustic Detection
Specialised Talk
The calibration and design of an eighth hydrophone linear array has been developed for the generation of emulated Ultra High Energy (UHE) neutrino-induced pulses. This acoustic array simulates the acoustic pulse created from a UHE neutrino interaction in water by generating a coherently emitted acoustic bipolar pulse. The calibrator is developed using signal processing methods using...
Dirk Heinen
(R)
21/06/2012, 10:40
Acoustic Detection
Specialised Talk
To investigate acoustic ice properties under laboratory conditions and to test the thermo-acoustic model, the Aachen Acoustic Laboratory (AAL) was founded as a part of the acoustic working group (SPATS) within the IceCube collaboration.
The AAL provides a test facility setup with a proper infrastructure to study acoustics and thermo-acoustics in a large volume of water and ice. The control...
Prof.
Nikolay Budnev
(Irkutsk State University)
21/06/2012, 11:30
Acoustic Detection
Overview Talk
We report the present status and perspectives of the feasibility study to detect cosmic neutrinos acoustically in Lake Baikal. The results of a background studies are presented. It was shown that most of the detected background neutrino-like pulses come from the lake surface. This fact has been used in project of an acoustic prototype detector that consists of compact modules with 4-channel...
Mr
Max Neff
(ECAP - Uni Erlangen)
21/06/2012, 11:55
Acoustic Detection
Specialised Talk
Acoustic neutrino detection is a promising approach for large-scale ultra-high energy neutrino detectors in water. In this contribution, a Monte Carlo simulation chain for acoustic neutrino detection devices in water will be presented. The simulation chain covers the generation of the acoustic pulse produced by a neutrino interaction and its propagation to the sensors within the detector....