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Recent Results from AMANDA

Name: Recent Results from AMANDA
Start: 2001-10-01T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2001-10-01T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Christopher Wiebusch (CERN-EP)

Monday 1 Oct 2001, 17:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Description

The main aim of the AMANDA-Experiment at the South Pole is the detection of High Energy (> TeV) Neutrinos of galactic or extra-galactic origin. For this reason large photomultipliers, mounted in pressure spheres, are deployed into the deep (> 1.5km) Antarctic glacier. These photomultipliers detect Cherenkov light emitted by charged secondary particles, which are produced in neutrino interactions inside or close to the detector. The talk highlights the detection of high energy atmospheric neutrinos, the search for extraterrestrial neutrinos, neutrinos from WIMP annihilation in the centre of the earth and relativistic magnetic monopoles. These results were obtained with the first stage detector AMANDA-B consisting of 302 PMs in 1997. The status of the currently operating AMANDA-II detector (680 PMs) and an outlook on the ICECUBE project are given. The ICECUBE project aims to instrument a volume of 1km_ deep ice with about 5000 phototubes.

Organiser(s): Ariane Frey / EP Division

Note: * Tea & coffee will be served at 16.45 hrs.