The AMANDA neutrino telescope: principle of operation and first results

AMANDA is a high-energy neutrino telescope presently under construction at the geographical South Pole. In the Antarctic summer 1995/96, an array of 80 optical modules (OMs) arranged on 4 strings (AMANDA-B4) was deployed at depths between 1.5 and 2 km. In this paper we describe the design and perfor...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Astroparticle physics 2000, Vol.13 (1), p.1-20
Hauptverfasser:	Andres, E., Askebjer, P., Barwick, S.W., Bay, R., Bergström, L., Biron, A., Booth, J., Bouchta, A., Carius, S., Carlson, M., Cowen, D., Dalberg, E., DeYoung, T., Ekström, P., Erlandson, B., Goobar, A., Gray, L., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hardtke, R., Hart, S., He, Y., Heukenkamp, H., Hill, G., Hulth, P.O., Hundertmark, S., Jacobsen, J., Jones, A., Kandhadai, V., Karle, A., Koci, B., Lindahl, P., Liubarsky, I., Leuthold, M., Lowder, D.M., Marciniewski, P., Mikolajski, T., Miller, T., Miocinovic, P., Mock, P., Morse, R., Niessen, P., Pérez de los Heros, C., Porrata, R., Potter, D., Price, P.B., Przybylski, G., Richards, A., Richter, S., Romenesko, P., Rubinstein, H., Schneider, E., Schmidt, T., Schwarz, R., Solarz, M., Spiczak, G.M., Spiering, C., Streicher, O., Sun, Q, Thollander, L., Thon, T., Tilav, S., Walck, C., Wiebusch, C., Wischnewski, R., Woschnagg, K., Yodh, G.
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Zusammenfassung:	AMANDA is a high-energy neutrino telescope presently under construction at the geographical South Pole. In the Antarctic summer 1995/96, an array of 80 optical modules (OMs) arranged on 4 strings (AMANDA-B4) was deployed at depths between 1.5 and 2 km. In this paper we describe the design and performance of the AMANDA-B4 prototype, based on data collected between February and November 1996. Monte Carlo simulations of the detector response to down-going atmospheric muon tracks show that the global behavior of the detector is understood. We describe the data analysis method and present first results on atmospheric muon reconstruction and separation of neutrino candidates. The AMANDA array was upgraded with 216 OMs on 6 new strings in 1996/97 (AMANDA-B10), and 122 additional OMs on 3 strings in 1997/98.
ISSN:	0927-6505 1873-2852 1873-2852
DOI:	10.1016/S0927-6505(99)00092-4