The AMANDA neutrino telescope

With an effective telescope area of order 10 4 m 2 for TeV neutrinos, a threshold near ∼50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees per muon track, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged over 25 years ago. We desc...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nuclear Physics B 1999, Vol.77 (1), p.474-485
Hauptverfasser:	Andrés, E.C., Askebjer, P., Barwick, S.W., Bay, R.C., Bergström, L., Biron, A., Booth, J., Botner, O., Bouchta, A., Carius, S., Carlson, M., Chinowsky, W., Chirkin, D., Conrad, J., Costa, C.G.S., Cowen, D., Dalberg, E., DeYoung, T., Edsjö, J., Ekström, P., Goobar, A., Gray, L., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hardtke, R., Hart, S., He, Y., de los Heros, C.P., Hill, G., Hulth, P.O., Hundertmark, S., Jacobsen, J., Jones, A., Kandhadai, V., Karle, A., Kim, J., Leich, H., Leuthold, M., Lindahl, P., Liubarsky, I., Loaiza, P., Lowder, D., Marciniewski, P., Miller, T.C., Miocinovic, P., Mock, P.C., Morse, R., Newcomer, M., Niessen, P., Nygren, D., Porrata, R., Potter, D., Price, P.B., Przybylski, G., Rhode, W., Richter, S., Rodriguez, J., Romenesko, P., Ross, D., Rubinstein, H., Schmidt, T., Schneider, E., Schwarz, R., Schwendicke, U., Smoot, G., Solarz, M., Sorin, V., Spiering, C., Steffen, P., Stokstad, R., Streicher, O., Taboada, I., Thon, T., Tilav, S., Walck, C., Wiebusch, C.H., Wischnewski, R., Woschnagg, K., Wu, W., Yodh, G., Young, S.
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Zusammenfassung:	With an effective telescope area of order 10 4 m 2 for TeV neutrinos, a threshold near ∼50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees per muon track, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged over 25 years ago. We describe early results on the calibration of natural deep ice as a particle detector as well as on AMANDA's performance as a neutrino telescope.
ISSN:	0920-5632 1873-3832 1873-3832
DOI:	10.1016/S0920-5632(99)00469-7