Deep Antarctic ice as a neutrino telescope
Conference
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OSTI ID:33387
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics
At present scientists do not know of any cost-effective method to commission neutrino telescopes with effective area of order 1 km{sup 2}. The authors draw attention to the possibility of using large volumes of ice as a low-noise particle detector sensing the Cherenkov light from neutrino-induced electromagnetic showers. A program to map the optical clarity of polar ice at depths ranging from 300 meters to 1 kilometer is already underway. They also discuss the possibility of using of radio and acoustic methods to transform large volumes of ice into a neutrino telescope.
- OSTI ID:
- 33387
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9006267--; ISBN 981-02-0931-2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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