A technique for measuring the sea water optical parameters with a dedicated laser beam and a multi-PMT optical module

Journal Article · Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2014 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902788· OSTI ID:22390615

Tsirigotis, A.; Tzamarias, S. ^[1]; Manthos, I. ^[2]

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1. Hellenic Open University, Patras (Greece)
2. University of the Aegean, Chios (Greece)

The KM3NeT research infrastructure will be a deep sea multidisciplinary observatory in the Mediterranean Sea housing a neutrino telescope. Accurate knowledge of the optical properties of the sea water is important for the performance evaluation of the telescope. In this work we describe a technique for the evaluation of the parameters describing the scattering characteristics of the sea water using one multi-PMT optical module that detects scattered optical photons which are emitted from a laser. Our results show that we are able to determine these parameters with satisfying precision and are able to resolve the scattering length values with less than half a meter accuracy.

• OSTI ID: 22390615
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1630, Issue 1; Conference: VLVvT 13: 6. International Workshop on Very Large Volumte Neutrino Telescopes, Stockholm (Sweden), 5-7 Aug 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ACCURACY
LASERS
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
METERS
MULTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETERS
NEUTRINO DETECTION
NEUTRINOS
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
PHOTONS
SCATTERING LENGTHS
SEAWATER
TELESCOPE COUNTERS