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A measurement of the cosmic-ray muon flux with a module of the NESTOR neutrino telescope
G. Aggouras,E. G. Anassontzis,A. E. Ball,A. E. Ball,G. Bourlis,G. Bourlis,W. Chinowsky,E. Fahrun,E. Fahrun,G. Grammatikakis,G. Grammatikakis,C. Green,C. Green,P. Grieder,P. Grieder,P. Katrivanos,P. Koske,P. Koske,A. Leisos,A. Leisos,E. Markopoulos,P. Minkowsky,P. Minkowsky,D. Nygren,K. Papageorgiou,G. Przybylski,L. K. Resvanis,I. Siotis,J. Sopher,A. Staveris-Polikalas,V. Tsagli,A. Tsirigotis,A. Tsirigotis,V. A. Zhukov,V. A. Zhukov +34 more
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A module of the NESTOR underwater neutrino telescope was deployed at a depth of 3800 m in order to test the overall detector performance and particularly that of the data acquisition systems.About:
This article is published in Astroparticle Physics.The article was published on 2005-05-01. It has received 84 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Neutrino & Telescope.read more
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High-energy neutrinos in the context of multimessenger astrophysics
TL;DR: In this article, a review of high-energy neutrinos (E ν > 100 GeV ) with the main topics as follows are: • The production mechanism of high energy neutrino in astrophysical shocks.
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High-energy neutrinos in the context of multimessenger physics
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of high-energy neutrinos (E>100 GeV) with the main topics as follows are discussed: the connection between the observed photon spectra and charged cosmic rays is described and the source properties as they are known from photon observations and from charged Cosmic Rays are presented.
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IceCube: An Instrument for Neutrino Astronomy
Francis Halzen,S. R. Klein +1 more
TL;DR: The first such instrument, IceCube, is near completion and taking data as discussed by the authors, which transforms a cubic kilometer of deep and ultra-transparent Antarctic ice into a particle detector, and a total of 5,160 optical sensors are embedded into a gigaton of Antarctic ice to detect the Cherenkov light emitted by secondary particles produced when neutrinos interact with nuclei in the ice.
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Invited review article: IceCube: an instrument for neutrino astronomy.
Francis Halzen,S. R. Klein +1 more
TL;DR: The first such instrument, IceCube, is near completion and taking data as mentioned in this paper, which transforms a cubic kilometer of deep and ultra-transparent Antarctic ice into a particle detector, and a total of 5,160 optical sensors are embedded into a gigaton of Antarctic ice to detect the Cherenkov light emitted by secondary particles produced when neutrinos interact with nuclei in the ice.
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Opening a new window onto the universe with IceCube
Markus Ahlers,Francis Halzen +1 more
TL;DR: The IceCube project transformed a cubic kilometer of natural Antarctic ice at the geographic South Pole into a Cherenkov detector, which discovered a flux of cosmic neutrinos in the energy range from 10−TeV to 10−PeV, predominantly extragalactic in origin this paper.
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TL;DR: Title of program: MINUIT gating the shape of the function near the minimum to determine the errors, in this essentially statistical problem the Catalogue number: ACWH function involved is usually a chisquare or negative log-likeli
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Cosmic-ray muons in the deep ocean
J. Babson,Barry C. Barish,R. Becker-Szendy,H. Bradner,R. Cady,John Clem,Stephen T. Dye,J. A. Gaidos,Peter Gorham,Peter K.F. Grieder,M. Jaworski,Tadaichi Kitamura,W. R. Kropp,John G. Learned,S. Matsuno,R. H. March,K. Mitsui,D. O'Connor,Yasuo Ohashi,A. Okada,Vincent Z. Peterson,L. R. Price,Frederick Reines,A. Roberts,C. E. Roos,H. W. Sobel,V. J. Stenger,Michael S. Webster,Christine D. Wilson +28 more
TL;DR: A string of seven optical detectors deployed from a ship was used to detect the Cherenkov light from muons at ocean depths ranging from 2000 to 4000 m in intervals of {similar to}500 m.
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Operation and performance of the NESTOR test detector
G. Aggouras,E. G. Anassontzis,A.E. Ball,G. Bourlis,W. Chinowsky,E. Fahrun,G. Grammatikakis,C. Green,Peter K.F. Grieder,P. Katrivanos,P. Koske,A. Leisos,J. Ludvig,E. Markopoulos,P. Minkowsky,D. R. Nygren,Konstantinos Papageorgiou,Gerald Przybylski,L. K. Resvanis,I. Siotis,J. E. Sopher,T. Staveris,V. Tsagli,Apostolos Tsirigotis,V. A. Zhukov +24 more
TL;DR: NESTOR as discussed by the authors is a deep-sea neutrino telescope that is under construction in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Greece at a depth of about 4000m, where the detector was operated for more than 1 month and data was continuously transmitted to shore via an electro-optical cable laid on the sea floor.
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