KM3NeT
KM3NeT (Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope) is a new generation neutrino telescopes. These neutrino telescopes are composed of a series of arrays of thousands of optical sensors that will detect the faint light in the deep sea from charged particles originating from collisions of the neutrinos and the Earth. Earlier generations of this experiments such as Antares and IceCube have already been shut down.
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KM3NeT is being build at two different locations in the deep Mediterranean sea. In the ARCA telescope array, KM3NeT scientists will search for neutrinos from distant astrophysical sources such as supernovae, gamma ray bursters or colliding stars. The ORCA telescope is the instrument for KM3NeT scientists studying neutrino properties exploiting neutrinos generated in the Earth's atmosphere.
I am part of the KM3NeT Collaboration, I work in Valencia and I am part of the Valencia Experimental Group of Astroparticles. My work right now consists on doing data analysis searching for Dark Matter particles annihilating at the Galactic Center.
Detection Method
HOW THE EXPERIMENTAL
DISPOSITION WORKS
The way in which the optical modules work at KM3NeT can be a bit tricky. It differs from other experiments, such as Antares or IceCube. Come here and see how they actually work.