The optical module for the NESTOR neutrino telescope

Collaboration
2002
17 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 479 (2002) 439-455
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
NESTOR is a deep-sea water Cherenkov neutrino detector now under construction for deployment in the Mediterranean off Greece. Its key component is an optical module employing a photomultiplier tube with a 15 in. hemispherical photocathode in a transparent glass pressure housing. Extensive tests have been made on the sensitivity, uniformity, time resolution, noise rates and mechanical properties of the module: several test deployments have been made at sea.
  • Neutrino telescope
  • Cherenkov detector
  • Optical sensor
  • neutrino: cosmic radiation
  • Cherenkov counter: water
  • photomultiplier
  • time resolution
  • data acquisition
  • NESTOR