Freiburg 2008 – scientific programme

Parts | Days | Selection | Search | Downloads | Help

T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 79: Neutrinoastronomie III

T 79.4: Group Report

Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 17:35–17:55, KGI-HS 1221

Final physics results of the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope — •Andreas Groß for the IceCube collaboration — Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg

The AMANDA neutrino telescope situated at the geographic South Pole covers 677 Photo Multiplier Tubes (PMTs) which are located on 19 strings deployed in the Antarctic ice sheet mostly at a depth between 1500-2000 m. After its construction period between 1996 and 2000, AMANDA has been in operation until 2006 as stand-alone detector. During 2007, AMANDA has be fully integrated as a low energy core into the IceCube telescope being constructed at the same place. We will sumarize the results obtained by AMANDA like the neutrino energy spectrum up to 100 TeV and the best limits obtained on the neutrino flux from extraterestrial sources. These limits address the flux from single point-like candidate sources, from generic source classes as well as the diffuse flux from any direction in the northern sky.