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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 87: Neutrino physics 11

T 87.5: Talk

Thursday, March 7, 2024, 17:00–17:15, Geb. 30.22: Gaede-HS

Status of the KM3NeT experiment and contributions from ECAP — •Tamas Gal for the ANTARES-KM3NET-ERLANGEN collaboration — Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

The KM3NeT neutrino telescope is continuously growing at two detector sites. The ORCA detector designed to detect neutrinos with energies from a few GeV up to several tens of GeV located off the coast of France and the ARCA detector with a much larger instrumentation volume but the same technology optimised for the detection of high-energetic neutrino events above 100 GeV located off the shore of Sicily. Both detectors are installed in the deep seas of the Mediterranean. ORCA currently consists of more than 10000 photomultiplier tubes and already provides valuable data for roughly 1200 kt-years while ARCA operates with nearly 16000 photomultiplier tubes. Both detectors are continuously extended with additional detection units and presumably double their size by the end of 2024. We will report on the status of the KM3NeT experiments and the contributions from the ECAP team to these scientific endeavours.

Keywords: KM3NeT; ORCA; ARCA; neutrino; cherenkov