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Oct 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992en.....23..167g&link_type=abstract

Europhys. News, Vol. 23, No. 9, p. 167 - 170

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Deep Underwater Muon and Neutrino Detector (DUMAND) is a completely new concept, based on the detection of Čerenkov radiation produced by relativistic muons particles as they move through a dielectric medium (the ocean water) faster than the phase velocity of light in the medium. In enabling the construction of a detector system of a size capable of identifying sources of high-energy neutrinos with a reasonable hope of success, DUMAND opens the era of high-energy neutrino astronomy. It employs the ocean's water mass as a multi-purpose medium: as a shield against the unwanted cosmic-ray background, as a well-behaved absorber for particles and radiation, as a target for muon and neutrino interactions, as a Čerenkov radiator for charged particles, and as a dark room to prevent light from interfering with faint Čerenkov radiation.

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