Neutrino Astronomy and the AMANDA South Pole Telescope

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Sep 2000

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NEW VISTAS IN ASTROPHYSICS. Proceedings of the International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics 20th Anniversary, 11th Course. He

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We introduce the multidisciplinary science associated with neutrino "telescopes". Cosmic accelerators are introduced with a discussion of the highest energy cosmic rays. We subsequently discuss the best motivated sources of cosmic neutrinos: supermassive black holes in active galaxies and gamma ray bursts. We discuss neutrino telescopes with emphasis on the South Pole AMANDA telescope. With an effective telescope area of order 104 m2 for TeV neutrinos, a threshold near ~50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2 degrees per muon track, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged over 25 years ago. We describe early results on the calibration of natural deep ice as a particle detector as well as on AMANDA'S performance as a neutrino telescope.

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