Time Calibration of the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

J.A. Aguilar; P. Kooijman

doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.12.004

Time Calibration of the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

J.A. Aguilar, P. Kooijman

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Abstract

The ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope comprises a three-dimensional array of photomultipliers to detect the Cherenkov light induced by upgoing relativistic charged particles originating from neutrino interactions in the vicinity of the detector. The large scattering length of light in the deep sea facilitates an angular resolution of a few tenths of a degree for neutrino energies exceeding 10 TeV. In order to achieve this optimal performance, the time calibration procedures should ensure a relative time calibration between the photomultipliers at the level of 1 ns. The methods developed to attain this level of precision are described

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	539-549
Number of pages	11
Journal	Astroparticle Physics
Volume	34
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.12.004
Publication status	Published - 2010

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Time calibration
Neutrino telescopes
ANTARES

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