Speakers
Dr
Antonios Papaikonomou
(Hellenic Open University)Dr
Apostolos Tsirigotis
(Hellenic Open University)
Description
The KM3 Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) will be a deep-sea multidisciplinary observatory
in the Mediterranean Sea. The accurate knowledge of the optical properties of the sea
water is very important for the performance evaluation of the telescope. In this work
we describe a technique for the evaluation of the parameters describing the
scattering characteristics of the sea water using one Multi-PMT Optical Module that
detects scattered optical photons which are emitted from a laser. For each
photomultiplier, we compare the number of the detected photons and their arrival time
profile with expectations corresponding to certain values of the scattering
parameters. This comparison can provide an accurate estimation of the optical
scattering properties of the sea water. For this study the expectations (i.e. the
number of photons observed in each photomultiplier and their time distribution) are
estimated using the full photon tracking mode of the HOURS (Hellenic Open University
Reconstruction & Simulation) software package.
Primary authors
Dr
Antonios Leisos
(Hellenic Open University)
Dr
Antonios Papaikonomou
(Hellenic Open University)
Dr
Apostolos Tsirigotis
(Hellenic Open University)
Prof.
Spyros Tzamarias
(Hellenic Open University)
