Speaker
Mr
David Calvo
(IFIC)
Description
The KM3NeT collaboration aims at the construction of a multi-km3 high-energy
neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea consisting of a matrix of pressure
resistant glass spheres holding a set (31) of small area photomultipliers. ]The
main goal of the telescope is to observe cosmic neutrinos through the Cerenkov
light induced in sea water by charged particles produced in neutrino interactions
with the surrounding medium. A relative time calibration between
photomultipliers of the order of 1 ns is required to achieve an optimal
performance. Due to the high volume to be covered by KM3NeT, a cost reduction
of the different system is a priority in order to reduce the global price of the
detector. To this end a very low price calibration device, the so called
Nanobeacon, has been designed and developed. At the moment one of such
devices has already been successfully integrated at the KM3NeT PPM DOM and
eight of them in the KM3NeT tower. In this article this device is presented
Primary author
Mr
David Calvo
(IFIC)
Co-author
Mr
Diego Real
(IFIC)
