The BAIKAL Neutrino Telescope: Results and Plans 19 th ERCS, Florence, Italy,September 3 rd, 2004 Ralf Wischnewski DESY-Zeuthen

R.Wischnewski ECRS HE Neutrino Detection: Muons and “Cascades” O(km) long muon tracks direction determination by Cherenkov light timing  5-15 m - Good directionality by Cherenkov timing - Poor energy resolution Charged Current (CC)  Electromagnetic & hadronic cascades ~ 5 m - Good energy resolution - Bad pointing CC e  + Neutral Current

The case for “All flavor” detection (1) - Oscillation transfers the canonical e :  :  = 1: 2: 0 at source (e.g. from  +- decay) to e :  :  = 1: 1: 1 at earth  50 % of signal  are ‘lost’ !  Catch all flavours (2) Earth is opaque for ‘upward’ at E >> PeV. But:  regenerate via  -decay and pile up at transparency E-threshold, i.e. do not ‘disappear’.

The case for >1 Uw/Ice - Telescopes (1) Complete sky coverage Lake Baikal South Pole Sky coverage in Gal.Coordinates = galactic center South Pole (AMANDA) Lake Baikal (and Mediterranean...) Visibility: below local horizon - white = 100% visibility - black = „blind region“

The case for >1 Uw/Ice - Telescopes (1) Complete sky coverage Lake Baikal South Pole (2) Complementarity of detectors –Optical medium: scattering vs. no-scatt. –Effective volume: contained vs. external –Pattern recognition & filtering criteria

R.Wischnewski ECRS NT-200 design + history -Results: - Atm. Neutrinos, WIMPs, Monoples, - Cascades  AP neutrinos, muons -Physics upgrade to NT-200+ to be finished in April 2005 Outline

R.Wischnewski ECRS Collaboration Russia – Germany - Institute of Nuclear Research, Moscow - Moscow State University - DESY Zeuthen - Irkutsk State University - Nishni Novgorod State Technical University - State Marine Technical University, St.Petersburg - Kurchatov Institute, Moscow - JINR, Dubna ~45 authors

The Site 4 cables x 4km to shore. 1070m depth 3600 m 1366 m NT-200

Ice as a natural deployment platform Ice stable for 6-8 weeks/year: –Maintenance & upgrades –Test & installation of new equipment –Operation of surface detectors (EAS, acoustics,… ) Winches used for deployment operations 

R.Wischnewski ECRS The Ice Camp (4km offshore)

R.Wischnewski ECRS The NT-200 Telescope -8 strings: 72m height optical modules - pairwise coincidence  96 space points - calibration with N-lasers - timing ~ 1 nsec - Dyn. Range ~ 1000 pe Effective area: 1 TeV ~2000 m² Eff. shower volume: 10TeV ~0.2Mt Quasar PMT: d = 37cm Height x  = 70m x 40m, V geo =10 5 m 3 = 0.1Mton

R.Wischnewski ECRS Optical Module – Pair (Coincidence)

R.Wischnewski ECRS m long arms allow for separate String manipulation 8 Strings on a Heptagon frame d=40m N.B.: Flexiblity - additional (external) strings can be deployed independently (and re-positioned) at any place.

R.Wischnewski ECRS NT-36, April and retrieval one year later. Final deployment of the Heptagon …

Abs. Length: 22 ± 2 m Scatt. Length (geom) ~ m  cos  ~ In-situ measurements over many years 2001: Cross calibration with NEMO/ANTARES L att -device Baikal, nm Absorption cross section, m -1 Scattering cross section, m -1 FreshWater  no K40 BG Optical Properties

R.Wischnewski ECRS Baikal - History Since 1980 – Site tests and early R&D started 1989/90 - Proposal NT-200, start construction NT – NT-36 started (36 PMTs at 3 strings)  The First Underwater Array ever built  3-dimensional Muon reconstruction  Verify BG-suppression & check MC/Water/..  First 2 Neutrino Candidates NT-200 commissioned – NT-200 commissioned (192 PMTs at 8 strings)  Start full Physics program since 1998: Routine operation 4-string stage (1996) One of the first neutrino events recorded with the 1996 four-string version NT-96 of the Telescope

R.Wischnewski ECRS Photoelectrons Amplitude (Chan 12) Time difference (dt = t 52 -t 53 )  t, ns Atmospheric muons: Calibration Beam A i, t i atm.  Reconstructed  ’s : Cos(zenith) distribution vs. Corsika cos (  )

R.Wischnewski ECRS Selected Results - Low energy phenomena - Atmospheric neutrinos - Neutrino from WIMP annihilation - Search for exotic particles - Magnetic monopoles - High energy phenomena - Diffuse neutrino flux - Neutrinos from GRB - Prompt muons and neutrinos

R.Wischnewski ECRS Data samples NT : 502 livetime days (Apr.98-Feb.00) : 780 livetime days (Apr.98-Feb.01) ( this work ) : in progress - earlier results: for prototype NT-96,...

R.Wischnewski ECRS Atmospheric Muon-Neutrinos Skyplot (galactic coordinates)  ~ 3° BG dominated bin cos (  ) Thresh. ~ 15 GeV 3-dimensional track reconstruction high BG suppression  84 events in Soon to come: - a high statistics neutrino sample („looser criteria“) for Point-Source Search. - Muon-Neutrino GRB analysis

WIMP Neutrinos from the Center of the Earth  +   b + b  W + + W - C +  +  cos (  ) Detection area, m 2 Tailored Vertical Track Reconstruction (single string)  Effective Area > 10 3 m 2 (after all cuts)

WIMP Search Limit on excess neutrino induced upward muon flux 90% c.l. limits from the Earth ( 502 days NT-200 livetime, E  > 10 GeV ) osc. no osc. 502 days livetime NT-200 (98+99) MC: Bartol evts - experiment 36.6 evts - prediction w/o oscillations 29.7 evts - prediction w/ oscillations

R.Wischnewski ECRS Search for fast Monopoles (  Monopole limit (90% C.L.) 780 livedays Parker N hit distribution: MC  data N hit Monopole selection criteria: hit channel multiplicity: N hit > 35 ch, upward track:  (z i -z)(t i -t)/(  t  z ) > 0.45,  o Background : atmospheric muons N  monop   = n 2 (g/e) 2 N   = 8300 N   g = 137/2, n = 1.33 Bright light source: 8300 x muon

R.Wischnewski ECRS Search for Slow Massive Monopoles  (10 -5 <  -3  NT-200 – capable to detect massive bright objects (GUT-monopoles, nuclearites, Q-balls …): Monopole Trigger: N local >4 within dt=500  sec Selection: N ch >1 with N local >14 Magnetic monople Flux limit  cat         M+p M+e + (+  …),   ~10 5 Magnetic monopole visibility boundaries

Search for High Energy Cascades NT-200 is used to watch the volume below for cascades. Look for upward moving light fronts. Signal: isolated cascades from neutrino interactions Background : Bremsshowers from h.e. downward muons Final rejection of background by „energy cut“ (N hit )  („BG“) NT-200 large effective volume e cascades Allowed by excellent scatt  scatt =30-50m Radius, m

Physics topics: - HE cascades from e   - NC/CC  Diffuse astroph.flux  GRB correlated flux - HE atmospheric muons ( the „BG“ to ‘s )  Prompt   Exotic  -... Search for High Energy Cascades NT-200 is used to watch the volume below for cascades.  („BG“) NT-200 large effective volume

Hard spectra pile up in the “energy parameter” N hit    AE -  Shape of signal in N hit distribution (  Selecting HE Cascades  atm 2.5  cut Data + MC Showers along  

Diffuse Flux e, ,  Limit 90% C.L. Limit via W-RESONANCE production ( E = 6.3 PeV,  5.3 · cm 2 ) Ф e < 4.2 · (cm 2 · s · sr · GeV ) -1 (Baikal 2004) Ф e < 5.0 · (cm 2 · s · sr · GeV ) -1 (AMANDA 2004) The 90% C.L. “all flavour” Limit from NT-200 (780 days) on the DIFFUSE NEUTRINO FLUX Assuming e     = 1  1  1 at Earth ( 1  2  0 at source) + for a  =2 spectrum Ф ~ E -2 (10 TeV < E < 10 4 TeV) E 2 Ф < 1.0 ·10 -6 GeV cm -2 s -1 sr -1 (Baikal 2004) E 2 Ф < 0.86 ·10 -6 GeV cm -2 s -1 sr -1 (AMANDA-II 2004) V geo (NT-200) AMANDA II V eff > 1 Mton at 1 PeV Effective volume vs. E

Experimental limits + theoretical predictions Diffuse Flux Limits + Models Models already ruled out by the experiments SDSS - Stecker et al.92 SS - Stecker, Salamon96 SP - Szabo, Protheroe92 (Models/Exp. are rescaled for 3 flavours)  Telescopes attack Models agressively.

R.Wischnewski ECRS Search for ’s correlated with GRBs 1 PeV BATSE-GRBs vs. HE-Cascades event sample. April February 2000: N tot = 722 BATSE evts NT-200: CascadeCuts (N hit >10 & t min >-10 ns) & t BATSE -100 s < t < t BATSE +100 s Data consistent with expected  at -BG  90% C.L. differential flux limits GRB - Prospects: We expect better sensitivity for the muon event sample. Analysis in progress.

R.Wischnewski ECRS Prompt atmospheric ’s and muons BG source for neutrino telescopes Production - decays of short-lived particles (  D, …)      isotropic for E < 10 7 GeV Neutrinos -   e : cascades (CC, NC)  E -2.6, E<E b = GeV     E b 0.4 E -3, E>E b = GeV Muons: cascades (e + e -, brem, ph.-nucl.)     E -2.6 Predictions: ZHV - E.Zas, F.Halzen, R.Vazquez-93 RVS - O.Ryazhskaya, L.Volkova, O.Saavedra-02 QGSM, RQPM - E.Bugaev et al.-89 TIG - M.Thunman, G.Ingelman, P.Gondolo-96 GGV - G.Gelmini, P.Gondolo, G.Varieschi-02 (hep-ph/ ) Baikal

Any HE muon model spectrum can be tested by the selected HE Cascade event sample. Example: “Exotic Muons” as discussed in some talks at this meeting (curve “a” and “b”).  a detailed limit calculation for these “predictions” is in progress. The limit for E -2 spectrum shows we have rejection model power. Limits to HE Muon Flux Flux prediction and flux limits

Upgrade to NT Aim: Improve sensitivity to cascades with sparse instrumentation. 36 additional PMTs on 3 far ‘strings‘  4 times better sensitivity ! PeV 140 m Mton

NT Much improved cascade coordinates (+ energy ) reconstruction

NT NT as subunit for a Gton scale detector For High Energy Cascades: A single small string replacing the NT-200 central core reduces V eff less than x3 for E>100TeV.  Short strings as a subunit for a Gton scale detector 140 m

A future Gigaton (km3) Detector in Lake Baikal. Sparse instrumentation: 91 strings with 12 OM = 1308 OMs  effective volume for 100 TeV cascades ~ km³!  muon threshold between 10 and 100 TeV

NT-200+ Status 2004: - Two outer strings are installed common events taken during 364 h life time (0.017 Hz) - New cable to shore (4km underwater) - DAQ system redesigned - MBit-DSL shore connection: x100 bandwidth - Embedded Linux PC’s and Ethernet underwater (fast trigger Level 0 possible) - Remote Experiment Control from Moscow/ : - NT-200+ will be completed

R.Wischnewski ECRS NT-200+ DAQ-Upgrade, 3/2004 Linux and Ethernet “go underwater” for the new Baikal-DAQ: - 3 Baikal-spheres with first PCs ready for deployment (left) - Mounting the central trigger/DAQ underwater system (right)

R.Wischnewski ECRS Summary - The Baikal Telescope is successfully running since 10 years - strong in HE-diffuse search (cascades): “Mton-detector” - good GRB-sensitivity - relevant other results: Magnetic Monopoles, WIMPs, atm.  - complementary to AMANDA (sky, optical, pattern-reco, …) - aggressive upgrade to NT-200+ in 2005: improve the HE cascade sensitivity by also: ideas on a future Gigaton Volume Detector (km3)

R.Wischnewski ECRS Almost exactly like our HE-Gamma colleagues we eagerly wait for more sources to show up in our field of view … At least one per Telescope … BAIKAL will for a few years remain the largest (and only) Northern hemisphere Underwater (and only) Northern hemisphere Underwater Cerenkov Telescope. Cerenkov Telescope.

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R.Wischnewski ECRS Backup Slides...

WIMP Search Expectation for atmospheric neutrinos: Atm. neutrino induced muons (E th ~ 10 GeV) Atmosp. neutrinos (Bartol-96, SK-oscillation)

High energy cascade selection: (1)Upward light from below : t min = min(t i - t j ), j > i (for all strings in event) t min > -10 ns (2) High energy: N hit > 15 ch. Nb. of hit channels Selecting HE Cascades t min : data (N hit >40 ch.) t min : Data + MC (t min >-10 ns)

R.Wischnewski ECRS Event selection criteria High energy cascades - experiment - atm. muons background

R.Wischnewski ECRS Backup slides

R.Wischnewski ECRS Example of interaction between ANTARES,NEMO   Baikal  Verification of Lake Baikal Attenuation / Absorb. / Scatt. results  Cross-Calibration: AC9 (Antares/Nemo) vs. Burhan ASP15 (Baikal)  Agreement ! see: NIM A498 (2003) Baikal-NEMO Campaign March, 2001

R.Wischnewski ECRS Shore Station with OMs (April 1993)

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