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A High Energy Neutrino Astronomy from infancy to maturity LAUNCH Meeting Heidelberg Christian Spiering DESY A
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A High Energy Neutrino Astronomy from infancy to maturity A technological
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A The idea A Moisej Markov Bruno Pontecorvo M.Markov, 1960 : We propose to install detectors deep in a lake or in the sea and to determine the direction of charged particles with the help of Cherenkov radiation
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A The detection principle muon tracks cascades
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A Why neutrinos ? or e : : ~ 1:2:0 changes to (typically) 1:1:1 at Earth Travel straight (in contrast to CR) Are not absorbed by IR or CMB (in contrast to gammas and CR) Clear signature of hadronic nature
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A Challenges Low interaction cross section Need huge detection volumes Actual neutrino flux depends on target thickness Predictions 25 years ago have been up to two orders of magnitude higher than today 1990s: recognize need of cubic kilometer detectors Now: cubic kilometer detectors will possibly just scratch the interesting range Martin Harwitt: „Would one have believed the timid predictions of theoreticians, X-ray astronomy would likely have started only a decade later.“
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A Pioneering DUMAND ~ 1975: first meetings towards an underwater array close to Hawaii Test string 1987 Proposal 1988: The „Octagon“ (~ 1/3 AMANDA) Termination 1996
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A Pioneering Baikal NT-200 3600 m 1366 m 1981 first site explorations 1984 first stationary string 1993 first neutrino detector NT-36 1994 first atm. Neutrino separated 1998 NT-200 finished Ice as natural deployment platform
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A Pioneering Baikal A textbook neutrino 4-string stage (1996) cascades 140 m Detection of high energy cascades outside the instrumented volume Fence the observation volume with a few PMTs 4 times better sensitivity at high energies NT200+ NT200+ running since 2006
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A AMANDA 1990: first site studies at South Pole 1993/94 shallow detectors in bubbly ice 1997: 10 strings (AMANDA-B10) 2000: AMANDA-II
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A AMANDA Hot water drilling
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A AMANDA AMANDA-II depth Scattering bubbles dust
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A AMANDA + N + X AMANDA sykplot 2000-2003 3329 events below horizon more on point sources in the following talk
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A South and North AMANDA & Baikal skyplot, galactic coordinates
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A Parameters of neutrino telescopes Effective area: ~ 0.1 m² @ 10 TeV ~ 1 m² @ 100 TeV ~ 100 m² @ 100 TeV Point source sensitivity: AMANDA, ANTARES: ~ 10 -10 / (cm² s) above 1 TeV IceCube : ~ 10 -12 / (cm² s) above 1 TeV AMANDA, ANTARES IceCube
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A IceCube Dark sector AMANDA IceCube Skiway South Pole Station Geographic South Pole
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A IceCube 4800 Digital Optical Modules on 80 strings 160 Ice-Cherenkov tank surface array (IceTop) 1 km 3 of instrumented Ice Surrounding existing AMANDA detector
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A Hose reel Drill tower Hot water supply IceTop Station (2 tanks) Less energy and more than twice as fast as old AMANDA drill
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A … not always easy
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A IceCube Drilling & Deployment
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A Status 2007
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A Cumulative Instrumented Volume Graph shows cumulative km 3 ·yr of exposure × volume 1 km 3 ·yr reached 2 years before detector is completed Close to 4 km 3 ·yr at the beginning of 2 nd year of full array operation.
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A 4100m 2400m 3400m ANTARES NEMO NESTOR The Mediterranean approach
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A ANTARES Neutrino candidate from 5-string detector
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A Physics from Baikal & AMANDA Atmospheric neutrinos Diffuse fluxes Point sources see talk of Elisa Resconi Coincidences with GRB Supernova Bursts & SNEWS WIMP indirect detection Magnetic monopoles ….
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A Atmospheric neutrinos Spectrum measured up to ~ 100 TeV
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A Limit on diffuse extraterrestrial fluxes Spectrum measured up to ~ 100 TeV From this method and one year data we exclude E -2 fluxes with E 2 > 2.7 10 -7 GeV sr -1 s -1 cm -2
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A Limit on diffuse extraterrestrial fluxes Spectrum measured up to ~ 100 TeV From this method and one year data we exclude E -2 fluxes with E 2 > 2.7 10 -7 GeV sr -1 s -1 cm -2 With 4 years and improved methods we are now at E 2 > 8.8 10 -8 GeV sr -1 s -1 cm -2
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A MPR bound, no neutron escape (gamma bound) Factor 11 below MPR bound for sources opaque to neutrons Experimental limits & theoretical bounds
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A MPR bound, neutrons escape (CR bound) Factor 4 below MPR bound for sources transparent to neutrons Experimental limits & theoretical bounds
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A AGN core (SS) AGN Jet (MPR) GRB (WB) GZK Experimental limits & theoretical bounds
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A AGN core (SS) „old“ Stecker model excluded old version Experimental limits & theoretical bounds
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A AGN core (SS, new version) „new“ Stecker model not excluded (MRF = 1.9) Experimental limits & theoretical bounds
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A AGN Jet (MPR) GRB (WB) still above AGN jet (MPR) (MRF ~ 2.3) Experimental limits & theoretical bounds
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A Limit on diffuse extraterrestrial fluxes AMANDA HE analysis Baikal IceCube muons, 1 year Icecube, muons & cascades 4 years GRB (WB)
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A Coincidences with GRB Hughey et al., astro-ph/0611597 407 bursts 73 bursts Check for coincidences with - BATSE - IPN - SWIFT 408 bursts With IceCube: test WB within a few months
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A Detection of Supernova Bursts ice uniformly illuminated detect correlated rate increase on top of PMT noise SN neutrino signal simulation center of galaxy, normalized to SN1987A Dark noise in AMANDA only ~ 500 Hz !
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A Participation in SNEWS coincidence server @ BNL Super-K alert SNO LVD AMANDA (IceCube) http://snews.bnl.govhttp://snews.bnl.gov and astro-ph/0406214 IceCube will follow this year …several hours advanced notice to astronomers
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A Supernova in IceCube 5 signal for SN of 1987A strength Dark noise in IceCube Optical Modules is only ~ 250 Hz !
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A Summary tremendous technological progress over last decade (Baikal, South Pole, now also Mediterrannean) no positive detection yet, but already testing realistic models/bounds IceCube reaches 1 km 3 year by the end of 2008 entering region with realistic discovery potential IceCube discoveries/non-discoveries will influence design of KM3NeT
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A Events from IC9 Left: upward muon Right: IceTop/IceCube event
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A Back-ups
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A WIMPs: neutrinos from center of Earth Assumptions: Dark matter in Galaxy due to neutralinos Density ~ 0.3 GeV/cm 3 + b + b C + +
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A WIMPs: neutrinos from center of Earth
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A WIMPs: neutrinos from Sun Amanda
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A WIMPs: neutrinos from Sun
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A Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles Cherenkov-Light n 2 ·(g/e) 2 n = 1.33 (g/e) = 137 / 2 8300 10 -16 10 -15 10 -14 10 -18 10 -17 = v/c 1.000.750.50 upper limit (cm -2 s -1 sr -1 ) KGF Soudan MACRO Orito Baikal Amanda IceCube electrons
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A Icecube Performance: muons Effective Area for Muons Galactic center * Studies based on simpler reconstructions waveform information will improve Muon neutrino Angular resolution
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A Sensitivities AMANDA (neutrinos) IceCube (neutrinos) Sensitivity (2π sr, 100% ontime): 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1000 TeV 3 years exposure, 5 sigma 90% U.L. AMANDA, ANTARES: ~ 10 -10 / (cm² s) above 1 TeV IceCube : ~ 10 -12 / (cm² s) above 1 TeV
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A The big picture 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 10 -4 10 -10 10 -8 10 -6 10-1000 TeV 1 EeV Dumand Frejus Macro Baikal/Amanda IceCube/ KM3NeT Rice AGASA Rice GLUE Anita, Auger Flux * E² (GeV/ cm² sec sr) Sensitivity to HE diffuse neutrino fluxes Waxman-Bahcall limit
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A Methods for > 100 PeV Radio detection of showers at the moon GLUE, Kalyazhin in future: LOFAR, SKA Radio detection of neutrinos in ice or salt RICE, ANITA, Test array AURA (IceCube) future: ARIANNA, SALSA Acoustic detection of neutrinos in water and ice test arrays SPATS (IceCube) and AMADEUS (ANTARES) Detection of fluorescence signals in air from ground: AGASA, Auger from space: FORTE, in future – EUSO, OWL
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A Detectors underground KGF BAKSAN * FREJUS IMB KAMIOKANDE MACRO Super- KAMIOKANDE * e.g. MACRO, 1356 upgoing muons ~1000 m² *) still data taking
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A All flavor limits Normalized to one flavor and assuming e = 1:1:1 full IceCube, 4 years, combining muon and cascade data
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A Coincidences with GRB Hughey et al., astro-ph/0611597 407 bursts 73 bursts 408 bursts
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