Status of the Baikal Neutrino Telescope Status of the Baikal Neutrino Telescope NT200+ NT200+ VLVNT2 Workshop, Catania, 9.11.2005 VLVNT2 Workshop, Catania, 9.11.2005 Ralf Wischnewski DESY, Zeuthen Outline: - Motivation / Methods - The new Detector NT200+ : Design + First Light - Why NT200+ ? - Diffuse cosmic neutrino searches with NT200 - Sensitivity of NT200+ : diffuse cosmic neutrinos. Other physics results from NT200 See talk by Z.Djilkibaev on Friday (Monopoles, WIMPs, HE muons, prompt leptons,..) - Future: A km3 “Gigaton Volume Detector” at Baikal.
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Status of the Baikal Neutrino Telescope Status of the Baikal Neutrino Telescope
NT200+ NT200+
VLVNT2 Workshop, Catania, 9.11.2005VLVNT2 Workshop, Catania, 9.11.2005
Other physics results from NT200 See talk by Z.Djilkibaev on Friday (Monopoles, WIMPs, HE muons, prompt
leptons,..)
- Future: A km3 “Gigaton Volume Detector” at Baikal.
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High Energy -Astronomy --> Catch first astrophyical HE ’s Cosmic ray acceleration sites
New observational window to Universe (new objects ?)
Dark Matter (neutralino annihilation in Earth/Sun/Gal.C.)
Prompt lepton production in atmosphere ( + µ ; cross sections, …)
Exotic particles:
Magnetic Monopoles (relativistic or ultra-slow) … CR: HE atmospheric muons (exotic component ?), composition…
Neutrino Telescopes: Physics Motivation
Astro -
Astro -
- Particle P
hysics
- Particle P
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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
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Baikal
Baikal Collaboration: Russia – Germany - Institute of Nuclear Research, Moscow - Moscow State University - DESY Zeuthen - Irkutsk State University - Nishni Novgorod State Techn. Univ. - State Marine Techn. Univ. St.Petersburg - Kurchatov Institute, Moscow - JINR, Dubna
~45 authors
Project Milestones:
>1983: site / water studies; R&D: large area PMT, underwater
techno., physics small setups (exotics search)
1991: Project NT200 approved
1993: NT36 – Telescope the first underwater array operates ...first ’s and ’s in NeutrinoTelescope
1998: NT200 commissioned
2005: NT200+ commissioned
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4km OffShoreDepth: 1366 m
Shore Station
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ExtString 1 ExtString 3 ExtString 2 NT200 Central+Outer Str.
New ShoreCable
100 m
Foto from March, 2005, 4km off-shore:
NT200+ deployment from 1m thick ice.
Ice – A perfect natural deployment platform
• Ice is stable for 6-8 winter-weeks/year : – Upgrades & maintenance – Test & installation of new equipment – Operation of surface detectors (EAS, acoustics,… )– Electrical winches used for deployment operations (all connections done dry)
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NT200 running since 1998
- - 8 strings with 192 optical modules
- - 72m height, R=20m, 1070m depth, Vgeo=0.1Mton
- effective area: >2000 m2 (E>1 TeV)
- Shower Eff Volume: ~1 Mton at 1 PeV
NT200+ commissioned April 9, 2005
- 3 new strings, 200 m height, 36 OMs- 1 new bright Laser for time calibration imitation of 10 PeV-500 PeV cascades, >10^13 photons/pulse w/ diffusor, SNO-Calib- 2 new 4km cables to shore- DAQ – New Underwater & Shore Station: Underwater Linux embedded PCs, Industrial Ethernet Systems
4 Km to shore
NT200+ is tailored to UHE -induced cascades- 5 Mton equipped volume- V_eff >10 Mton at 10 PeV
4fold sensitivity gain with only 20% additional PMTS.
The Baikal Detector NT200+
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84 Km to shore
DAQ and Slow Control of NT200+
DAQ Modernization (2004/05): - First PCs/PC104 used underwater;- DSL Mbps to shore (w/ spare);- UW-ethernet (hot spares); - Full multiplexing of all data/control streams; - Industrial auxiliary components (EthRelais, ...)- Linux (uw + shore)
Light scatteringLight scattering- scattering length 30 m- scattering length 30 m- distance to Laser ~200 m- distance to Laser ~200 m
Jitter of electonics ~2 nsJitter of electonics ~2 ns- synchro cable length 1.2 km - synchro cable length 1.2 km - TDC bin 2 ns- TDC bin 2 ns
The amplitude dependence of relative time jitter measured for several pairs of channels of NT200 andexternal strings. Red line is result of Scat_MC calculation.
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Laser intensity reconstruction
r < 1 m
I/I ~ 6%
lowest intensity
five laser intensities
NT200+: “Laser-cascade” reconstruction
NT200
NT200+
3 outer str.
Reconstruct z-r
Laser vertex reconstruction
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Why NT200+ ?
Diffuse Cosmic Neutrino Search with
NT200.
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NT200: Search for High Energy Diffuse Cascades
Watch the non-instrumented volume below
detector for cascades = Upward moving light fronts.
(„BG“)
large effective volume
NT200
Vgeo (NT-200)
10 Mton
Effective Volume vs. Energy
NT200+ : Instrument the volume below detector better BG suppression and improved physics.
Much improved reconstruction of cascade coordinates + energy
• NT200NT200
• NT200+NT200+
Is a conservative predicition: vertex + energy reconstruction will improve sensitivity !
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15Mton 30Mton
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Future:
A Gigaton Volume (km3) Detector at
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NT200+ - important step towards a km3 @ Baikal
NT200+ as a subunit of a km3 scale detector.
For High Energy Cascades:A single small string replacing the NT200 central core reduces Veff less than x3 for E>100TeV. A short string instead of NT200 as a subunit for a Gton scale detector is ok !
140 m
Effective volume for simplified Effective volume for simplified NT200’s.NT200’s.
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Sparse instrumentation:
91 strings with 12/16 OM = 1308 OMs
Casacde effective volume for 100 TeV: ~ 0.5 -1.0 km³
Muon threshold between 10 and 100 TeV
Baseline schedule:
- R&D +TechDesRep 2006-08.
Funded.- Construction ≥2009.
A Gigaton (km3) Detector in Lake Baikal
Mini NT200+Mini NT200+
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- Basic detector element is NT200+. Under “Real Physics Test“ since 4/2005. -Dedicated R&D for Baikal/km3 – technology starts in 2006. Redesign of some key elements is under consideration.
Issues:
- Optical Module: Quasar vs other? Grouping 2 vs 3? FADC readout? ...- Time synchronization: electrical vs. optical, .... - System architecture: subarray trigger, string controller, data transfer, ...- Auxiliary systems: acoustic positioning, bright laser sources, …- MC design optimization- ...
- Interaction Baikal/km3 KM3NeT : Common activities for a few selected technical issues - could this be useful ? e.g. OMs (design/in-situ tests@NT200+); MC (design; verification); TimeSync.; Auxil.Dev.; …,...
A Gigaton (km3) Detector in Lake Baikal
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The Baikal Telescope is successfully running since >10 years.
NT200NT200 - High Sensitivity in HE-diffuse search (cascades): “Mton-detector” - Number of relevant other results: Magnetic Monopoles, WIMPs, GRB, atm.
NT200+ - Natural upgrade after diffuse NT200–success story: New 5 Mton instrumented detector commissioned in April, 2005. - Tailored to diffuse cosmic nu’s: >10Mton at 10PeV.