Status of the neutrino telescope AMANDA: Monopoles and WIMPs

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Status of the neutrino telescope AMANDA: Monopoles and WIMPs

K.-h. Becker P. O. Hulth Ch. Weinheimer H. Wissing S. Hundertmark J. P Dewulf Y. Minaeva G. Barouch Matthias Leuthold D. R. Nygren T. Neunhöffer Timothy W. Schmidt Jodi Cooley P. Miocinovic David A. Schneider Jan Conrad T. Feser James Kim S. Young R. Morse D. M. Lowder M. M. Boyce G. C. Hill M. Solarz H. Rubinstein P. Ekström T. Deyoung E. Dalberg Xinhua Bai H. Leich P. Romenesko Joakim Edsjö P. Steffen J. Rodríguez Martino J. I. Lamoureux Pawel Marciniewski P. Sudhoff D. F. Cowen Lars Bergström P. B. Price K. Rawlins Kael Hanson Staffan Carius D. Bertrand A. Chen T. Scheider P. Doksus Kurt Woschnagg James Madsen Olga Botner A. Karle M. Hellwig Hakki ÖGelman R. Schwarz H. S. Matis Paolo Desiati A. Goldschmidt H. G. Sander Dmitry Chirkin Adam Bouchta Allan Hallgren P. Lindahl Janet Jacobsen M. Kowalski Ole Streicher Francis Halzen R. Hardtke C. Walck N. Starinsky J. Dailing G. B. Yodh W. Wu I. Taboada J. Ludvig C. H. Wiebusch A. Silvestri R. G. Stokstad R. Wischnewski S. W. Barwick C. Pérez De Los Heros M. Gaug P. Niessen M. Vander Donckt Caroline Costa T. Miller D. Steele L. Köpke Wolfgang Rhode G. Smoot B. Koci D. Ross P. Loaiza A. Biron C. Spiering Stefan Richter Ariel Goobar Glenn Spiczak R. C. Bay

subject

Physics Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar neutrino Dark matter Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astronomy Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics Solar neutrino problem Neutrino detector Measurements of neutrino speed High Energy Physics::Experiment Neutrino Neutrino astronomy Cherenkov radiation

description

The neutrino telescope AMANDA has been set up at the geographical South Pole as first step to a neutrino telescope of the scale of one cubic kilometer, which is the canonical size for a detector sensitive to neutrinos from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) and Topological Defects (TD). The location and depth in which the detector is installed is given by the requirement to detect neutrinos by the Cherenkov light produced by their reaction products and to keep the background due to atmospheric muons as small as possible. However, a detector optimized for this purpose is also capable to detect the bright Cherenkov light from relativistic Monopoles and neutrino signals from regions with high gravitational potential, where WIMPS are accumulated and possibly annihilate. Both hypothetical particles might contribute to the amount of dark matter. Therefore here a report about the status of the experiment (autumn 2000) and about the status of the search for these particles with the AMANDA B10 sub-detector is given.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2001-01-01

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