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The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Science Prospects and Performance at First Light

Astrophysics 2009-10-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We update the science prospects for the recently completed AMANDA South Pole neutrino detector. With an effective telescope area of order 10^4 m^2 and a threshold of ~50 GeV, it represents the first instrument of a new generation of high energy neutrino detectors, envisaged over 25 years ago. We describe the instrument and its performance, and map its expansion to a detector of kilometer dimension.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9707289,
  title  = {The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope: Science Prospects and Performance at First Light},
  author = {Francis Halzen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9707289},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 pages, Latex2.09, uses epsf.sty. Includes 14 postscript files