The BAIKAL Neutrino Experiment: From NT200 to NT200+
Abstract
The Baikal Neutrino Telescope has been operating in its NT200 configuration since April, 1998. The telescope has been upgraded in April, 2005, to the 10 Mton scale detector NT200+. It's main physics goal is the detection of signals from high energy neutrino cascades. NT200+ reaches a 3-year sensitivity of 2 \times 10^{-7}cm^{-2}s^{-1}sr^{-1}GeV for an all-flavor diffuse cosmic E^{-2} neutrino flux for energies 10^2 TeV \div 10^5 TeV. Desgin and sensitivity of NT200+ are described. NT200+ is forming the basic building block of a future km3-scale (Gigaton-Volume) Baikal Telescope. Research and development work on that next stage detector has started.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609743,
title = {The BAIKAL Neutrino Experiment: From NT200 to NT200+},
author = {R. Wischnewski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609743},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages, 8 figures; presented at 2nd Workshop on Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes (VLVNT2), Catania, Italy, 8.-11. November 2005