Development of a Second-Generation Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array: AMANDA-Mark II

第二代南极μ子和中微子探测器阵列的开发：AMANDA-Mark II

• 批准号: 9512196
• 负责人: Steven Barwick
• 金额: $ 95万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-15 至 2001-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9512196&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Second; Generation; Antarctic; Muon

Abstract 9512196 Barwick This Academic Research Infrastructure (ARI) award provides funds for equipment to instrument approximately one cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole Station to make the largest detector on Earth for energetic particles. An array of optical detectors will be buried more than a kilometer deep in the very clear ice to detect Cherenkov radiation from particles passing through the ice. The resulting Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA Mark 2) will have several scientific uses: most importantly it is expected to be the first detector capable of routinely measuring particles produced by energetic neutrinos from astrophysical sources. There are two ARI awards, one to the University of California, Irvine and one to the University of Wisconsin. Both universities have agreed, in accordance with ARI proposal requirements, to provide matching funds. The AMANDA project is a collaborative effort of the University of Wisconsin, the Universities of California at Irvine and Berkeley, the University of Stockholm, the University of Uppsala (both in Sweden) and DESY in Germany. ***

摘要9512196巴威克这一学术研究基础设施奖为南极站约1立方公里的冰提供了仪器设备，以制造地球上最大的高能粒子探测器。一组光学探测器将被埋在非常透明的冰层中超过一公里深的地方，以探测穿过冰层的粒子产生的切伦科夫辐射。由此产生的南极Muon和中微子探测器阵列(阿曼达马克2)将有几个科学用途：最重要的是，它有望成为第一个能够常规测量天体物理来源的高能中微子产生的粒子的探测器。ARI有两个奖项，一个授予加州大学欧文分校，另一个授予威斯康星大学。两所大学都同意根据ARI提案的要求提供相应的资金。阿曼达项目是威斯康星大学、加州大学欧文分校和伯克利分校、斯德哥尔摩大学、乌普萨拉大学(均在瑞典)和德国DESY共同努力的结果。***