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

摘要9512196巴维克这个学术研究基础设施（ARI）奖提供资金的设备，仪器约一立方公里的冰在南极站，使地球上最大的探测器的高能粒子。 一个光学探测器阵列将被埋在一公里多深的冰层中，以探测穿过冰层的粒子的切伦科夫辐射。 由此产生的南极μ子和中微子探测器阵列（阿曼达Mark 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源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，一个授予威斯康星州大学。 两所大学都同意按照ARI提案的要求提供对等资金。 阿曼达项目是威斯康星州大学、位于欧文和伯克利的加州大学、斯德哥尔摩大学、乌普萨拉大学（均在瑞典）和德国的DESY的合作努力。 ***

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. ***