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

这项学术研究基础设施（ARI）奖为在南极站测量大约一立方公里冰的设备提供资金，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下一公里多深的地方，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μ子和中微子探测器阵列（AMANDA 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来自天体物理源的高能中微子产生的粒子的探测器。ARI有两个奖项，一个给加州大学欧文分校，一个给威斯康星大学。两所大学已同意按照国际ARI提案的要求，提供相应的资金。AMANDA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的合作成果。* * *

Abstract 9512578 Halzen 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. ***