December 7th, 2007 From 5 to 10 lines A major step toward completion This morning, while the crew on “Pourquoi Pas?” was recovering the remotely operated submarine, the on-shore team powered on the 5 new detection lines and the new instrumented line recently connected. After a quick calibration consisting in […]
Yearly archives: 2007
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February 21st, 2007 First neutrinos detected The picture below shows an event before (on the left) and after (on the right) the hits due to bioluminescence have been filtered. Colours vary with time, the event lasting about 2 microseconds. The selected hits have allowed the reconstruction of an upward going […]
January 29th, 2007 Neutrino astronomy in the Mediterranean! On January 29, at dawn, the last of the 3 recently immersed lines was connected, and the 5 lines that make the Antares detector were powered. At the end of the day, the first 5-line muons were seen. The size of […]