First day of deployments at the ARCA site
11 September 2021 – operations are proceeding smoothly on Handin Tide.
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Liveblog about the ongoing sea operation for ARCA
10 September 2021 – In the evening of September 10, five new detection units of KM3NeT, onboard the Handin Tide, will sail from Malta headed to the KM3NeT/ARCA detection site. This site is located 80 km off the coast of Capo Passero, Sicily (Italy). During a 1-week operation, the detection units will be deployed and connected to the ARCA neutrino telescope at 3,500 m depth, adding up to the six already in operation.
Handin Tide left the harbour of Malta
10 September 2021 – the Handin Tide left the port of Malta around 5 p.m. CEST.
The navigation to the KM3NeT site is estimated to take about 10 hours.
The weather forecast is good. The activity on site will start early morning tomorrow.
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Liveblog about the sea ARCA campaign of September 2021
09 September 2021 – KM3NeT is getting ready for a new sea operation at the ARCA site near Sicily, Italy.
Five new detection units for ARCA are ready to board the ship in the harbour of Malta.
The ship is scheduled to set sail in the evening of 10 September 2021.
We will report on this operation with posts in the social media and in this liveblog.
KM3NeT at ICRC2021
29 July 2021 – The International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) has come to an end after two intense weeks.
The biannual conference organised under auspices of IUPAP, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. This year, the 37th edition of the conference was organised as an online version by DESY Zeuthen in Germany. The KM3NeT Collaboration participated in the conference with many contributions accepted by the International Science Committee of the conference.
Yet another virtual spring meeting
A few weeks ago, KM3NeT held its two-week long spring meeting, once again virtually, like almost all meetings nowadays.
New publication: Neutrino Mass Ordering and Oscillation Parameters
05 May 2021 – The potential of KM3NeT to measure key properties of neutrinos – in March 2021, the KM3NeT Collaboration released a publication showing that KM3NeT with its ORCA detector will be in an excellent position to study the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations!
Exciting deployment on the ARCA site!
15 April 2021 – During the last few weeks – despite the pandemic – the KM3NeT Collaboration worked hard to make five new detection units for ARCA ready for deployment. Spooled on their launching vehicles they arrived at the harbour of Malta where a team of KM3NeT technicians, engineers, and scientists inspected thoroughly the units for the last time before they were loaded onto the Miss Marilene Tide of the FUGRO company. In the early morning of 8th April the ship sailed out toward the IDMAR site of ARCA near Sicily for an amazing sea operation. After installing several new components for the seafloor network, on Monday 12 April the deployment of the five new detection units began.
Exciting times for neutrino astronomy!
15 March 2021 – In the past weeks, not one but two exciting observations were published in the field of neutrino-astronomy! A neutrino was observed that could be correlated to a Tidal Disruption Event observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility and for the first time a particle shower was observed by the IceCube detector at the energy of the Glashow resonance. KM3NeT rejoices for these remarkable observations that show the increasing power of neutrino astronomy and multi-messenger observation.
