KM3NeT - News Archive

At the International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications in Valencia, the presentation “KM3NeT, a Deep Sea Challenge for Neutrino Astronomy” by Ciro Bigongiari, IFIC, has been received one of the Best Paper awards of the conference. (view the paper)

December 18th, the Mid-term review of KM3NeT will take place in a meeting at CPPM, Marseille.

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During a workshop in Amsterdam, 12-16 November, a first version of the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the KM3NeT facility has been produced. Look at the pictures. During the mid-term review of the design study at December 18th in Marseille, the CDR will be presented to the EU scientific officer. After official approval by the KM3NeT General Assembly the CDR will become public in April 2008, during the VLVnT08 workshop in Toulon.

Jos Engelen, Chief Scientific Officer of CERN in the ASPERA newsletter: “It is natural to get excited about astroparticle physics”. Read more

At the EPS conference on High Energy Physics Lee Thompson won one of the Nuclear Physics B prizes for the best posters. View the poster.

Five contributions of KM3NeT to the ICRC2007 conference. Read more.

KM3NeT in the Newsletter of ASPERA. Read more.

KM3NeT at the RICAP07 conference in Rome. View the slides

May 2nd, 2007 the KM3NeT consortium has submitted a proposal for its preparatory phase in the European 7th frame work program (FP7).

On 1 February 2006 the KM3NeT Design Study for a Deep Facility in the Mediterranean for Neutrino Astronomy and Associated Sciences started. The study is supported under Research infrastructures: Specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration: “Structuring the European Research Area” under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006