NOvA sees its first neutrino oscillations
10 Aug 2015: Scientists of the NoVA experiments saw their first evidence of oscillating neutrinos. Read the Press release of Fermilab.
KM3NeT - Research
Highlights during day-to-day KM3NeT research activities such as pitches for new papers, talks and posters during international conferences and (internal) workshops, comments on events in astroparticle physics and particle physics etc.
Nobel prize for discovery of neutrino oscillations
6 Oct 2015: The KM3NeT Collaboration congratulates Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald who were awarded today the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”. Read the press release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
New Lake Baikal telescope – First cluster of GVD neutrino telescope operational
22 Jul 2015: In the Spring of 2015, the first cluster of the Gigaton Volume Detector (GVD) – the “Dubna Cluster” – has been concluded and is operational since. Read the article in the CERN courier.
KM3NeT 2.0 – ARCA and ORCA
10 May 2015: KM3NeT has defined the next step in the realisation of the research infrastructure in the deep seas of the Mediterranean: KM3NeT2.0 to conduct Astroparticle & Oscillations Resreach with Cosmics in the Abyss with ARCA and ORCA.More in the KM3NeT-Strategy Report 2015-05-06.
KM3NeT Strategy Document – Phased implementation of the KM3NeT Research Infrastructure
26 November 2014: The KM3NeT Collaboration has published its strategy for a phased construction of the KM3NeT Research Infrastructure at three locations in the deep seas of the Mediterranean at the southern coasts of Europe. Read more
Evidence for high-energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos – IceCube pushes neutrinos to the forefront of astronomy
22 Nov 2013: The IceCube collaboration reported in Science Magazine the observation of 28 very high-energy particle events that constitute the first solid evidence for astrophysical neutrinos from cosmic accelerators. Read more about this exciting news at the Icecube website.
2013 Nobel Prize Physics: The Higgs boson
08 Oct 2013: The 2013 Nobel Prize Physics is awarded to Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs for “their theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.”
KM3NeT prototype optical module “sees” muons
16 Apr 2013: On 16th April 2013, the first KM3NeT DOM (Digital Optical Module) was put into operation in the deep sea. For this, the module has been installed on the instrumentation line of the ANTARES neutrino telescope. KM3NeT-Press release 2013-06-03
Qualification of KM3NeT String Deployment method
15 Apr 2013: During the first two weeks of April, an extensive qualification programme has been executed to qualify the novel string deployment method of KM3NeT.
Short videos demonstrating the concept of deployment can be found in our YouTube channel and playlists.
