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on our universe
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.
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.”
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
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.
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