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.

Physics Nobel prize 2017

Congratulations to Rainer Weiss, Bary Barrish, Kip Thorne and the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration!

The KM3NeT Collaboration congratulates their pioneering work and the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration for this award. From a brilliant idea to an impressively sensitive instrument detecting the most violent events in the Universe!


Lake Baikal and Pylos

In April 2017, the global neutrino telescope community realising telescopes across the globe, made important progress at two locations very distant from each other. Read more





KM3NeT at Neutrino 2016

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4 July 2016 – Last week, KM3NeT researchers have participated in the biannual get together of neutrino physicists at the 27th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Neutrino 2016 in London, England. Read more


Poster prize

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12 July 2016 – The KM3NeT Collaboration congratulates João Coelho, Astroparticle and Cosmology, Paris with the award of one of the Nature Poster Prizes at the Neutrino 2016 conference, 4-9 July in London. Read more


KM3NeT congratulates LIGO

KM3NeT congratulates the colleagues of the LIGO Collaboration with the first detection of gravitational waves. An impressive achievement that not only proves Einstein to be right, but also gives a strong boost to multi-messenger astronomy. Read more


A Letter of Intent for KM3NeT 2.0

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28 Jan 2016 -Today, scientists of the KM3NeT Collaboration have announced KM3NeT 2.0, their ambition for the immediate future to further exploit the clear waters of the deep Mediterranean Sea for the detection of cosmic and atmospheric neutrinos. Read more