PT Journal
AU ANTARES Collaboration (Aguilar, JAea
   Bigongiari, C
   Dornic, D
   Emanuele, U
   Gomez-Gonzalez, JP
   Hernandez-Rey, JJ
   Mangano, S
   Salesa, F
   Toscano, S
   Yepes, H
   Zornoza, JD
   Zuñiga, J
TI Time calibration of the ANTARES neutrino telescope
SO Astroparticle Physics
JI Astropart Phys.
PY 2011
BP 539
EP 549
VL 34
IS 7
DI 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.12.004
LA English
DE Time calibration; Neutrino telescopes; ANTARES
AB The ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope comprises a three-dimensional array of photomultipliers to detect the Cherenkov light induced by upgoing relativistic charged particles originating from neutrino interactions in the vicinity of the detector. The large scattering length of light in the deep sea facilitates an angular resolution of a few tenths of a degree for neutrino energies exceeding 10 TeV. In order to achieve this optimal performance, the time calibration procedures should ensure a relative time calibration between the photomultipliers at the level of similar to 1 ns. The methods developed to attain this level of precision are described.
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