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An European Design Study for the construction of a km³-scale astrophysical neutrinos telescope in the Mediterranean Sea

The km³ Neutrino Telescope will be the largest particle detector and astronomical instrument ever constructed. It will be operating not on land, but in the clear waters of the deep Mediterranean.

Its missions:

o to detect high energy neutrinos, elusive particles that arrive undeviated from a multitude of astrophysical sources and may be key to understanding our universe;

o to enhance infrastructure for deep sea scientific observations.

- Official documents:

The Design Study Proposal Document pdf

The Annex1, to the European Contract, document pdf

The Project Coordination Committee (PCC)

The KM3NeT Conceptual Design Report

The KM3NeT Technical Design Report

- WP5 documents

o Deliberable 5.1: Report on evaluation of existing water, oceanographic, biological and geological data from candidate sites

o Deliverable 5.2: Autonomous deep-sea multi-sensor probe for deep-sea measurements

o Deliverable 5.3:

· CDR, pages 57-63: the final report on the first phase of site studies including a recommendation of a long-term measurement program;

· CDR, pages 89, 91-92: an intermediate report on design procedures and tooling for detector deployment and recovery;

· CDR, pages 92-93: an intermediate report on deep-sea infrastructures required for deployment, connection and recovery of deep-sea detector units

· CDR, pages 83-88: an intermediate report on the design of the deep-sea power and data network.

o Deliverable 5.4: Description of the most critical parts of the deployment/recovery system

o Deliverable 5.5:

· TDR, pages 117-133: the final results of the site studies;

· TDR, pages 97-104 : a description of the procedures and tooling for detector onshore assembly, deployment and recovery;

· TDR, pages 105: a description of the deep-sea infrastructures required for deployment, connection and recovery of deep-sea detector units

· TDR, pages 75-83: the final results of the design of the deep-sea power and data network;

· TDR, pages 22-24, 39-40, 45, and several other parts of the document: a description of the design of the shore infrastructure.

o Final document on Sites evaluation and on shore and deep-sea infrastructure for a Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea