The Baikal Neutrino Project
Abstract
The Baikal neutrino project addresses a wide spectrum of scientific problems, most notably the detection of neutrinos of astrophysical origin. The project was started in 1980 with the first site investigations in Lake Baikal. Between 1993-1998, the world's first deep underwater neutrino telescope, NT200, was constructed, and it has taken data for more than 2 decade. The second-generation neutrino telescope, Baikal-GVD, will be a research facility of cubic-kilometer scale consisting of independent subarrays (clusters of light sensors). The prototyping/early construction phase of the Baikal-GVD project concluded in April 2015 with deployment and commissioning of the first cluster of Baikal-GVD.
- Publication:
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Neutrino Astronomy: Current Status, Future Prospects
- Pub Date:
- 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789814759410_0008
- Bibcode:
- 2017nacs.book..115A