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ANTARES - a deep-sea neutrino telescope
V. A. Kudryavtsev (Sheffield)
ANTARES (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss Environmental
RESearch) - is a project to build a high-energy neutrino detector in
the Mediterranean sea. Such detector will open a new window on the Universe
and will allow us to probe regions of space, including those at cosmological
distances, opaque for other radiations. Potential sources of high-energy
neutrinos include X-ray binaries, young supernova remnants, active galactic
nuclei, gamma-ray bursters, topological defects and other exotics. ANTARES
will be also sensitive to neutrinos produced via neutralino annihilations
in the centres of Sun, Earth and Galaxy, thus probing cosmological and
particle physics models. The method to detect high-energy neutrinos will be
described and the performances of deep-sea neutrino telescope for neutrino
astronomy will be reviewed. The current status of the project will be
presented.
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