KM3NeT is the next generation of neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. Once completed, the telescopes will occupy a volume of several cubic kilometres of clear sea water. KM3NeT comprises two different instruments deployed at two different sites:
- ORCA, designed to study low-energy neutrinos (MeV-TeV) is currently installed near Toulon, France
- ARCA, optimised for high-energy neutrinos (>TeV) is being deployed offshore Capo Passero, Italy
The CP3 group uses both sites to study some of the most energetic phenomena happening in our universe, such as gamm-ray bursts, compact binary mergers, and solar flares.
The facility also houses instrumentation for Earth and Sea sciences for long-term and on-line monitoring of the deep sea environment and the sea bottom at a depth of several kilometers. The CP3 group uses these sensors to study the different signatures of bioluminescence species.
This project aims at optimising neutrino telescopes, especially the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and KM3NeT, to detect GeV and sub-GeV astrophysical neutrinos. The instruments are then used to search for low-energy neutrinos from transient sources, such as solar flares, compact binary mergers, or gamma-ray bursts.
