Deployment of an autonomous apparatus for measuring light scattering in deep sea


K. G. Balasi
T. Domvoglou
I. Kiskiras
D. Lenis
N. Maragos
G. Stavropoulos
Abstract

The KM3NeT research infrastructure will be a deep sea multidisciplinary observatory in the Mediterranean Sea housing a neutrino telescope. Accurate knowledge of the optical properties of the sea water is important for the best performance of the telescope. In this work we describe the deployment of the equipment that we had previously examined by Monte Carlo (MC) simulations1, in the context of the “scattering experiment” in order to evaluate the parameters describing the scattering characteristics of the sea water.

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“Measurement of light scattering in deep sea – MC study of the method and design of the experimental setup” , T. Domvoglou, D. Lenis, M. Maniatis, N. Maragos and G. Stavropoulos, Deliverable in the context of KPHPIS-ORASI “Search for the visible and invisible universe with accelerators and new detectors”.
“Measurement of light scattering in deep sea”, N. Maragos, K.G. Balasi, T. Domvoglou, I. Kiskiras, D. Lenis, M. Maniatis and G. Stavropoulos, Proceedings of the VLVT “Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes”, 14-16 September 2015, Rome-Italy.
“An autonomous underwater telescope for measuring the scattering of light in the deep sea”, K.G. Balasi, T. Domvoglou, I. Kiskiras, D. Lenis, M. Maniatis, N. Maragos and G. Stavropoulos, TAUP 2015, Proceedings of the XIV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, September 7-11, 2015, Torino-Italy .