The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope
F. Halzen (for the AMANDA Collaboration)

TL;DR
The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope is a pioneering high-energy neutrino detector using deep ice, demonstrating calibration and performance capabilities with a large effective area and good pointing accuracy for neutrino astronomy.
Contribution
This paper introduces the AMANDA detector, the first of a new generation of neutrino telescopes, and reports initial calibration and performance results.
Findings
Effective area of about 10^4 m^2 for TeV neutrinos
Pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees per muon track
Successful calibration of deep ice as a particle detector
Abstract
With an effective telescope area of order m for TeV neutrinos, a threshold near 50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees per muon track, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged over 25 years ago. We describe early results on the calibration of natural deep ice as a particle detector as well as on AMANDA's performance as a neutrino telescope.
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