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KM3NeT welcomes newcomers at the 2024 Bootcamp

10 December 2024 – The KM3NeT Bootcamp 2024, held at the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics – ECAP, took place last week, bringing together 56 enthusiastic participants from around the world in a hybrid format. Over four engaging days, the attendees, guided by 18 expert teachers, dived into the fundamentals of KM3NeT, gaining insights into its core principles and tools.

The agenda included foundational sessions on the KM3NeT collaboration and detector principles, as well as hands-on workshops in software development, data acquisition, simulations, and calibration. Advanced topics covered astronomy, cosmic rays, neutrino oscillations, and the study of dark matter. Participants also explored tools for effective coding, data quality and computing strategies.

This event served as more than an introduction—it welcomed newcomers into the KM3NeT community, inspiring them to contribute to the future of science.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to ECAP for their exceptional organization and support in hosting this event.

Here’s to the next generation of cosmic explorers!

KM3NeT gathered online for its fall collaboration meeting

13 November 2024 – Last week , the KM3NeT Collaboration has met online for its fall meeting.

During the meeting, we reviewed the current status of data taking for both ARCA and ORCA detectors, discussed the advancements in their construction, the progresses in MC simulation and detector calibration, and outlined the plans for the ongoing data analyses.

It was also the occasion to celebrate our two last sea campaigns and thus the expanded configurations of the detectors, ARCA 33 and ORCA24. The deployment of new instrumentation on the ORCA site will allow for a precise monitoring of the detector position and water properties.

During the meeting Antoine Kouchner started his mandate as chairperson of the Institute Board, taking over from Uli Katz: with many thanks to Uli for all the work done in the past years, and good luck to Antoine for his new duty.

Also during the meeting, the process to elect the new Management Team of the Collaboration was started.

Finally, KM3NeT gave a heartfelt greeting to its new members. Juan Antonio Aguilar Sánchez of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Elisa Bernardini of Padova University, Italy, joined as Observers, while the team led by Arthur Ukleja from the University of Krakow, Poland, was endorsed as Full Member.

A warm welcome to everyone!

It was great to see the advancements in the physics analyses as well as the simulation and calibration works, to discuss recent scientific advancements and to see the Collaboration continue to grow.

The next Collaboration Meeting is scheduled for January, in Belgium, at Louvain-la-Neuve.

A collaboration in corona times

18 February 2021 – Like everyone else the KM3NeT Collaboration has to follow the restrictive measures against the COVID-19 pandemic. So, once more, the last two weeks we held our Collaboration meeting on-line. At this virtual meeting we discussed the many details of building the telescopes, analysing the data and developing the simulation programs. We are very encouraged by the large progress with constructing the many detector components and the installation of the ARCA and ORCA telescope infrastructures. We are excited by the many analyses of data from the installed detector units on which we will report at the upcoming conferences. Nevertheless, we tremendously miss our colleagues. In particular, for the young scientists in our Collaboration these are difficult times, but they are amazing in their efforts for the Collaboration.

During the Collaboration meeting we virtually said goodbye and thank you to Marco Anghinolfi, who will be retiring soon after many years of service to the Collaboration. We hope you enjoy your retirement. Arrivederci, but no goodbye!

We virtually raised a glass to thank Mauro Taiuti for his four years of leadership as Spokesperson of KM3NeT. Fortunately, he has promised to continue his scientific career in the Collaboration!

We are looking forward to the new leadership of Paschal Coyle and his team. All the best for executing the tremendous task ahead of building the telescopes and executing the scientific program – also in corona times. We will do our best to support you!

We virtually applauded our PhD students who have recently completed their theses and wished our postdocs leaving the Collaboration all the best for their careers!

We virtually welcomed new students and postdocs who will work on the nitty gritty of data analysis and detector calibration. We hope to meet you face-to-face very soon!

Last but not least, we virtually welcomed LPC Caen, France as a new group in the collaboration who will participate in both the construction work and the scientific program. Super!

On the bright side of virtual meetings our conference committee reported a more diverse participation of our Collaboration in the international conferences. More people took part and the representation among speakers was better balanced in seniority and gender.

Building and operating a telescope is an attractive, tremendous, collaborative effort relying on a lot of human interaction, hard to recreate in a virtual environment – but we did our best! We were still able to generate our customary Collaboration group picture as you can see below: a collaboration in corona times.

KM3NeT and ANTARES at IPHC in Strasbourg

28 September 2016 – This week, researchers of the ANTARES and KM3NeT Collaborations meet in Strasbourg, France to discuss neutrino physics and the progress of building the KM3NeT detectors ARCA and ORCA. The meeting is hosted by the ANTARES/KM3NeT research group of Thierry Pradier at the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert CURIEN (IPHC). At the end of the week the researchers will move to Mainz, Germany to meet the colleagues of the IceCube and Baikal neutrino telescopes at the annual GNN MANTS meeting to exchange the detailed knowledge about the analysis techniques and discuss future steps in neutrino physics and astronomy.

Interested to join KM3NeT? The Collaboration invites new members

23 May 2015: The KM3NeT Collaboration invites interested scientists to join the effort of building and operating the new generation neutrino telescope in the deep seas of the Mediterranean. Currently, the Collaboration is constructing the first phase of the detector. In the KM3NeT-Strategy Report 2015-05-06 you can read about the plans of the Collaboration for the next step, i.e. realising the high-energy ARCA detector at the KM3NeT-It site and the low-energy ORCA detector at the KM3NeT-Fr site.

The Collaboration is expanding – Morocco joins KM3NeT

24 Feb 2015: On 24 February, during the KM3NeT Collaboration meeting in Valencia, the Laboratory of Physics Matter and Radiations (LPMR) of the Mohammed 1st University in Oujda formally joined the KM3NeT Collaboration. Focus of the group will be at the search for monolpoles and physics with the low energy ORCA detector in KM3NeT-Fr. With LPMR, the KM3NeT Collaboration now counts 42 institutes in 12 countries. The total number of scientists in the Collaboration is about 240.