Speaker
Description
KM3NeT is a multi-site undersea neutrino telescope, designed to detect and study cosmic neutrinos and their sources in the Universe as well as to perform measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters. In the Mediterranean Sea the ARCA (offshore Portopalo di Capo Passero, Italy) and ORCA (offshore Toulon, France) detectors are under construction, optimized for the detection of neutrinos with energies in the range of 1 TeV-100 PeV and 10 GeV-10 TeV, respectively. The construction of both detectors is well under way, with 28 and 23 detection units already installed in ARCA and ORCA respectively at the moment. In this talk we will report the main physics results obtained with ARCA and ORCA in their partial configurations, with an overview of the expected performance of the full detectors. The status and plans of construction of the detectors will be also illustrated. Finally, the KM3NeT alert system will be discussed in the context of a multi-messenger approach.
