NEMO-SN1 observatory developments in view of the European Research Infrastructures EMSO and KM3NET

• Published in: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Vol. 626; pp. S53 - S56
• Main Authors: Favali, Paolo, Beranzoli, Laura, Italiano, Francesco, Migneco, Emilio, Musumeci, Mario, Papaleo, Riccardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 21.01.2011
• Subjects: Accelerators; Detectors; European research infrastructures: EMSO and KM3NeT; Infrastructure; Marine; Missions; Multidisciplinary seafloor observatories; Networks; Observatories; Sea beds; Spectrometers; MED, Italy, Sicilia; ANE, Europe; MED, Ionian Sea; Multidisciplinary seafloor observatories; European research infrastructures: EMSO and KM3NeT
• ISSN: 0168-9002; 1872-9576
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.04.139

NEMO-SN1 (Western Ionian Sea off Eastern Sicily), the first real-time multiparameter observatory operating in Europe since 2005, is one of the nodes of the upcoming European ESFRI large-scale research infrastructure EMSO (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory), a network of seafloor observatories placed at marine sites on the European Continental Margin. NEMO-SN1 constitutes also an important test-site for the study of prototypes of Kilometre Cube Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT), another European ESFRI large-scale research infrastructure. Italian resources have been devoted to the development of NEMO–SN1 facilities and logistics, as with the PEGASO project, while the EC project ESONET-NoE is funding a demonstration mission and a technological test. EMSO and KM3NeT are presently in the Preparatory Phase as projects funded under the EC-FP7.