NESTOR: A neutrino particle astrophysics underwater laboratory for the Mediterranean

Abstract An underwater neutrino astrophysics laboratory, to be located in the international waters off the Southwest of Greece, near the town of Pylos is now under construction. In the last two years a group of physicists from Greece and Russia have carried out two demonstration experiments in 4km deep water, counting muons and verifying the adequacy of the deep sea site. Plans are presented for a 100, 000 m 2 high energy neutrino detector composed of a hexagon of hexagonal towers, with 1176 optical detector units. A progress report is given and the physics potential of a siggle tower with 168 phototubes (currently under construction) is described

NESTOR - A NEUTRINO PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS UNDERWATER LABORATORY FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN

An underwater neutrino astrophysics laboratory, to be located in the international waters off the Southwest of Greece, near the town of Pylos is now under construction. In the last two years a group of physicists from Greece and Russia have carried out two demonstration experiments in 4km deep water, counting muons and verifying the adequacy of the deep sea site. Plans are presented for a 100,000 m2 high energy neutrino detector composed of a hexagon of hexagonal towers, with 1176 optical detector units. A progress report is given and the physics potential of a single tower with 168 phototubes (currently under construction) is described

PRODUCTION OF J/PSI VIA PSI' AND CHI DECAY IN 300-GEV/C PROTON-NUCLEON AND PI+/--NUCLEON INTERACTIONS

The production of the chi2 and chi2 states of charmonium has been observed in 300 GeV/c pi+/-N and pN interactions. The fraction of the total inclusive J/psi production due to radiative chi decay has been determined to be 0.40 +/- 0.04, 0.37 +/- 0.03, and 0.30 +/- 0.04 for the pi+, pi-, and proton data, respectively. Total cross sections for chi1 and chi2 production of 131 +/- 18 +/- 14 and 188 +/- 30 +/- 21 nb/nucleon in the 300 GeV/c pi-N interactions have been obtained. By measuring the contributions to the J/psi production due to both psi’ and radiative chi decay, the cross sections for direct J/psi production have been determined to be 97 +/- 14, 102 +/- 14, and 89 +/- 12 nb/nucleon for pi+, pi-, and protons, respectively

MEASUREMENT OF J/PSI AND PSI' PRODUCTION IN 300-GEV/C PROTON, ANTIPROTON, AND PI+/- INTERACTIONS WITH NUCLEI

Hadroproduction of the J/psi and psi’ states has been studied in 300-GeV/c proton, antiproton, and pi+-Li interactions. Both total and differential cross sections in x(F) and p(T) have been measured for the J/psi for the pi+-, proton, and antiproton interactions. The ratio of psi’ to J/psi production has been determined for the four types of beam particles