DUMAND Project

The DUMAND Project (Deep Underwater Muon And Neutrino Detector Project) was a proposed underwater

neutrino telescope to be built in the Pacific Ocean, off the shore of the island of Hawaii,^[1] five kilometers beneath the surface. It would have included thousands of strings of instruments occupying a cubic kilometer of the ocean

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Diagram illustrating the strings of sensors and detail of one of the sensors

The proposal called for two types of detectors:

false signals arising from other particles or acoustic sources. Because of the nature of the interaction between neutrinos and protons, DUMAND would have been most sensitive to ultra-high energy neutrinos, and completely insensitive to solar neutrinos

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Work began in about 1976, at

NEMO and the NESTOR Project). The DUMAND hardware was also donated to NESTOR, to reduce costs and cut on development and construction time.^[2]