NESTOR Project

The NESTOR Project (Neutrino Extended Submarine Telescope with Oceanographic Research Project) is an international scientific collaboration whose target is the deployment of a neutrino telescope on the sea floor off

Neutrino

Because neutrinos are very weakly interacting, neutrino detectors must be very large to detect a significant number of neutrinos. After completion, NESTOR will consist of a large number of glass balls (the "eyes") containing

Original surveys of the seafloor were conducted in 1989, 1991, 1992 and scientific conferences of the NESTOR Collaboration were held in the 1990s.

In March 2003, the NESTOR prototype was lowered to the depth of 3800 meters some 30 kilometers off the coast of Greece.^[1] The prototype's results were published in 2005.^[2][3][4]

The spokesperson for the project is

In 2014 the project was still applying funding to build the actual telescope.^[5]

The NESTOR collaboration is now (2018) part of the KM3NeT-collaboration. As such, they are not developing the NESTOR telescope anymore as its own instance, but Km3Net has a planned telescope site off the coast of Pylos (which can thus be seen as a continuation of the NESTOR project to build an underwater telescope off the coast of Pylos).^[6]

See also

• Project DUMAND
• ANTARES

References