2000 metres under the sea in search of neutrins
In late spring 2005, Resinex was chosen by the “Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare” – INFN – (www.ct.infn.it) (Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics) as the supplier for the first two buoys of the Nemo Project.
They are modular buoys suitable to go to a depth of 3500 metres but, at the moment, used “only” to depths of 2000 metres.
The buoys were produced in Synt 3500 and checked at our new automatized plant in Torbiato di Adro (BS) and tested in modules in the nearby Resinex Marine Research Centre of Adro.
They will be positioned in the spring of 2006 off Catania (Sicily) and will take part in the hunt for neutrins supporting the complex system of “nets” created by INFN technicians.
What is Nemo
This is the first tower of the Nemo (NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory) Experiment. This activity, conceived and financed by the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, is aimed to creating an apparatus to reveal high energy neutrins coming from astrophysics sources.
The installation of the tower, which will take place in the spring of 2006, 14 miles off the Port of Catania at a depth of about 2000 metres, will represent the first operational test of such an apparatus of 1 km3 volume. The tower will then be connected by a Rov to an underwater optic electric cable coming from the INFN “Laboratori del Sud” (National Laboratories of the South) land station.
