Using HOURS to evaluate very large volume undersea neutrino telescope configurations

Abstract

We have used the HOU Reconstruction & Simulation software package (HOURS) to simulate and study the performance of several detector configurations of a Very Large Volume Undersea Neutrino Telescope. In this work we consider two neutrino telescope layouts employing different types of photon detectors and local horizontal structures, deployed at different sea depths. Our results refer to the evaluation of the telescope sensitivity in observing cosmic neutrino fluxes from point-like sources. We also present results concerning the evaluation of the effective area and the angular resolution of the telescope configurations under study.