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Description
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) is a cubic-kilometre scale neutrino telescope planned to be deployed 2.6 km deep in the Pacific Ocean off Canada’s West Coast. P-ONE is designed to observe high-energy TeV to PeV astrophysical neutrinos and aims to identify their sources throughout the universe. The detector will consist of a three-dimensional lattice of optical modules instrumented along kilometre tall mooring lines. These modules measure the deposition of Cherenkov light induced by secondary particles in neutrino interactions, which is subsequently used to identify the flavour, energy, and direction of incident neutrinos. P-ONE will be deployed in phases, the first of which is P-ONE-1, the first mooring line of the telescope. To date, P-ONE-1 has been assembled and has undergone successful preliminary water testing. With the scheduled deployment of P-ONE-1 on the horizon later this summer, this talk will give a status overview of P-ONE, highlighting the design of P-ONE-1, expected performance, and plans for the future.