deep underwater muon and neutrino detector [¦dēp ´ǝn·dǝr`wȯd·ǝr `myü´än an nü`trē·nō di´tek·tǝr] ENGINEERING A proposed device for detecting and determining the direction of extraterrestrial neutrinos passing through a volume of approximately 1 cubic kilometer of ocean water, using an array of several thousand Cerenkov counters suspended in the water to sense the showers of charged particles generated by neutrinos. Abbreviated DUMAND. |