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1. Studying Bioluminescence Flashes with the ANTARES Deep Sea Neutrino Telescope

Author: Reeb, N., Hutschenreuter, S., Zehetner, P., Ensslin, T., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., Jong, M. d., Jong, P. d., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Abstract: We develop a novel technique to exploit the extensive data sets provided by underwater neutrino telescopes to gain information on bioluminescence in the deep sea. The passive nature of the telescopes gives us the unique opportunity to infer information on bioluminescent organisms without actively interfering with them. We propose a statistical method that allows us to reconstruct the light emission of individual organisms, as well as their location and movement. A mathematical model is built to describe the measurement process of underwater neutrino telescopes and the signal generation of the biological organisms. The Metric Gaussian Variational Inference algorithm is used to reconstruct the model parameters using photon counts recorded by the neutrino detectors. We apply this method to synthetic data sets and data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The telescope is located 40 km off the French coast and fixed to the sea floor at a depth of 2475 m. The runs with synthetic data reveal that we can reliably model the emitted bioluminescent flashes of the organisms. Furthermore, we find that the spatial resolution of the localization of light sources highly depends on the configuration of the telescope. Precise measurements of the efficiencies of the detectors and the attenuation length of the water are crucial to reconstruct the light emission. Finally, the application to ANTARES data reveals the first precise localizations of bioluminescent organisms using neutrino telescope data.
Published: 2021

2. Search for neutrinos from the tidal disruption events AT2019dsg and AT2019fdr with the ANTARES telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., García, R., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: On October 1, 2019, the IceCube Collaboration detected a muon track neutrino with high probability of being of astrophysical origin, IC191001A. After a few hours, the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2019dsg, observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), was indicated as the most likely counterpart of the IceCube track. More recently, the follow-up campaign of the IceCube alerts by ZTF suggested a second TDE, AT2019fdr, as a promising counterpart of another IceCube muon track candidate, IC200530A, detected on May 30, 2020. These are the second and third associations between astrophysical sources and high-energy neutrinos after the compelling identification of the blazar TXS 0506+056. Here, the search for ANTARES neutrinos from the directions of AT2019dsg and AT2019fdr using a time-integrated approach is presented. As no significant evidence for space clustering is found in the ANTARES data, upper limits on the one-flavour neutrino flux and fluence are set., Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure
Published: 2021
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3. Measurement of the atmospheric $\nu_e$ and $\nu_\mu$ energy spectra with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., García, R., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nunez-Castineyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Pă, G. E., vă, laş, Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúniga, J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: This letter presents a combined measurement of the energy spectra of atmospheric $\nu_e$ and $\nu_\mu$ in the energy range between $\sim$100 GeV and $\sim$50 TeV with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The analysis uses 3012 days of detector livetime in the period 2007--2017, and selects 1016 neutrinos interacting in (or close to) the instrumented volume of the detector, yielding shower-like events (mainly from $\nu_e+\overline \nu_e$ charged current plus all neutrino neutral current interactions) and starting track events (mainly from $\nu_\mu + \overline \nu_\mu$ charged current interactions). The contamination by atmospheric muons in the final sample is suppressed at the level of a few per mill by different steps in the selection analysis, including a Boosted Decision Tree classifier. The distribution of reconstructed events is unfolded in terms of electron and muon neutrino fluxes. The derived energy spectra are compared with previous measurements that, above 100 GeV, are limited to experiments in polar ice and, for $\nu_\mu$, to Super-Kamiokande., Comment: Accepted to PLB
Published: 2021
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4. ANTARES search for point-sources of neutrinos using astrophysical catalogs: a likelihood stacking analysis

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Branzas, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Diaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N., Enzenhofer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Hössl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., Jong, M., Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Mazzou, S., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nunez-Castineyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Palavas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Greus, F., Samtleben, D. F., Sanchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schussler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., Zuniga, J., and Buson, S.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: A search for astrophysical point-like neutrino sources using the data collected by the ANTARES detector between January 29, 2007 and December 31, 2017 is presented. A likelihood stacking method is used to assess the significance of an excess of muon neutrinos inducing track-like events in correlation with the location of a list of possible sources. Different sets of objects are tested in the analysis: a) a sub-sample of the \textit{Fermi} 3LAC catalog of blazars, b) a jet-obscured AGN population, c) a sample of soft gamma-ray selected radio galaxies, d) a star-forming galaxy catalog , and e) a public sample of 56 very-high-energy track events from the IceCube experiment. None of the tested sources shows a significant association with the sample of neutrinos detected by ANTARES. The smallest p-value is obtained for the radio galaxies catalog with an equal weights hypothesis, with a pre-trial p-value equivalent to a $2.8 \, \sigma$ excess, equivalent to $1.6 \, \sigma$ post-trial. In addition, the results of a dedicated analysis for the blazar MG3 J225517+2409 are also reported: this source is found to be the most significant within the \textit{Fermi} 3LAC sample, with 5 ANTARES events located at less than one degree from the source. This blazar showed evidence of flaring activity in \textit{Fermi} data, in space-time coincidence with a high-energy track detected by IceCube. An \emph{a posteriori} significance of $2.0\, \sigma$ for the combination of ANTARES and IceCube data is reported.
Published: 2020
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5. ANTARES upper limits on the multi-TeV neutrino emission from the GRBs detected by IACTs

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., García, R., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mazzou, S., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nuñez-Castiñeyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The first gamma-ray burst detections by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have been recently announced: GRB 190114C, detected by MAGIC, GRB 180720B and GRB 190829A, observed by H.E.S.S. A dedicated search for neutrinos in space and time coincidence with the gamma-ray emission observed by IACTs has been performed using ANTARES data. The search covers both the prompt and afterglow phases, yielding no neutrinos in coincidence with the three GRBs studied. Upper limits on the energetics of the neutrino emission are inferred. The resulting upper limits are several orders of magnitude above the observed gamma-ray emission, and they do not allow to constrain the available models., Comment: accepted for publication in JCAP
Published: 2020
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6. Monte Carlo simulations for the ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope

Author: The ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Branzas, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Cecchini, S., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Diaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhofer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Hossl, J., Hofestadt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefevre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Mazzou, S., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nunez-Castineyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Pavalas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Salesa, F., Sanchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schussler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Strandberg, B., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zuniga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Monte Carlo simulations are a unique tool to check the response of a detector and to monitor its performance. For a deep-sea neutrino telescope, the variability of the environmental conditions that can affect the behaviour of the data acquisition system must be considered, in addition to a reliable description of the active parts of the detector and of the features of physics events, in order to produce a realistic set of simulated events. In this paper, the software tools used to produce neutrino and cosmic ray signatures in the telescope and the strategy developed to represent the time evolution of the natural environment and of the detector efficiency are described., Comment: 24 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2020
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7. Constraining the contribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts to the high-energy diffuse neutrino flux with 10 years of ANTARES data

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eber, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mazzou, S., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nuñez-Castiñeyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabe, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Strandberg, B., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Addressing the origin of the astrophysical neutrino flux observed by IceCube is of paramount importance. Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the few astrophysical sources capable of achieving the required energy to contribute to such neutrino flux through p$\gamma$ interactions. In this work, ANTARES data have been used to search for upward going muon neutrinos in spatial and temporal coincidence with 784 GRBs occurred from 2007 to 2017. For each GRB, the expected neutrino flux has been calculated in the framework of the internal shock model and the impact of the lack of knowledge on the majority of source redshifts and on other intrinsic parameters of the emission mechanism has been quantified. It is found that the model parameters that set the radial distance where shock collisions occur have the largest impact on neutrino flux expectations. In particular, the bulk Lorentz factor of the source ejecta and the minimum variability timescale are found to contribute significantly to the GRB-neutrino flux uncertainty. For the selected sources, ANTARES data have been analysed, by maximising the discovery probability of the stacking sample through an extended maximum-likelihood strategy. Since no neutrino event passed the quality cuts set by the optimisation procedure, 90\% confidence level upper limits (with their uncertainty) on the total expected diffuse neutrino flux have been derived, according to the model. The GRB contribution to the observed diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux around 100 TeV is constrained to be less than 10\%., Comment: Accepted to MNRAS
Published: 2020
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8. Observation of the cosmic ray shadow of the Sun with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma1, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eber, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nielsen, C., Nuñez-Castiñeyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabe, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Strandberg, B., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The ANTARES detector is an undersea neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. The search for point-like neutrino sources is one of the main goals of the ANTARES telescope, requiring a reliable method to evaluate the detector angular resolution and pointing accuracy. This work describes the study of the Sun "shadow" effect with the ANTARES detector. The shadow is the deficit in the atmospheric muon flux in the direction of the Sun caused by the absorption of the primary cosmic rays. This analysis is based on the data collected between 2008 and 2017 by the ANTARES telescope. The observed statistical significance of the Sun shadow detection is $3.7\sigma$, with an estimated angular resolution of $0.59^\circ\pm0.10^\circ$ for downward-going muons. The pointing accuracy is found to be consistent with the expectations and no evidence of systematic pointing shifts is observed., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2020
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9. Combined search for neutrinos from dark matter self-annihilation in the Galactic Centre with ANTARES and IceCube

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nielsen, C., Nuñez-Castiñeyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Strandberg, B., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Collaboration, IceCube, Aartsen, M. G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Alispach, C., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Anton, G., Argüelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Bagherpour, H., Bai, X., V., A. Balagopal, Barbano, A., Barwick, S. W., Bastian, B., Baum, V., Baur, S., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Becker, K. -H., Tjus, J. Becker, BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Böser, S., Botner, O., Böttcher, J., Bourbeau, E., Bourbeau, J., Bradascio, F., Braun, J., Bron, S., Brostean-Kaiser, J., Burgman, A., Buscher, J., Busse, R. S., Carver, T., Chen, C., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Choi, S., Clark, B. A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coleman, A., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Coppin, P., Correa, P., Cowen, D. F., Cross, R., Dave, P., De Clercq, C., DeLaunay, J. J., Dembinski, H., Deoskar, K., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Diaz, A., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dujmovic, H., Dunkman, M., Dvorak, E., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eller, P., Engel, R., Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fox, D., Franckowiak, A., Friedman, E., Fritz, A., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Ganster, E., Garrappa, S., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Glauch, T., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Gonzalez, J. G., Grant, D., Grégoire, T., Griffith, Z., Griswold, S., Günder, M., Gündüz, M., Haack, C., Hallgren, A., Halliday, R., Halve, L., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Haungs, A., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Heix, P., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Henningsen, F., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Hoinka, T., Hokanson-Fasig, B., Hoshina, K., Huber, M., Huber, T., Hultqvist, K., Hünnefeld, M., Hussain, R., In, S., Iovine, N., Ishihara, A., Jansson, M., Japaridze, G. S., Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J. P., Jonske, F., Joppe, R., Kang, D., Kang, W., Kappes, A., Kappesser, D., Karg, T., Karl, M., Karle, A., Kauer, M., Kellermann, M., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kim, J., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. R., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Krückl, G., Kulacz, N., Kurahashi, N., Kyriacou, A., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larson, M. J., Lauber, F., Lazar, J. P., Leonard, K., Leszczyńska, A., Liu, Q. R., Lohfink, E., Mariscal, C. J. Lozano, Lu, L., Lucarelli, F., Ludwig, A., Lünemann, J., Luszczak, W., Lyu, Y., Ma, W. Y., Madsen, J., Mahn, K. B. M., Makino, Y., Mallik, P., Mallot, K., Mancina, S., Mariş, I. C., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Maunu, R., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Medina, A., Meier, M., Meighen-Berger, S., Merino, G., Meures, T., Micallef, J., Mockler, D., Momenté, G., Montaruli, T., Moore, R. W., Morse, R., Moulai, M., Muth, P., Nagai, R., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Nguyen, L. V., Niederhausen, H., Nisa, M. U., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Pollmann, A. Obertacke, Oehler, M., Olivas, A., O'Murchadha, A., O'Sullivan, E., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V., Park, N., Peiffer, P., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Philippen, S., Pieloth, D., Pieper, S., Pinat, E., Pizzuto, A., Plum, M., Porcelli, A., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Raab, C., Raissi, A., Rameez, M., Rauch, L., Rawlins, K., Rea, I. C., Rehman, A., Reimann, R., Relethford, B., Renschler, M., Renzi, G., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Cantu, D. Rysewyk, Safa, I., Herrera, S. E. Sanchez, Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Schaufel, M., Schieler, H., Schlunder, P., Schmidt, T., Schneider, A., Schneider, J., Schröder, F. G., Schumacher, L., Sclafani, S., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Shefali, S., Silva, M., Snihur, R., Soedingrekso, J., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stachurska, J., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stein, R., Stettner, J., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stö\s{s}l, A., Strotjohann, N. L., Stürwald, T., Stuttard, T., Sullivan, G. W., Taboada, I., Tenholt, F., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tilav, S., Tollefson, K., Tomankova, L., Tönnis, C., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Trettin, A., Tselengidou, M., Tung, C. F., Turcati, A., Turcotte, R., Turley, C. F., Ty, B., Unger, E., Elorrieta, M. A. Unland, Usner, M., Vandenbroucke, J., Van Driessche, W., van Eijk, D., van Eijndhoven, N., van Santen, J., Verpoest, S., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandkowsky, N., Watson, T. B., Weaver, C., Weindl, A., Weiss, M. J., Weldert, J., Wendt, C., Werthebach, J., Whelan, B. J., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wille, L., Williams, D. R., Wills, L., Wolf, M., Wood, J., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Wrede, G., Wulff, J., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Yuan, T., and Zöcklein, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the results of the first combined dark matter search targeting the Galactic Centre using the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. For dark matter particles with masses from 50 to 1000 GeV, the sensitivities on the self-annihilation cross section set by ANTARES and IceCube are comparable, making this mass range particularly interesting for a joint analysis. Dark matter self-annihilation through the $\tau^+\tau^-$, $\mu^+\mu^-$, $b\bar{b}$ and $W^+W^-$ channels is considered for both the Navarro-Frenk-White and Burkert halo profiles. In the combination of 2,101.6 days of ANTARES data and 1,007 days of IceCube data, no excess over the expected background is observed. Limits on the thermally-averaged dark matter annihilation cross section $\langle\sigma_A\upsilon\rangle$ are set. These limits present an improvement of up to a factor of two in the studied dark matter mass range with respect to the individual limits published by both collaborations. When considering dark matter particles with a mass of 200 GeV annihilating through the $\tau^+\tau^-$ channel, the value obtained for the limit is $7.44 \times 10^{-24} \text{cm}^{3}\text{s}^{-1}$ for the Navarro-Frenk-White halo profile. For the purpose of this joint analysis, the model parameters and the likelihood are unified, providing a benchmark for forthcoming dark matter searches performed by neutrino telescopes.
Published: 2020
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10. Search for neutrino counterparts of gravitational-wave events detected by LIGO and Virgo during run O2 with the ANTARES telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nielsen, C., Nuñez-Castiñeyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Strandberg, B., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: An offline search for a neutrino counterpart to gravitational-wave (GW) events detected during the second observation run (O2) of Advanced-LIGO and Advanced-Virgo performed with ANTARES data is presented. In addition to the search for long tracks induced by $\nu_\mu$ ($\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$) charged current interactions, a search for showering events induced by interactions of neutrinos of any flavour is conducted. The severe spatial and time coincidence provided by the gravitational-wave alert allows regions above the detector horizon to be probed, extending the ANTARES sensitivity over the entire sky. The results of this all-neutrino-flavour and all-sky time dependent analysis are presented. The search for prompt neutrino emission within $\pm$500~s around the time of six GW events yields no neutrino counterparts. Upper limits on the neutrino spectral fluence and constraints on the isotropic radiated energy are set for each GW event analysed.
Published: 2020
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11. ANTARES and IceCube Combined Search for Neutrino Point-like and Extended Sources in the Southern Sky

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nielsen, C., Nuñez-Castiñeyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Randazzo, N., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Salah-Eddine, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Strandberg, B., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Collaboration, IceCube, Aartsen, M. G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Alispach, C., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Argüelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Backes, P., Bagherpour, H., Bai, X., V., A. Balagopal, Barbano, A., Barwick, S. W., Bastian, B., Baum, V., Baur, S., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Becker, K. -H., Tjus, J. Becker, BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Böser, S., Botner, O., Böttcher, J., Bourbeau, E., Bourbeau, J., Bradascio, F., Braun, J., Bron, S., Brostean-Kaiser, J., Burgman, A., Buscher, J., Busse, R. S., Carver, T., Chen, C., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Choi, S., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coleman, A., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Coppin, P., Correa, P., Cowen, D. F., Cross, R., Dave, P., De Clercq, C., DeLaunay, J. J., Dembinski, H., Deoskar, K., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Diaz, A., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dujmovic, H., Dunkman, M., Dvorak, E., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eller, P., Engel, R., Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fox, D., Franckowiak, A., Friedman, E., Fritz, A., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Ganster, E., Garrappa, S., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Glauch, T., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Gonzalez, J. G., Grant, D., Grégoire, T., Griffith, Z., Griswold, S., Günder, M., Gündüz, M., Haack, C., Hallgren, A., Halliday, R., Halve, L., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Haungs, A., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Heix, P., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Henningsen, F., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Hoinka, T., Hokanson-Fasig, B., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huber, M., Huber, T., Hultqvist, K., Hünnefeld, M., Hussain, R., In, S., Iovine, N., Ishihara, A., Jansson, M., Japaridze, G. S., Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J. P., Jonske, F., Joppe, R., Kang, D., Kang, W., Kappes, A., Kappesser, D., Karg, T., Karl, M., Karle, A., Kauer, M., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kim, J., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. R., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Krückl, G., Kulacz, N., Kurahashi, N., Kyriacou, A., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larson, M. J., Lauber, F., Lazar, J. P., Leonard, K., Leszczyńska, A., Leuermann, M., Liu, Q. R., Lohfink, E., Mariscal, C. J. Lozano, Lu, L., Lucarelli, F., Lünemann, J., Luszczak, W., Lyu, Y., Ma, W. Y., Madsen, J., Mahn, K. B. M., Makino, Y., Mallik, P., Mallot, K., Mancina, S., Mariş, I. C., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Maunu, R., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Medina, A., Meier, M., Meighen-Berger, S., Merino, G., Meures, T., Micallef, J., Mockler, D., Momenté, G., Montaruli, T., Moore, R. W., Morse, R., Moulai, M., Muth, P., Nagai, R., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Niederhausen, H., Nisa, M. U., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Pollmann, A. Obertacke, Oehler, M., Olivas, A., O'Murchadha, A., O'Sullivan, E., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V., Park, N., Peiffer, P., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Philippen, S., Pieloth, D., Pieper, S., Pinat, E., Pizzuto, A., Plum, M., Porcelli, A., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Raab, C., Raissi, A., Rameez, M., Rauch, L., Rawlins, K., Rea, I. C., Reimann, R., Relethford, B., Renschler, M., Renzi, G., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Rysewyk, D., Safa, I., Herrera, S. E. Sanchez, Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Schaufel, M., Schieler, H., Schlunder, P., Schmidt, T., Schneider, A., Schneider, J., Schröder, F. G., Schumacher, L., Sclafani, S., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Shefali, S., Silva, M., Snihur, R., Soedingrekso, J., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stachurska, J., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stein, R., Stettner, J., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Strotjohann, N. L., Stürwald, T., Stuttard, T., Sullivan, G. W., Taboada, I., Tenholt, F., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tilav, S., Tollefson, K., Tomankova, L., Tönnis, C., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Trettin, A., Tselengidou, M., Tung, C. F., Turcati, A., Turcotte, R., Turley, C. F., Ty, B., Unger, E., Elorrieta, M. A. Unland, Usner, M., Vandenbroucke, J., Van Driessche, W., van Eijk, D., van Eijndhoven, N., van Santen, J., Verpoest, S., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandkowsky, N., Watson, T. B., Weaver, C., Weindl, A., Weiss, M. J., Weldert, J., Wendt, C., Werthebach, J., Whelan, B. J., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wille, L., Williams, D. R., Wills, L., Wolf, M., Wood, J., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Wrede, G., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Yuan, T., and Zöcklein, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: A search for point-like and extended sources of cosmic neutrinos using data collected by the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes is presented. The data set consists of all the track-like and shower-like events pointing in the direction of the Southern Sky included in the nine-year ANTARES point-source analysis, combined with the through-going track-like events used in the seven-year IceCube point-source search. The advantageous field of view of ANTARES and the large size of IceCube are exploited to improve the sensitivity in the Southern Sky by a factor $\sim$2 compared to both individual analyses. In this work, the Southern Sky is scanned for possible excesses of spatial clustering, and the positions of preselected candidate sources are investigated. In addition, special focus is given to the region around the Galactic Centre, whereby a dedicated search at the location of SgrA* is performed, and to the location of the supernova remnant RXJ 1713.7-3946. No significant evidence for cosmic neutrino sources is found and upper limits on the flux from the various searches are presented.
Published: 2020
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12. KM3NeT front-end and readout electronics system: hardware, firmware and software

Author: The KM3NeT Collaboration, Aiello, S., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Barbarino, G., Baret, B., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Belias, A., Berbee, E., Berg, A. M. van den, Bertin, V., van Beveren, V., Biagi, S., Biagioni, A., Bianucci, S., Billault, M., Bissinger, M., Bos, P., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouta, M., Bouvet, G., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Brânzaş, H., Briel, M., Bruchner, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, N., Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, B., Coleiro, A., Molla, M. Colomer, Colonges, S., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., D'Amato, C., D'Amico, A., D'Onofrio, A., Dallier, R., De Palma, M., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donà, R., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Durocher, M., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Eljarrari, H., Elsaesser, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Fusco, L. A., Gajanana, D., Gal, T., Soto, A. Garcia, Garufi, F., Gialanella, L., Giorgio, E., Giuliante, A., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grasso, D., Grégoire, T., Grella, G., Guderian, D., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., Hamdaoui, H., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Santiago, E. Huesca, Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jansweijer, P., Jongen, M., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, van der Knaap, F., Koffeman, E. N., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kulikovskiy, V., K., Meghna K., Lahmann, R., Larosa, G., Breton, R. Le, Leone, F., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lonardo, A., Longhitano, F., Lopez-Coto, D., Maggi, G., Mańczak, J., Mannheim, K., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martignac, G., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mazzou, S., Mele, R., Melis, K. W., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miranda, L. S., Mollo, C. M., Morganti, M., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Musico, P., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Nielsen, C., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Organokov, M., Orlando, A., Panagopoulos, V., Papalashvili, G., Papaleo, R., Pastore, C., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrini, G., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pikounis, K., Pisanti, O., Poirè, C., Polydefki, G., Popa, V., Post, M., Pradier, T., Pühlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Quinn, L., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Rapicavoli, A., Razzaque, S., Real, D., Reck, S., Reubelt, J., Riccobene, G., Richer, M., Rigalleau, L., Rovelli, A., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schmelling, J., Schnabel, J., Sciacca, V., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Simeone, F., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Steijger, J., Stellacci, S. M., Strandberg, B., Stransky, D., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tenllado, E., Thakore, T., Timmer, P., Tingay, S., Tzamariudaki, E., Tzanetatos, D., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., de Wasseige, G., Wilms, J., Wojaczyński, R., de Wolf, E., Zaborov, D., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The KM3NeT research infrastructure being built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea will host water-Cherenkov telescopes for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The neutrino telescopes will consist of large volume three-dimensional grids of optical modules to detect the Cherenkov light from charged particles produced by neutrino-induced interactions. Each optical module houses 31 3-inch photomultiplier tubes, instrumentation for calibration of the photomultiplier signal and positioning of the optical module and all associated electronics boards. By design, the total electrical power consumption of an optical module has been capped at seven watts. This paper presents an overview of the front-end and readout electronics system inside the optical module, which has been designed for a 1~ns synchronization between the clocks of all optical modules in the grid during a life time of at least 20 years., Comment: Prepared submission to Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS)
Published: 2019

13. Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units

Author: KM3NeT Collaboration, Ageron, M., Aiello, S., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Barbarino, G., Baret, B., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Belias, A., Berbee, E., Berg, A. M. van den, Bertin, V., van Beveren, V., Biagi, S., Biagioni, A., Bianucci, S., Billault, M., Bissinger, M., de Boer, R., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Brânzaş, H., Briel, M., Bruchner, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Cacopardo, G., Caillat, L., Calì, C., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, N., Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Molla, M. Colomer, Colonges, S., Coniglione, R., Cosquer, A., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., D'Amato, C., D'Amico, A., D'Onofrio, A., Dallier, R., De Palma, M., De Sio, C., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donà, R., Donzaud, C., van Dooren, L., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Durocher, M., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Eljarrari, H., Elsaesser, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Fusco, L. A., Gajanana, D., Gal, T., Soto, A. Garcia, Garufi, F., Gialanella, L., Giorgio, E., Giuliante, A., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grasso, D., Grégoire, T., Grella, G., Grimaldi, A., Grmek, A., Guderian, D., Guerzoni, M., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., Hamdaoui, H., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Henry, S., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Santiago, E. Huesca, Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jansweijer, P., Jongen, M., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Kayzel, F., Keller, P., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, van der Knaap, F., Koffeman, E. N., Kooijman, P., Koopstra, J., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kulikovskiy, V., K., Meghna K., Lahmann, R., Lamare, P., Larosa, G., Laurence, J., Breton, R. Le, Leone, F., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Librizzi, F., Lincetto, M., Litrico, P., Alvarez, C. D. Llorens, Lonardo, A., Longhitano, F., Lopez-Coto, D., Maggi, G., Mańczak, J., Mannheim, K., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mele, R., Melis, K. W., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miranda, L. S., Mollo, C. M., Mongelli, M., Morganti, M., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Musico, P., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Nielsen, C., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Organokov, M., Orlando, A., Panagopoulos, V., Pancaldi, G., Papalashvili, G., Papaleo, R., Pastore, C., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrini, G., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pikounis, K., Pisanti, O., Poirè, C., Polydefki, G., Popa, V., Post, M., Pradier, T., Pühlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Quinn, L., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Rapicavoli, A., Razzaque, S., Real, D., Reck, S., Reubelt, J., Riccobene, G., Rigalleau, L., Rizza, G., Rocco, R., Rovelli, A., Royon, J., Salemi, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schmelling, J., Sciacca, V., Sciliberto, D., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Simeone, F., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Steijger, J., Stellacci, S. M., Strandberg, B., Stransky, D., Stüven, T., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tenllado, E., Tézier, D., Thakore, T., Theraube, S., Timmer, P., Tingay, S., Trovato, A., Tsagkli, S., Tzamariudaki, E., Tzanetatos, D., Valieri, C., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., de Wasseige, G., Wilms, J., Wojaczyński, R., de Wolf, E., Zaborov, D., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collaboration aims at identifying and studying TeV-PeV astrophysical neutrino sources. With the other detector (ORCA), the neutrino mass ordering will be determined by studying GeV-scale atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The first KM3NeT detection units were deployed at the Italian and French sites between 2015 and 2017. In this paper, a description of the detector is presented, together with a summary of the procedures used to calibrate the detector in-situ. Finally, the measurement of the atmospheric muon flux between 2232-3386 m seawater depth is obtained., Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2019
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14. A Search for Cosmic Neutrino and Gamma-Ray Emitting Transients in 7.3 Years of ANTARES and Fermi LAT Data

Author: Solares, H. A. Ayala, Cowen, D. F., DeLaunay, J. J., Fox, D. B., Keivani, A., Mostafá, M., Murase, K., Turley, C. F., Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Barrios-Martı, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Dı'az, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donà, R., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martınez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nielsen, C., Nuñez, A., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Randazzo, N., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Salah-Eddine, A., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We analyze 7.3 years of ANTARES high-energy neutrino and Fermi LAT {\gamma}-ray data in search of cosmic neutrino + {\gamma}-ray ({\nu}+{\gamma}) transient sources or source populations. Our analysis has the potential to detect either individual {\nu}+{\gamma} transient sources (durations {\delta}t < 1000~s), if they exhibit sufficient {\gamma}-ray or neutrino multiplicity, or a statistical excess of {\nu}+{\gamma} transients of lower multiplicities. Treating ANTARES track and cascade event types separately, we establish detection thresholds by Monte Carlo scrambling of the neutrino data, and determine our analysis sensitivity by signal injection against scrambled datasets. We find our analysis is sensitive to {\nu}+{\gamma} transient populations responsible for $>$5\% of the observed gamma-coincident neutrinos in the track data at 90\% confidence. Applying our analysis to the unscrambled data reveals no individual {\nu}+{\gamma} events of high significance; two ANTARES track + Fermi {\gamma}-ray events are identified that exceed a once per decade false alarm rate threshold ($p=17\%$). No evidence for subthreshold {\nu}+{\gamma} source populations is found among the track ($p=39\%$) or cascade ($p=60\%$) events. While TXS 0506+056, a blazar and variable (non-transient) Fermi {\gamma}-ray source, has recently been identified as the first source of high-energy neutrinos, the challenges in reconciling observations of the Fermi {\gamma}-ray sky, the IceCube high-energy cosmic neutrinos, and ultra-high energy cosmic rays using only blazars suggest a significant contribution by other source populations. Searches for transient sources of high-energy neutrinos remain interesting, with the potential for neutrino clustering or multimessenger coincidence searches to lead to discovery of the first {\nu}+{\gamma} transients., Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2019
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15. ANTARES neutrino search for time and space correlations with IceCube high-energy neutrino events

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donà, R., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, yati, N. El Kha, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., tahiri, A. E, Fassi, F., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nielsen, C., Nuñez, A., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Randazzo, N., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Salah-Eddine, A., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: In the past years, the IceCube Collaboration has reported in several analyses the observation of astrophysical high-energy neutrino events. Despite a compelling evidence for the first identification of a neutrino source, TXS 0506+056, the origin of the majority of these events is still unknown. In this paper, a possible transient origin of the IceCube astrophysical events is searched for using neutrino events detected by the ANTARES telescope. The arrival time and direction of 6894 track-like and 160 shower-like events detected over 2346 days of livetime are examined to search for coincidences with 54 IceCube high-energy track-like neutrino events, by means of a maximum likelihood method. No significant correlation is observed and upper limits on the one-flavour neutrino fluence from the direction of the IceCube candidates are derived. The non-observation of time and space correlation within the time window of 0.1 days with the two most energetic IceCube events constrains the spectral index of a possible point-like transient neutrino source, to be harder than $-2.3$ and $-2.4$ for each event, respectively., Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2019
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16. Combined search for neutrinos from dark matter self-annihilation in the Galactic Center with ANTARES and IceCube

Author: Albert, A, Andre, M, Anghinolfi, M, Ardid, M, Aubert, J-J, Aublin, J, Baret, B, Basa, S, Belhorma, B, Bertin, V, Biagi, S, Bissinger, M, Boumaaza, J, Bouta, M, Bouwhuis, MC, Branzas, H, Bruijn, R, Brunner, J, Busto, J, Capone, A, Caramete, L, Carr, J, Celli, S, Chabab, M, Chau, TN, El Moursli, R Cherkaoui, Chiarusi, T, Circella, M, Coleiro, A, Colomer, M, Coniglione, R, Coyle, P, Creusot, A, Diaz, AF, Deschamps, A, Distefano, C, Di Palma, I, Domi, A, Donzaud, C, Dornic, D, Drouhin, D, Eberl, T, El Khayati, N, Enzenhoefer, A, Ettahiri, A, Fermani, P, Ferrara, G, Filippini, F, Fusco, L, Gay, P, Glotin, H, Gozzini, R, Ruiz, R Gracia, Graf, K, Guidi, C, Hallmann, S, van Haren, H, Heijboer, AJ, Hello, Y, Hernandez-Rey, JJ, Hoessl, J, Hofestaedt, J, Huang, F, Illuminati, G, James, CW, de Jong, M, de Jong, P, Jongen, M, Kadler, M, Kalekin, O, Katz, U, Khan-Chowdhury, NR, Kouchner, A, Kreykenbohm, I, Kulikovskiy, V, Lahmann, R, Le Breton, R, Lefevre, D, Leonora, E, Levi, G, Lincetto, M, Lopez-Coto, D, Loucatos, S, Maggi, G, Manczak, J, Marcelin, M, Margiotta, A, Marinelli, A, Martinez-Mora, JA, Mele, R, Melis, K, Migliozzi, P, Moser, M, Moussa, A, Muller, R, Nauta, L, Navas, S, Nezri, E, Nielsen, C, and Nunez-Castineyra, A
Subjects: astro-ph.HE
Abstract: We present the results of the first combined dark matter search targeting theGalactic Centre using the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. For darkmatter particles with masses from 50 to 1000 GeV, the sensitivities on theself-annihilation cross section set by ANTARES and IceCube are comparable,making this mass range particularly interesting for a joint analysis. Darkmatter self-annihilation through the $\tau^+\tau^-$, $\mu^+\mu^-$, $b\bar{b}$and $W^+W^-$ channels is considered for both the Navarro-Frenk-White andBurkert halo profiles. In the combination of 2,101.6 days of ANTARES data and1,007 days of IceCube data, no excess over the expected background is observed.Limits on the thermally-averaged dark matter annihilation cross section$\langle\sigma_A\upsilon\rangle$ are set. These limits present an improvementof up to a factor of two in the studied dark matter mass range with respect tothe individual limits published by both collaborations. When considering darkmatter particles with a mass of 200 GeV annihilating through the $\tau^+\tau^-$channel, the value obtained for the limit is $7.44 \times 10^{-24}\text{cm}^{3}\text{s}^{-1}$ for the Navarro-Frenk-White halo profile. For thepurpose of this joint analysis, the model parameters and the likelihood areunified, providing a benchmark for forthcoming dark matter searches performedby neutrino telescopes.
Published: 2020

17. ANTARES and IceCube Combined Search for Neutrino Point-like and Extended Sources in the Southern Sky

Author: Albert, A, André, M, Anghinolfi, M, Anton, G, Ardid, M, Aubert, JJ, Aublin, J, Baret, B, Basa, S, Belhorma, B, Bertin, V, Biagi, S, Bissinger, M, Boumaaza, J, Bourret, S, Bouta, M, Bouwhuis, MC, Brânzaş, H, Bruijn, R, Brunner, J, Busto, J, Capone, A, Caramete, L, Carr, J, Celli, S, Chabab, M, Chau, TN, El Moursli, RC, Chiarusi, T, Circella, M, Coleiro, A, Colomer, M, Coniglione, R, Costantini, H, Coyle, P, Creusot, A, Diáz, AF, Wasseige, GD, Deschamps, A, Distefano, C, Palma, ID, Domi, A, Donzaud, C, Dornic, D, Drouhin, D, Eberl, T, Bojaddaini, IE, Khayati, NE, Elsässer, D, Enzenhöfer, A, Ettahiri, A, Fassi, F, Fermani, P, Ferrara, G, Filippini, F, Fusco, L, Gay, P, Glotin, H, Gozzini, R, Ruiz, RG, Graf, K, Guidi, C, Hallmann, S, Van Haren, H, Heijboer, AJ, Hello, Y, Hernández-Rey, JJ, Hößl, J, Hofestädt, J, Illuminati, G, James, CW, Jong, MD, Jong, PD, Jongen, M, Kadler, M, Kalekin, O, Katz, U, Khan-Chowdhury, NR, Kouchner, A, Kreter, M, Kreykenbohm, I, Kulikovskiy, V, Lahmann, R, Breton, RL, Lefèvre, D, Leonora, E, Levi, G, Lincetto, M, Lopez-Coto, D, Loucatos, S, Maggi, G, Manczak, J, Marcelin, M, Margiotta, A, Marinelli, A, Martínez-Mora, JA, Mele, R, Melis, K, Migliozzi, P, and Moser, M
Subjects: astro-ph.HE, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Abstract: A search for point-like and extended sources of cosmic neutrinos using data collected by the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes is presented. The data set consists of all the track-like and shower-like events pointing in the direction of the Southern Sky included in the nine-year ANTARES point-source analysis, combined with the throughgoing track-like events used in the seven-year IceCube point-source search. The advantageous field of view of ANTARES and the large size of IceCube are exploited to improve the sensitivity in the Southern Sky by a factor of ∼2 compared to both individual analyses. In this work, the Southern Sky is scanned for possible excesses of spatial clustering, and the positions of preselected candidate sources are investigated. In addition, special focus is given to the region around the Galactic Center, whereby a dedicated search at the location of SgrA∗ is performed, and to the location of the supernova remnant RXJ 1713.7-3946. No significant evidence for cosmic neutrino sources is found, and upper limits on the flux from the various searches are presented.
Published: 2020

18. Measuring the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters and constraining the 3+1 neutrino model with ten years of ANTARES data

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donà, R., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nielsen, C., Nuñez, A., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Randazzo, N., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Salah-Eddine, A., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: The ANTARES neutrino telescope has an energy threshold of a few tens of GeV. This allows to study the phenomenon of atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance due to neutrino oscillations. In a similar way, constraints on the 3+1 neutrino model, which foresees the existence of one sterile neutrino, can be inferred. Using data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope from 2007 to 2016, a new measurement of $\Delta m^2_{32}$ and $\theta_{23}$ has been performed - which is consistent with world best-fit values - and constraints on the 3+1 neutrino model have been derived.
Published: 2018

19. Search for Multi-messenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during its first Observing Run, ANTARES and IceCube

Author: ANTARES, IceCube, LIGO, Collaborations, Virgo, Albert, A., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Marti, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzas, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Diaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Dona, R., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsasser, D., Enzenhofer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gregoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, such as binary neutron star and black hole mergers or core-collapse supernovae, can drive relativistic outflows, giving rise to non-thermal high-energy emission. High-energy neutrinos are signatures of such outflows. The detection of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from common sources could help establish the connection between the dynamics of the progenitor and the properties of the outflow. We searched for associated emission of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical transients with minimal assumptions using data from Advanced LIGO from its first observing run O1, and data from the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino observatories from the same time period. We focused on candidate events whose astrophysical origin could not be determined from a single messenger. We found no significant coincident candidate, which we used to constrain the rate density of astrophysical sources dependent on their gravitational wave and neutrino emission processes., Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2018
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20. Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino telescope to point-like neutrino sources

Author: The KM3NeT Collaboration, Aiello, S., Akrame, S. E., Ameli, F., Anassontzis, E. G., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aublin, J., Avgitas, T., Bagatelas, C., Barbarino, G., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Belias, A., Berbee, E., Berg, A. van den, Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Biagioni, A., Biernoth, C., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Brânzas, H., Bruchner, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, N., Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Molla, M. Colomer, Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., D'Onofrio, A., Dallier, R., De Sio, C., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donà, R., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Durocher, M., Eberl, T., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Eljarrari, H., Elsaesser, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filipovic, M. D., Fusco, L. A., Gal, T., Garcia, A., Garufi, F., Gialanella, L., Giorgio, E., Giuliante, A., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grasso, D., Grégoire, T., Grella, G., Hallmann, S., Hamdaoui, H., van Haren, H., Heid, T., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hofestädt, J., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jongen, M., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalaczynski, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, Kiessling, D., Koffeman, E. N., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kulikovskiy, V., Kunhikannan-Kannichankandy, M., Lahmann, R., Larosa, G., Breton, R. Le, Leone, F., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lonardo, A., Longhitano, F., Coto, D. Lopez, Lotze, M., Maderer, L., Maggi, G., Manczak, J., Mannheim, K., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mele, R., Melis, K. W., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miranda, L. S., Mollo, C. M., Morganti, M., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Nielsen, C., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Organokov, M., Orlando, A., Ottonello, S., Panagopoulos, V., Papalashvili, G., Papaleo, R., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pikounis, K., Pisanti, O., Poirè, C., Polydefki, G., Popa, V., Post, M., Pradier, T., Pühlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Quinn, L., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Real, D., Resvanis, L., Reubelt, J., Riccobene, G., Richer, M., Rigalleau, L., Rovelli, A., Saffer, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schumann, J., Sciacca, V., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Simeone, F., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Steijger, J., Stellacci, S. M., Strandberg, B., Stransky, D., Stüven, T., Taiuti, M., Tatone, F., Tayalati, Y., Tenllado, E., Thakore, T., Trovato, A., Tzamariudaki, E., Tzanetatos, D., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Zaborov, D., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: KM3NeT will be a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ARCA detector, to be installed at the Capo Passero site (Italy), is optimised for the detection of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic origin. Thanks to its geographical location on the Northern hemisphere, KM3NeT/ARCA can observe upgoing neutrinos from most of the Galactic Plane, including the Galactic Centre. Given its effective area and excellent pointing resolution, KM3NeT/ARCA will measure or significantly constrain the neutrino flux from potential astrophysical neutrino sources. At the same time, it will test flux predictions based on gamma-ray measurements and the assumption that the gamma-ray flux is of hadronic origin. Assuming this scenario, discovery potentials and sensitivities for a selected list of Galactic sources and to generic point sources with an $E^{-2}$ spectrum are presented. These spectra are assumed to be time independent. The results indicate that an observation with $3\sigma$ significance is possible in about six years of operation for the most intense sources, such as Supernovae Remnants RX\,J1713.7-3946 and Vela Jr. If no signal will be found during this time, the fraction of the gamma-ray flux coming from hadronic processes can be constrained to be below 50\% for these two objects., Comment: 32 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Astroparticle Physics
Published: 2018
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21. Joint constraints on Galactic diffuse neutrino emission from ANTARES and IceCube

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nuñez, A., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Randazzo, N., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Aartsen, M. G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Samarai, I. Al, Altmann, D., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Anton, G., Argüelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Backes, P., Bagherpour, H., Bai, X., Barbano, A., Barron, J. P., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Börner, M., Bos, F., Böser, S., Botner, O., Bourbeau, E., Bourbeau, J., Bradascio, F., Braun, J., Brenzke, M., Bretz, H. -P., Bron, S., Brostean-Kaiser, J., Burgman, A., Busse, R. S., Carver, T., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Coppin, P., Correa, P., Cowen, D. F., Cross, R., Dave, P., Day, M., de André, J. P. A. M., De Clercq, C., DeLaunay, J. J., Dembinski, H., Deoskar, K., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., di Lorenzo, V., Dujmovic, H., Dumm, J. P., Dunkman, M., Dvorak, E., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Eller, P., Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Franckowiak, A., Friedman, E., Fritz, A., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Ganster, E., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Giang, W., Glauch, T., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Gonzalez, J. G., Grant, D., Griffith, Z., Haack, C., Hallgren, A., Halve, L., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Hoinka, T., Hokanson-Fasig, B., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huber, M., Hultqvist, K., Hünnefeld, M., Hussain, R., In, S., Iovine, N., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Japaridze, G. S., Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J. P., Kalaczynski, P., Kang, W., Kappes, A., Kappesser, D., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kauer, M., Keivani, A., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kim, J., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. R., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koschinsky, J. P., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Kroll, M., Krückl, G., Kunwar, S., Kurahashi, N., Kyriacou, A., Labare, M., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larson, M. J., Lauber, F., Leonard, K., Leuermann, M., Liu, Q. R., Lohfink, E., Mariscal, C. J. Lozano, Lu, L., Lünemann, J., Luszczak, W., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Mahn, K. B. M., Makino, Y., Mancina, S., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Maunu, R., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Meier, M., Menne, T., Merino, G., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Micallef, J., Momenté, G., Montaruli, T., Moore, R. W., Moulai, M., Nagai, R., Nahnhauer, R., Nakarmi, P., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Pollmann, A. Obertacke, Olivas, A., O'Murchadha, A., O'Sullivan, E., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V., Peiffer, P., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Pizzuto, A., Plum, M., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Raab, C., Rameez, M., Rauch, L., Rawlins, K., Rea, I. C., Reimann, R., Relethford, B., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Rysewyk, D., Safa, I., Herrera, S. E. Sanchez, Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Schaufel, M., Schlunder, P., Schmidt, T., Schneider, A., Schöneberg, S., Schumacher, L., Sclafani, S., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Soedingrekso, J., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stachurska, J., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stein, R., Stettner, J., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Strotjohann, N. L., Stuttard, T., Sullivan, G. W., Sutherland, M., Taboada, I., Tenholt, F., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Tobin, M. N., Tönnis, C., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Tselengidou, M., Tung, C. F., Turcati, A., Turley, C. F., Ty, B., Unger, E., Elorrieta, M. A. Unland, Usner, M., Vandenbroucke, J., Van Driessche, W., van Eijk, D., van Eijndhoven, N., Vanheule, S., van Santen, J., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandler, F. D., Wandkowsky, N., Watson, T. B., Waza, A., Weaver, C., Weiss, M. J., Wendt, C., Werthebach, J., Westerhoff, S., Whelan, B. J., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wille, L., Williams, D. R., Wills, L., Wolf, M., Wood, J., Wood, T. R., Woolsey, E., Woschnagg, K., Wrede, G., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Yuan, T., Gaggero, D., and Grasso, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The existence of diffuse Galactic neutrino production is expected from cosmic ray interactions with Galactic gas and radiation fields. Thus, neutrinos are a unique messenger offering the opportunity to test the products of Galactic cosmic ray interactions up to energies of hundreds of TeV. Here we present a search for this production using ten years of ANTARES track and shower data, as well as seven years of IceCube track data. The data are combined into a joint likelihood test for neutrino emission according to the KRA$_\gamma$ model assuming a 5 PeV per nucleon Galactic cosmic ray cutoff. No significant excess is found. As a consequence, the limits presented in this work start constraining the model parameter space for Galactic cosmic ray production and transport., Comment: 5 figures
Published: 2018
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22. The cosmic ray shadow of the Moon observed with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martít, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânza, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Dìaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Fusco, L. A., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Illuminati, G., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nuñez, A., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Randazzo, N., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: One of the main objectives of the ANTARES telescope is the search for point-like neutrino sources. Both the pointing accuracy and the angular resolution of the detector are important in this context and a reliable way to evaluate this performance is needed. In order to measure the pointing accuracy of the detector, one possibility is to study the shadow of the Moon, i.e. the deficit of the atmospheric muon flux from the direction of the Moon induced by the absorption of cosmic rays. Analysing the data taken between 2007 and 2016, the Moon shadow is observed with $3.5\sigma$ statistical significance. The detector angular resolution for downward-going muons is 0.73$^{\circ}\pm0.14^{\circ}.$ The resulting pointing performance is consistent with the expectations. An independent check of the telescope pointing accuracy is realised with the data collected by a shower array detector onboard of a ship temporarily moving around the ANTARES location., Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2018
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23. Search for neutrinos from TXS 0506+056 with the ANTARES telescope

Author: Albert, A., Andrè, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martì, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Branzas, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Danzau, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donà, G., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsasser, D., Enzenhofer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gréegoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Hossl, J., Hofestadt, J., Illuminati, G., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefevre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nunez, A., Organokov, M., Pavalas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Randazzo, N., Riccobene, G., Sanchez-Losa, A., Saldana, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schussler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyki, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zornoza, J. D., and Zuniga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The results of three different searches for neutrino candidates, associated with the IceCube-170922A event or from the direction of TXS 0506+056, by the ANTARES neutrino telescope are presented. The first search refers to the online follow-up of the IceCube alert; the second is based on the standard time-integrated method employed by the Collaboration to search for point-like neutrino sources; the third uses the information from the IceCube time-dependent analysis reporting a bursting activity centered on December 13, 2014, as input for an ANTARES time-dependent analysis. The online follow-up and the time-dependent analysis yield no events related to the source. The time-integrated study performed over a period from 2007 to 2017 fits 1.03 signal events, which corresponds to a p-value of 3.4% (not considering trial factors). Only for two other astrophysical objects in our candidate list, a smaller p-value had been found. When considering that 107 sources have been investigated, the post-trial p-value for TXS 0506+056 corresponds to 87%.
Published: 2018
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24. Search for high-energy neutrinos in coincidence with Fast Radio Bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nuñez, A., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Randazzo, N., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: In the past decade, a new class of bright transient radio sources with millisecond duration has been discovered. The origin of these so-called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is still a great mystery despite the growing observational efforts made by various multi-wavelength and multi-messenger facilities. So far, many models have been proposed to explain FRBs but neither the progenitors nor the radiative and the particle acceleration processes at work have been clearly identified. In this paper, the question whether some hadronic processes may occur in the vicinity of the FRB source is assessed. If so, FRBs may contribute to the high energy cosmic-ray and neutrino fluxes. A search for these hadronic signatures has been done using the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The analysis consists in looking for high-energy neutrinos, in the TeV-PeV regime, spatially and temporally coincident with the detected FRBs. Most of the FRBs discovered in the period 2013-2017 were in the field of view of the ANTARES detector, which is sensitive mostly to events originating from the Southern hemisphere. From this period, 12 FRBs have been selected and no coincident neutrino candidate was observed. Upper limits on the per burst neutrino fluence have been derived using a power law spectrum, $\rm{\frac{dN}{dE_\nu}\propto E_\nu^{-\gamma}}$, for the incoming neutrino flux, assuming spectral indexes $\gamma$ = 1.0, 2.0, 2.5. Finally, the neutrino energy has been constrained by computing the total energy radiated in neutrinos assuming different distances for the FRBs. Constraints on the neutrino fluence and on the energy released are derived from the associated null results., Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2018
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25. Long-term monitoring of the ANTARES optical module efficiencies using $^{40}\mathrm{K}$ decays in sea water

Author: ANTARES collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Boumaaza, J., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Ferrara, G., Fusco, L. A., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nuñez, A., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Randazzo, N., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Cherenkov light induced by radioactive decay products is one of the major sources of background light for deep-sea neutrino telescopes such as ANTARES. These decays are at the same time a powerful calibration source. Using data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope from mid 2008 to 2017, the time evolution of the photon detection efficiency of optical modules is studied. A modest loss of only 20% in 9 years is observed. The relative time calibration between adjacent modules is derived as well.
Published: 2018
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26. Search for Multimessenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during Its First Observing Run, ANTARES, and IceCube

Author: Albert, A, André, M, Anghinolfi, M, Ardid, M, Aubert, J-J, Aublin, J, Avgitas, T, Baret, B, Barrios-Martí, J, Basa, S, Belhorma, B, Bertin, V, Biagi, S, Bormuth, R, Boumaaza, J, Bourret, S, Bouwhuis, MC, Brânzaş, H, Bruijn, R, Brunner, J, Busto, J, Capone, A, Caramete, L, Carr, J, Celli, S, Chabab, M, Moursli, R Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T, Circella, M, Coelho, JAB, Coleiro, A, Colomer, M, Coniglione, R, Costantini, H, Coyle, P, Creusot, A, Díaz, AF, Deschamps, A, Distefano, C, Di Palma, I, Domi, A, Donà, R, Donzaud, C, Dornic, D, Drouhin, D, Eberl, T, Bojaddaini, I El, Khayati, N El, Elsässer, D, Enzenhöfer, A, Ettahiri, A, Fassi, F, Felis, I, Fermani, P, Ferrara, G, Fusco, L, Gay, P, Glotin, H, Grégoire, T, Ruiz, R Gracia, Graf, K, Hallmann, S, van Haren, H, Heijboer, AJ, Hello, Y, Hernández-Rey, JJ, Hößl, J, Hofestädt, J, Illuminati, G, de Jong, M, Jongen, M, Kadler, M, Kalekin, O, Katz, U, Khan-Chowdhury, NR, Kouchner, A, Kreter, M, Kreykenbohm, I, Kulikovskiy, V, Lachaud, C, Lahmann, R, Lefèvre, D, Leonora, E, Levi, G, Lotze, M, Loucatos, S, Maggi, G, Marcelin, M, Margiotta, A, Marinelli, A, Martínez-Mora, JA, Mele, R, Melis, K, Migliozzi, P, Moussa, A, Navas, S, Nezri, E, Nuñez, A, Organokov, M, and Păvălaş, GE
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Astronomical Sciences, Physical Sciences, gravitational waves, neutrinos, astro-ph.HE, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical sciences, Particle and high energy physics, Space sciences
Abstract: Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, such as binary neutron star and black hole mergers or core-collapse supernovae, can drive relativistic outflows, giving rise to non-thermal high-energy emission. High-energy neutrinos are signatures of such outflows. The detection of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from common sources could help establish the connection between the dynamics of the progenitor and the properties of the outflow. We searched for associated emission of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical transients with minimal assumptions using data from Advanced LIGO from its first observing run O1, and data from the Antares and IceCube neutrino observatories from the same time period. We focused on candidate events whose astrophysical origins could not be determined from a single messenger. We found no significant coincident candidate, which we used to constrain the rate density of astrophysical sources dependent on their gravitational-wave and neutrino emission processes.
Published: 2019

27. Joint Constraints on Galactic Diffuse Neutrino Emission from the ANTARES and IceCube Neutrino Telescopes

Author: Albert, A, André, M, Anghinolfi, M, Ardid, M, Aubert, JJ, Aublin, J, Avgitas, T, Baret, B, Barrios-Martí, J, Basa, S, Belhorma, B, Bertin, V, Biagi, S, Bormuth, R, Boumaaza, J, Bourret, S, Bouwhuis, MC, Brânzaş, H, Bruijn, R, Brunner, J, Busto, J, Capone, A, Caramete, L, Carr, J, Celli, S, Chabab, M, El Moursli, RC, Chiarusi, T, Circella, M, Coelho, JAB, Coleiro, A, Colomer, M, Coniglione, R, Costantini, H, Coyle, P, Creusot, A, Díaz, AF, Deschamps, A, Distefano, C, Palma, ID, Domi, A, Donzaud, C, Dornic, D, Drouhin, D, Eberl, T, Bojaddaini, IE, Khayati, NE, Elsässer, D, Enzenhöfer, A, Ettahiri, A, Fassi, F, Felis, I, Fermani, P, Ferrara, G, Fusco, L, Gay, P, Glotin, H, Grégoire, T, Ruiz, RG, Graf, K, Hallmann, S, Haren, HV, Heijboer, AJ, Hello, Y, Hernández-Rey, JJ, Hößl, J, Hofestädt, J, Illuminati, G, James, CW, Jong, MD, Jongen, M, Kadler, M, Kalekin, O, Katz, U, Khan-Chowdhury, NR, Kouchner, A, Kreter, M, Kreykenbohm, I, Kulikovskiy, V, Lachaud, C, Lahmann, R, Lefèvre, D, Leonora, E, Levi, G, Lotze, M, Loucatos, S, Marcelin, M, Margiotta, A, Marinelli, A, Martínez-Mora, JA, Mele, R, Melis, K, Migliozzi, P, Moussa, A, Navas, S, Nezri, E, Nuñez, A, Organokov, M, Pǎvǎlaş, GE, and Pellegrino, C
Subjects: astro-ph.HE, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: The existence of diffuse Galactic neutrino production is expected from cosmic-ray interactions with Galactic gas and radiation fields. Thus, neutrinos are a unique messenger offering the opportunity to test the products of Galactic cosmic-ray interactions up to energies of hundreds of TeV. Here we present a search for this production using ten years of Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch (ANTARES) track and shower data, as well as seven years of IceCube track data. The data are combined into a joint likelihood test for neutrino emission according to the KRAg model assuming a 5 PeV per nucleon Galactic cosmic-ray cutoff. No significant excess is found. As a consequence, the limits presented in this Letter start constraining the model parameter space for Galactic cosmic-ray production and transport.
Published: 2018

28. All-flavor search for a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos with 9 years of ANTARES data

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The ANTARES detector is at present the most sensitive neutrino telescope in the Northern Hemisphere. The highly significant cosmic neutrino excess observed by the Antarctic IceCube detector can be studied with ANTARES, exploiting its complementing field of view, exposure, and lower energy threshold. Searches for an all-flavor diffuse neutrino signal, covering 9 years of ANTARES data taking, are presented in this letter. Upward-going events are used to reduce the atmospheric muon background. This work includes for the first time in ANTARES both track-like (mainly $\nu_\mu)$ and shower-like (mainly $\nu_e$) events in this kind of analysis. Track-like events allow for an increase of the effective volume of the detector thanks to the long path traveled by muons in rock and/or sea water. Shower-like events are well reconstructed only when the neutrino interaction vertex is close to, or inside, the instrumented volume. A mild excess of high-energy events over the expected background is observed in 9 years of ANTARES data in both samples. The best fit for a single power-law cosmic neutrino spectrum, in terms of per-flavor flux at 100 TeV, is $\Phi_0^{1f}(100\ \textrm{TeV}) = \left(1.7\pm 1.0\right) \times$10$^{-18}$\,GeV$^{-1}$\,cm$^{-2}$\,s$^{-1}$\,sr$^{-1}$ with spectral index $\Gamma = 2.4^{+0.5}_{-0.4}$. The null cosmic flux assumption is rejected with a significance of 1.6$\sigma$.
Published: 2017
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29. The ANTARES Collaboration: Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part III: Searches for dark matter and exotics, neutrino oscillations and detector calibration

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Papers on the searches for dark matter and exotics, neutrino oscillations and detector calibration, prepared for the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the ANTARES Collaboration
Published: 2017

30. The ANTARES Collaboration: Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part II: The multi-messenger program

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Papers on the ANTARES multi-messenger program, prepared for the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the ANTARES Collaboration
Published: 2017

31. The ANTARES Collaboration: Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part I: Neutrino astronomy (diffuse fluxes and point sources)

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Papers on neutrino astronomy (diffuse fluxes and point sources, prepared for the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the ANTARES Collaboration
Published: 2017

32. Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory

Author: Albert, A., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Marti, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Branzacs, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Diaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsasser, D., Enzenhofer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Gregoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Hossl, J., Hofestadt, J., Illuminati, G., James, C. 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J., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A. R., Wade, L. E., Wade, M., Walet, R., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Walsh, S., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. Z., Wang, W. H., Wang, Y. F., Ward, R. L., Warner, J., Was, M., Watchi, J., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wessel, E. K., Wessels, P., Westerweck, J., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whiting, B. F., Whittle, C., Wilken, D., Williams, D., Williams, R. D., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M. H., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Woehler, J., Wofford, J., Wong, K. W. K., Worden, J., Wright, J. L., Wu, D. S., Wysocki, D. M., Xiao, S., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yap, M. J., Yazback, M., Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zelenova, T., Zendri, J. -P., Zevin, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, M., Zhang, T., Zhang, Y. -H., Zhao, C., Zhou, M., Zhou, Z., Zhu, S. J., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merger of this binary was also recorded by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM), and the Anticoincidence Shield for the Spectrometer for the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), indicating particle acceleration by the source. The precise location of the event was determined by optical detections of emission following the merger. We searched for high-energy neutrinos from the merger in the GeV--EeV energy range using the ANTARES, IceCube, and Pierre Auger Observatories. No neutrinos directionally coincident with the source were detected within $\pm500$ s around the merger time. Additionally, no MeV neutrino burst signal was detected coincident with the merger. We further carried out an extended search in the direction of the source for high-energy neutrinos within the 14-day period following the merger, but found no evidence of emission. We used these results to probe dissipation mechanisms in relativistic outflows driven by the binary neutron star merger. The non-detection is consistent with model predictions of short GRBs observed at a large off-axis angle., Comment: 22 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2017
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33. All-sky Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW170104 with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Advanced LIGO detected a significant gravitational wave signal (GW170104) originating from the coalescence of two black holes during the second observation run on January 4$^{\textrm{th}}$, 2017. An all-sky high-energy neutrino follow-up search has been made using data from the ANTARES neutrino telescope, including both upgoing and downgoing events in two separate analyses. No neutrino candidates were found within $\pm500$ s around the GW event time nor any time clustering of events over an extended time window of $\pm3$ months. The non-detection is used to constrain isotropic-equivalent high-energy neutrino emission from GW170104 to less than $\sim4\times 10^{54}$ erg for a $E^{-2}$ spectrum.
Published: 2017

34. An algorithm for the reconstruction of neutrino-induced showers in the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Muons created by $\nu_\mu$ charged current (CC) interactions in the water surrounding the ANTARES neutrino telescope have been almost exclusively used so far in searches for cosmic neutrino sources. Due to their long range, highly energetic muons inducing Cherenkov radiation in the water are reconstructed with dedicated algorithms that allow the determination of the parent neutrino direction with a median angular resolution of about \unit{0.4}{\degree} for an $E^{-2}$ neutrino spectrum. In this paper, an algorithm optimised for accurate reconstruction of energy and direction of shower events in the ANTARES detector is presented. Hadronic showers of electrically charged particles are produced by the disintegration of the nucleus both in CC and neutral current (NC) interactions of neutrinos in water. In addition, electromagnetic showers result from the CC interactions of electron neutrinos while the decay of a tau lepton produced in $\nu_\tau$ CC interactions will in most cases lead to either a hadronic or an electromagnetic shower. A shower can be approximated as a point source of photons. With the presented method, the shower position is reconstructed with a precision of about \unit{1}{\metre}, the neutrino direction is reconstructed with a median angular resolution between \unit{2}{\degree} and \unit{3}{\degree} in the energy range of \SIrange{1}{1000}{TeV}. In this energy interval, the uncertainty on the reconstructed neutrino energy is about \SIrange{5}{10}{\%}. The increase in the detector sensitivity due to the use of additional information from shower events in the searches for a cosmic neutrino flux is also presented.
Published: 2017

35. First all-flavour Neutrino Point-like Source Search with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search for cosmic neutrino sources using the data collected with the ANTARES neutrino telescope between early 2007 and the end of 2015 is performed. For the first time, all neutrino interactions --charged and neutral current interactions of all flavours-- are considered in a search for point-like sources with the ANTARES detector. In previous analyses, only muon neutrino charged current interactions were used. This is achieved by using a novel reconstruction algorithm for shower-like events in addition to the standard muon track reconstruction. The shower channel contributes about 23\% of all signal events for an $E^{-2}$ energy spectrum. No significant excess over background is found. The most signal-like cluster of events is located at $(\alpha,\delta) = (343.8^\circ, 23.5^\circ)$ with a significance of $1.9\sigma$. The neutrino flux sensitivity of the search is about $E^2 d\varPhi/dE = 6\cdot10^{-9} GeV cm^{-2} s^{-1}$ for declinations from $-90^\circ$ up to $-42^\circ$, and below $10^{-8} GeV cm^{-2} s^{-1}$ for declinations up to $5^{\circ}$. The directions of 106 source candidates and of 13 muon track events from the IceCube HESE sample are investigated for a possible neutrino signal and upper limits on the signal flux are determined., Comment: 24 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Physical Review D
Published: 2017
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36. New Constraints on all flavour Galactic diffuse neutrino emission with the ANTARES telescope

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fassi, F., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Gaggero, D., and Grasso, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The flux of very high-energy neutrinos produced in our Galaxy by the interaction of accelerated cosmic rays with the interstellar medium is not yet determined. The characterization of this flux will shed light on Galactic accelerator features, gas distribution morphology and Galactic cosmic ray transport. The central Galactic plane can be the site of an enhanced neutrino production, thus leading to anisotropies in the extraterrestrial neutrino signal as measured by the IceCube Collaboration. The ANTARES neutrino telescope, located in the Mediterranean Sea, offers a favourable view on this part of the sky, thereby allowing for a contribution to the determination of this flux. The expected diffuse Galactic neutrino emission can be obtained linking a model of generation and propagation of cosmic rays with the morphology of the gas distribution in the Milky Way. In this paper, the so-called "Gamma model" introduced recently to explain the high-energy gamma ray diffuse Galactic emission, is assumed as reference. The neutrino flux predicted by the "Gamma model" depends of the assumed primary cosmic ray spectrum cut-off. Considering a radially-dependent diffusion coefficient, this proposed scenario is able to account for the local cosmic ray measurements, as well as for the Galactic gamma ray observations. Nine years of ANTARES data are used in this work to search for a possible Galactic contribution according to this scenario. All flavour neutrino interactions are considered. No excess of events is observed and an upper limit is set on the neutrino flux of $1.1$ ($1.2$) times the prediction of the "Gamma model" assuming the primary cosmic ray spectrum cut-off at 5 (50) PeV. This limit excludes the diffuse Galactic neutrino emission as the major cause of the "spectral anomaly" between the two hemispheres measured by IceCube., Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Published: 2017
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37. Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW151226 and Candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube

Author: Albert, A., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Marti, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsasser, D., Enzenhofer, A., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galata, S., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Gregoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Hoessl, J., Hofestadt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kiessling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefevre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Nezri, E., Pavalas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sanchez-Losa, A., Saldana, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schussler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tonnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallee, C., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., Zuniga, J., Aartsen, M. G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Samarai, I. 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R., Palashov, O., Palomba, C., Pal-Singh, A., Pan, H., Pankow, C., Pannarale, F., Pant, B. C., Paoletti, F., Paoli, A., Papa, M. A., Paris, H. R., Parker, W., Pascucci, D., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patricelli, B., Pearlstone, B. L., Pedraza, M., Pedurand, R., Pekowsky, L., Pele, A., Penn, S., Perez, C. J., Perreca, A., Perri, L. M., Pfei_er, H. P., Phelps, M., Piccinni, O. J., Pichot, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pillant, G., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Poe, M., Poggiani, R., Popolizio, P., Post, A., Powell, J., Prasad, J., Pratt, J. W. W., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Purrer, M., Qi, H., Qin, J., Qiu, S., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E. A., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Radkins, H., Ra_ai, P., Raja, S., Rajan, C., Rakhmanov, M., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Razzano, M., Re, V., Read, J., Regimbau, T., Rei, L., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Rew, H., Reyes, S. D., Rhoades, E., Ricci, F., Riles, K., Rizzo, M., Robertson, N. A., Robie, R., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Roma, V. J., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosi_nska, D., Rowan, S., Rudiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sachdev, S., Sadecki, T., Sadeghian, L., Sakellariadou, M., Salconi, L., Saleem, M., Salemi, F., Samajdar, A., Sammut, L., Sampson, L. M., Sanchez, E. J., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J. R., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Sauter, O., Savage, R. L., Sawadsky, A., Schale, P., Scheuer, J., Schmidt, E., Schmidt, J., Schmidt, P., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schonbeck, A., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schutz, B. F., Schwalbe, S. G., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Sergeev, A., Setyawati, Y., Shaddock, D. 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I., Toyra, D., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trifiro, D., Trinastic, J., Tringali, M. C., Trozzo, L., Tse, M., Tso, R., Turconi, M., Tuyenbayev, D., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Urban, A. L., Usman, S. A., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., van Bakel, N., van Beuzekom, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, Vander-Hyde, D. C., van der Schaaf, L., van Heijningen, J. V., van Veggel, A. A., Vardaro, M., Varma, V., Vass, S., Vas_uth, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Venugopalan, G., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Viets, A. D., Vinciguerra, S., Vine, D. J., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Voss, D. V., Vousden, W. D., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A. R., Wade, L. E., Wade, M., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Walsh, S., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, M., Wang, Y., Ward, R. L., Warner, J., Was, M., Watchi, J., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., We_els, P., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whiting, B. F., Whittle, C., Williams, D., Williams, R. D., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M. H., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Woehler, J., Worden, J., Wright, J. L., Wu, D. S., Wu, G., Yam, W., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yap, M. J., Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zangrando, L., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zevin, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, M., Zhang, T., Zhang, Y., Zhao, C., Zhou, M., Zhou, Z., Zhu, S. J., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The Advanced LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers during their first observation run (O1). We present a high-energy neutrino follow-up search for the second gravitational wave event, GW151226, as well as for gravitational wave candidate LVT151012. We find 2 and 4 neutrino candidates detected by IceCube, and 1 and 0 detected by ANTARES, within $\pm500$ s around the respective gravitational wave signals, consistent with the expected background rate. None of these neutrino candidates are found to be directionally coincident with GW151226 or LVT151012. We use non-detection to constrain isotropic-equivalent high-energy neutrino emission from GW151226 adopting the GW event's 3D localization, to less than $2\times 10^{51}-2\times10^{54}$ erg., Comment: 7 pages (+ author list), 4 figures
Published: 2017
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38. Model-independent search for neutrino sources with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Nezri, E., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Roensch, K., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 85-04, 85-05, 85-08
Abstract: A novel method to analyse the spatial distribution of neutrino candidates recorded with the ANTARES neutrino telescope is introduced, searching for an excess of neutrinos in a region of arbitrary size and shape from any direction in the sky. Techniques originating from the domains of machine learning, pattern recognition and image processing are used to purify the sample of neutrino candidates and for the analysis of the obtained skymap. In contrast to a dedicated search for a specific neutrino emission model, this approach is sensitive to a wide range of possible morphologies of potential sources of high-energy neutrino emission. The application of these methods to ANTARES data yields a large-scale excess with a post-trial significance of 2.5$\sigma$. Applied to public data from IceCube in its IC40 configuration, an excess consistent with the results from ANTARES is observed with a post-trial significance of 2.1$\sigma$.
Published: 2017

39. An algorithm for the reconstruction of high-energy neutrino-induced particle showers and its application to the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Felis, I., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: A novel algorithm to reconstruct neutrino-induced particle showers within the ANTARES neutrino telescope is presented. The method achieves a median angular resolution of $6^\circ$ for shower energies below 100 TeV. Applying this algorithm to 6 years of data taken with the ANTARES detector, 8 events with reconstructed shower energies above 10 TeV are observed. This is consistent with the expectation of about 5 events from atmospheric backgrounds, but also compatible with diffuse astrophysical flux measurements by the IceCube collaboration, from which 2 - 4 additional events are expected. A 90% C.L. upper limit on the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux with a value per neutrino flavour of $E^2\cdot \Phi^{90\%} = 4.9 \cdot 10^{-8}$ GeV $\cdot$ cm$^{-2} \cdot$ s$^{-1} \cdot$ sr$^{-1}$ is set, applicable to the energy range from 23 TeV to 7.8 PeV, assuming an unbroken $E^{-2}$ spectrum and neutrino flavour equipartition at Earth., Comment: published version
Published: 2017
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40. Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with five years of the ANTARES detector data

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Giordano, V., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: A search for magnetic monopoles using five years of data recorded with the ANTARES neutrino telescope from January 2008 to December 2012 with a total live time of 1121 days is presented. The analysis is carried out in the range $\beta$ $>$ $0.6$ of magnetic monopole velocities using a strategy based on run-by-run Monte Carlo simulations. No signal above the background expectation from atmospheric muons and atmospheric neutrinos is observed, and upper limits are set on the magnetic monopole flux ranging from $5.7 \times 10^{-16}$ to $1.5 \times 10^{-18}$ cm$^{-2} \cdot $ s$^{-1} \cdot $ sr$^{-1}$., Comment: 23 pages, 8 figures, introduction developed, sentences added about systematic uncertainties in sections 6 and 8, figure style changed, added references for section 8
Published: 2017
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41. Search for high-energy neutrinos from bright GRBs with ANTARES

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Nezri, E., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Roensch, K., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be sites of hadronic acceleration, thus neutrinos are expected from the decay of charged particles, produced in p{\gamma} interactions. The methods and results of a search for muon neutrinos in the data of the ANTARES neutrino telescope from four bright GRBs (GRB 080916C, GRB 110918A, GRB 130427A and GRB 130505A) observed between 2008 and 2013 are presented. Two scenarios of the fireball model have been investigated: the internal shock scenario, leading to the production of neutrinos with energies mainly above 100 TeV, and the photospheric scenario, characterised by a low-energy component in neutrino spectra due to the assumption of neutrino production closer to the central engine. Since no neutrino events have been detected in temporal and spatial coincidence with these bursts, upper limits at 90% C.L. on the expected neutrino fluxes are derived. The non-detection allows for directly constraining the bulk Lorentz factor of the jet {\Gamma} and the baryon loading fp., Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2016
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42. Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in the Earth using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Glotin, H., Grégoire, T., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Nezri, E., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Roensch, K., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: A search for a neutrino signal from WIMP pair annihilations in the centre of the Earth has been performed with the data collected with the ANTARES neutrino telescope from 2007 to 2012. The event selection criteria have been developed and tuned to maximise the sensitivity of the experiment to such a neutrino signal. No significant excess of neutrinos over the expected background has been observed. Upper limits at $90\%$ C.L. on the WIMP annihilation rate in the Earth and the spin independent scattering cross-section of WIMPs to nucleons $\sigma^{SI}_p$ were calculated for WIMP pair annihilations into either $\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$, $W^+W^-$, $b\overline{b}$ or the non-SUSY $\nu_{\mu}\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ as a function of the WIMP mass (between $25\,\mathrm{GeV/c^2}$ and $1000\,\mathrm{GeV/c^2}$) and as a function of the thermally averaged annihilation cross section times velocity $\langle\sigma_{A} v\rangle_{Earth}$ of the WIMPs in the centre of the Earth. For masses of the WIMP close to the mass of iron nuclei ($50\,\mathrm{GeV/c^2}$), the obtained limits on $\sigma^{SI}_p$ are more stringent than those obtained by other indirect searches., Comment: Revised version for journal submission
Published: 2016

43. Results from the search for dark matter in the Milky Way with 9 years of data of the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bourret, S., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, I. Di Palma, Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Grégoire, T., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèver, D., Leonora, E., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Nezri, E., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Roensch, K., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Using data recorded with the ANTARES telescope from 2007 to 2015, a new search for dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way has been performed. Three halo models and five annihilation channels, $\rm WIMP + WIMP \to b \bar b, W^+ W^-, \tau^+ \tau^-, \mu^{+} \mu^{-}$ and $\nu \bar{\nu}$, with WIMP masses ranging from 50 $\frac{\text{GeV}}{\text{c}^2}$ to 100 $\frac{\text{TeV}}{\text{c}^2}$, were considered. No excess over the expected background was found, and limits on the thermally averaged annihilation cross--section were set., Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures submitted to Physics Letters B. Erratum accepted by Physics Letters B
Published: 2016
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44. Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory

Author: Albert, A, André, M, Anghinolfi, M, Ardid, M, Aubert, J-J, Aublin, J, Avgitas, T, Baret, B, Barrios-Martí, J, Basa, S, Belhorma, B, Bertin, V, Biagi, S, Bormuth, R, Bourret, S, Bouwhuis, MC, Brânzaş, H, Bruijn, R, Brunner, J, Busto, J, Capone, A, Caramete, L, Carr, J, Celli, S, Moursli, R Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T, Circella, M, Coelho, JAB, Coleiro, A, Coniglione, R, Costantini, H, Coyle, P, Creusot, A, Díaz, AF, Deschamps, A, De Bonis, G, Distefano, C, Di Palma, I, Domi, A, Donzaud, C, Dornic, D, Drouhin, D, Eberl, T, Bojaddaini, I El, Khayati, N El, Elsässer, D, Enzenhöfer, A, Ettahiri, A, Fassi, F, Felis, I, Fusco, LA, Gay, P, Giordano, V, Glotin, H, Grégoire, T, Ruiz, R Gracia, Graf, K, Hallmann, S, van Haren, H, Heijboer, AJ, Hello, Y, Hernández-Rey, JJ, Hößl, J, Hofestädt, J, Illuminati, G, James, CW, de Jong, M, Jongen, M, Kadler, M, Kalekin, O, Katz, U, Kießling, D, Kouchner, A, Kreter, M, Kreykenbohm, I, Kulikovskiy, V, Lachaud, C, Lahmann, R, Lefèvre, D, Leonora, E, Lotze, M, Loucatos, S, Marcelin, M, Margiotta, A, Marinelli, A, Martínez-Mora, JA, Mele, R, Melis, K, Michael, T, Migliozzi, P, Moussa, A, Navas, S, Nezri, E, Organokov, M, Păvălaş, GE, Pellegrino, C, Perrina, C, Piattelli, P, Popa, V, and Pradier, T
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Astronomical Sciences, Physical Sciences, gamma-ray burst: general, gravitational waves, neutrinos, astro-ph.HE, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical sciences, Space sciences
Abstract: The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merger of this binary was also recorded by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM), and the Anti-Coincidence Shield for the Spectrometer for the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), indicating particle acceleration by the source. The precise location of the event was determined by optical detections of emission following the merger. We searched for high-energy neutrinos from the merger in the GeV-EeV energy range using the Antares, IceCube, and Pierre Auger Observatories. No neutrinos directionally coincident with the source were detected within ± 500 s around the merger time. Additionally, no MeV neutrino burst signal was detected coincident with the merger. We further carried out an extended search in the direction of the source for high-energy neutrinos within the 14 day period following the merger, but found no evidence of emission. We used these results to probe dissipation mechanisms in relativistic outflows driven by the binary neutron star merger. The non-detection is consistent with model predictions of short GRBs observed at a large off-axis angle.
Published: 2017

45. Intrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., Ageron, M., Aiello, S., Albert, A., Ameli, F., Anassontzis, E. G., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Avgitas, T., Barbarino, G., Barbarito, E., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Belias, A., Berbee, E., Berg, A. van den, Bertin, V., Beurthey, S., van Beveren, V., Beverini, N., Biagi, S., Biagioni, A., Billault, M., Bondì, M., Bormuth, R., Bouhadef, B., Bourlis, G., Bourret, S., Boutonnet, C., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Cacopardo, G., Caillat, L., Calamai, M., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Cecchini, S., Celli, S., Champion, C., Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Classen, L., Cobas, D., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Colonges, S., Coniglione, R., Cordelli, M., Cosquer, A., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., D'Amato, C., D'Amico, A., D'Onofrio, A., De Bonis, G., De Sio, C., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti-Hasankiadeh, Q., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Durocher, M., Eberl, T., Eichie, S., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsaesser, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Favaro, M., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Frascadore, G., Fusco, L. A., Gal, T., Galatà, S., Garufi, F., Gay, P., Gebyehu, M., Giacomini, F., Gialanella, L., Giordano, V., Gizani, N., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grégoire, T., Grella, G., Grmek, A., Habel, R., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Harissopulos, S., Heid, T., Heijboer, A., Heine, E., Henry, S., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hevinga, M., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C. M. F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jansweijer, P., Jongen, M., de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Kappes, A., Katz, U. F., Keller, P., Kieft, G., Kießling, D., Koffeman, E. N., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamare, P., Larosa, G., Leisos, A., Leone, F., Leonora, E., Clark, M. Lindsey, Liolios, A., Alvarez, C. D. Llorens, Presti, D. Lo, Löhner, H., Lonardo, A., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Maccioni, E., Mannheim, K., Manzali, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Mariş, O., Markou, C., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mele, R., Melis, K. W., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miraglia, A., Mollo, C. M., Mongelli, M., Morganti, M., Moussa, A., Musico, P., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Olcina, I., Olivetto, C., Orlando, A., Orzelli, A., Papaikonomou, A., Papaleo, R., Păvălaş, G. E., Peek, H., Pellegrini, G., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Pfutzner, M., Piattelli, P., Pikounis, K., Pleinert, M. -O., Poma, G. E., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Pratolongo, F., Pühlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Rauch, T., Real, D., Resvanis, L., Reubelt, J., Riccobene, G., Rossi, C., Rovelli, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., García, A. Sánchez, Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schimmel, F., Schmelling, J., Schnabel, J., Sciacca, V., Sedita, M., Seitz, T., Sgura, I., Simeone, F., Sipala, V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, G., Steijger, J., Stellacci, S. M., Stransky, D., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Terrasi, F., Tézier, D., Theraube, S., Timmer, P., Tönnis, C., Trasatti, L., Travaglini, R., Trovato, A., Tsirigotis, A., Tzamarias, S., Tzamariudaki, E., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Vermeulen, J., Vicini, P., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Volkert, M., Wiggers, L., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Zachariadou, K., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: Studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the few-GeV range with a multimegaton detector promises to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is the main science goal pursued by the future KM3NeT/ORCA water Cherenkov detector in the Mediterranean Sea. In this paper, the processes that limit the obtainable resolution in both energy and direction in charged-current neutrino events in the ORCA detector are investigated. These processes include the composition of the hadronic fragmentation products, the subsequent particle propagation and the photon-sampling fraction of the detector. GEANT simulations of neutrino interactions in seawater produced by GENIE are used to study the effects in the 1 - 20 GeV range. It is found that fluctuations in the hadronic cascade in conjunction with the variation of the inelasticity y are most detrimental to the resolutions. The effect of limited photon sampling in the detector is of significantly less importance. These results will therefore also be applicable to similar detectors/media, such as those in ice., Comment: 37 pages, 28 figures, JHEP published version
Published: 2016
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46. Time-dependent search for neutrino emission from x-ray binaries with the ANTARES telescope

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geiÿelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Glotin, H., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Höÿl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kieÿling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Nezri, E., Pavalas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Roensch, K., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Turpin, D., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: ANTARES is currently the largest neutrino telescope operating in the Northern Hemisphere, aiming at the detection of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. Neutrino telescopes constantly monitor at least one complete hemisphere of the sky, and are thus well-suited to detect neutrinos produced in transient astrophysical sources. A timedependent search has been applied to a list of 33 x-ray binaries undergoing high flaring activities in satellite data (RXTE/ASM, MAXI and Swift/BAT) and during hardness transition states in the 2008-2012 period. The background originating from interactions of charged cosmic rays in the Earth's atmosphere is drastically reduced by requiring a directional and temporal coincidence with astrophysical phenomena. The results of this search are presented together with comparisons between the neutrino flux upper limits and the neutrino flux predictions from astrophysical models. The neutrino flux upper limits resulting from this search limit the jet parameter predictions for some astrophysical models., Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures, article accepted by JCAP
Published: 2016
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47. Limits on Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

Author: ANTARES collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Glotin, H., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèver, D., Leonora, E., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Nezri, E., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Roensch, K., Saldana, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tönnis, C., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Turpin, D., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A search for muon neutrinos originating from dark matter annihilations in the Sun is performed using the data recorded by the ANTARES neutrino telescope from 2007 to 2012. In order to obtain the best possible sensitivities to dark matter signals, an optimisation of the event selection criteria is performed taking into account the background of atmospheric muons, atmospheric neutrinos and the energy spectra of the expected neutrino signals. No significant excess over the background is observed and $90\%$ C.L. upper limits on the neutrino flux, the spin--dependent and spin--independent WIMP-nucleon cross--sections are derived for WIMP masses ranging from $ \rm 50$ GeV to $\rm 5$ TeV for the annihilation channels $\rm WIMP + WIMP \to b \bar b, W^+ W^-$ and $\rm \tau^+ \tau^-$., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to Physics letters B
Published: 2016
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48. High-energy Neutrino follow-up search of Gravitational Wave Event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Glotin, H., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., Illuminati, G., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Nezri, E., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Roensch, K., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Sánchez-Losa, A., Taiuti, M., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Turpin, D., Vallage, C. T B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Aartsen, . M. G., Abraham, K., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Altmann, D., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Archinger, M., Arguelles, C., Arlen, T. C., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., Beiser, E., BenZvi, S., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, D. J., Bohm, C., Börner, M., Bos, F., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Braun, J., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Buzinsky, N., Casey, J., Casier, M., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coenders, S., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Cowen, D. F., Silva, A. H. Cruz, Daughhetee, J., Davis, J. C., Day, M., de André, J. P. A. M., De Clercq, C., Rosendo, E. del Pino, Dembinski, H., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., di Lorenzo, V., Dujmovic, H., Dumm, J. P., Dunkman, M., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the high-energy-neutrino follow-up observations of the first gravitational wave transient GW150914 observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors on Sept. 14th, 2015. We search for coincident neutrino candidates within the data recorded by the IceCube and ANTARES neutrino detectors. A possible joint detection could be used in targeted electromagnetic follow-up observations, given the significantly better angular resolution of neutrino events compared to gravitational waves. We find no neutrino candidates in both temporal and spatial coincidence with the gravitational wave event. Within 500 s of the gravitational wave event, the number of neutrino candidates detected by IceCube and ANTARES were three and zero, respectively. This is consistent with the expected atmospheric background, and none of the neutrino candidates were directionally coincident with GW150914. We use this non-detection to constrain neutrino emission from the gravitational-wave event., Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2016
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49. Letter of Intent for KM3NeT 2.0

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., Ageron, M., Aharonian, F., Aiello, S., Albert, A., Ameli, F., Anassontzis, E., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Avgitas, T., Barbarino, G., Barbarito, E., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Belhorma, B., Belias, A., Berbee, E., Berg, A. van den, Bertin, V., Beurthey, S., van Beveren, V., Beverini, N., Biagi, S., Biagioni, A., Billault, M., Bond, M., Bormuth, R., Bouhadef, B., Bourlis, G., Bourret, S., Boutonnet, C., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Buis, E., Busto, J., Cacopardo, G., Caillat, L., Calamai, M., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Cecchini, S., Celli, S., Champion, C., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Classen, L., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Colonges, S., Coniglione, R., Cordelli, M., Cosquer, A., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., D'Amico, A., De Bonis, G., De Rosa, G., De Sio, C., Di Capua, F., Di Palma, I., García, A. F. Díaz, Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti-Hasankiadeh, Q., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Drury, L., Durocher, M., Eberl, T., Eichie, S., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Khayati, N. El, Elsaesser, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fassi, F., Favali, P., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Frascadore, G., Filippidis, C., Fusco, L. A., Gal, T., Galatà, S., Garufi, F., Gay, P., Gebyehu, M., Giordano, V., Gizani, N., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grégoire, T., Grella, G., Habel, R., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Harissopulos, S., Heid, T., Heijboer, A., Heine, E., Henry, S., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hevinga, M., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C. M. F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jansweijer, P., Jongen, M., de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Kappes, A., Katz, U. F., Keller, P., Kieft, G., Kießling, D., Koffeman, E. N., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamare, P., Leisos, A., Leonora, E., Clark, M. Lindsey, Liolios, A., Alvarez, C. D. Llorens, Presti, D. Lo, Löhner, H., Lonardo, A., Lotze, M., Loucatos, S., Maccioni, E., Mannheim, K., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Mariş, O., Markou, C., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Mele, R., Melis, K. W., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miraglia, A., Mollo, C. M., Mongelli, M., Morganti, M., Moussa, A., Musico, P., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Olcina, I., Olivetto, C., Orlando, A., Papaikonomou, A., Papaleo, R., Păvălaş, G. E., Peek, H., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Pfutzner, M., Piattelli, P., Pikounis, K., Poma, G. E., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Pratolongo, F., Pühlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Rapidis, P., Razis, P., Real, D., Resvanis, L., Reubelt, J., Riccobene, G., Rossi, C., Rovelli, A., Saldaña, M., Salvadori, I., Samtleben, D. F. E., García, A. Sánchez, Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schimmel, F., Schmelling, J., Sciacca, V., Sedita, M., Seitz, T., Sgura, I., Simeone, F., Siotis, I., Sipala, V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, G., Steijger, J., Stellacci, S. M., Stransky, D., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tézier, D., Theraube, S., Thompson, L., Timmer, P., Tönnis, C., Trasatti, L., Trovato, A., Tsirigotis, A., Tzamarias, S., Tzamariudaki, E., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Vermeulen, J., Vicini, P., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Volkert, M., Voulgaris, G., Wiggers, L., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Zachariadou, K., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The main objectives of the KM3NeT Collaboration are i) the discovery and subsequent observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the Universe and ii) the determination of the mass hierarchy of neutrinos. These objectives are strongly motivated by two recent important discoveries, namely: 1) The high-energy astrophysical neutrino signal reported by IceCube and 2) the sizable contribution of electron neutrinos to the third neutrino mass eigenstate as reported by Daya Bay, Reno and others. To meet these objectives, the KM3NeT Collaboration plans to build a new Research Infrastructure consisting of a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. A phased and distributed implementation is pursued which maximises the access to regional funds, the availability of human resources and the synergetic opportunities for the earth and sea sciences community. Three suitable deep-sea sites are identified, namely off-shore Toulon (France), Capo Passero (Italy) and Pylos (Greece). The infrastructure will consist of three so-called building blocks. A building block comprises 115 strings, each string comprises 18 optical modules and each optical module comprises 31 photo-multiplier tubes. Each building block thus constitutes a 3-dimensional array of photo sensors that can be used to detect the Cherenkov light produced by relativistic particles emerging from neutrino interactions. Two building blocks will be configured to fully explore the IceCube signal with different methodology, improved resolution and complementary field of view, including the Galactic plane. One building block will be configured to precisely measure atmospheric neutrino oscillations., Comment: 119 pages, published version, revised Eq. 6, 7
Published: 2016
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50. Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube

Author: Albert, A, André, M, Anghinolfi, M, Anton, G, Ardid, M, Aubert, J-J, Avgitas, T, Baret, B, Barrios-Martí, J, Basa, S, Bertin, V, Biagi, S, Bormuth, R, Bourret, S, Bouwhuis, MC, Bruijn, R, Brunner, J, Busto, J, Capone, A, Caramete, L, Carr, J, Celli, S, Chiarusi, T, Circella, M, Coelho, JAB, Coleiro, A, Coniglione, R, Costantini, H, Coyle, P, Creusot, A, Deschamps, A, De Bonis, G, Distefano, C, Di Palma, I, Donzaud, C, Dornic, D, Drouhin, D, Eberl, T, Bojaddaini, I El, Elsässer, D, Enzenhöfer, A, Felis, I, Fusco, LA, Galatà, S, Gay, P, Giordano, V, Glotin, H, Grégoire, T, Ruiz, R Gracia, Graf, K, Hallmann, S, van Haren, H, Heijboer, AJ, Hello, Y, Hernández-Rey, JJ, Hößl, J, Hofestädt, J, Hugon, C, Illuminati, G, James, CW, de Jong, M, Jongen, M, Kadler, M, Kalekin, O, Katz, U, Kießling, D, Kouchner, A, Kreter, M, Kreykenbohm, I, Kulikovskiy, V, Lachaud, C, Lahmann, R, Lefèvre, D, Leonora, E, Lotze, M, Loucatos, S, Marcelin, M, Margiotta, A, Marinelli, A, Martínez-Mora, JA, Mathieu, A, Mele, R, Melis, K, Michael, T, Migliozzi, P, Moussa, A, Nezri, E, Păvălaş, GE, Pellegrino, C, Perrina, C, Piattelli, P, Popa, V, Pradier, T, Quinn, L, Racca, C, Riccobene, G, Sánchez-Losa, A, Saldaña, M, Salvadori, I, and Samtleben, DFE
Subjects: astro-ph.HE, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: The Advanced LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers during their first observation run (O1). We present a high-energy neutrino follow-up search for the second gravitational wave event, GW151226, as well as for gravitational wave candidate LVT151012. We find two and four neutrino candidates detected by IceCube, and one and zero detected by Antares, within ±500 s around the respective gravitational wave signals, consistent with the expected background rate. None of these neutrino candidates are found to be directionally coincident with GW151226 or LVT151012. We use nondetection to constrain isotropic-equivalent high-energy neutrino emission from GW151226, adopting the GW event's 3D localization, to less than 2×1051-2×1054 erg.
Published: 2017

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