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1. Hadronic cross section measurements with the DAMPE space mission using 20GeV-10TeV cosmic-ray protons and $^4$He

Author: Alemanno, F., An, Q., Azzarello, P., Barbato, F. C. T., Bernardini, P., Bi, X. J., Cagnoli, I., Cai, M. S., Casilli, E., Catanzani, E., Chang, J., Chen, D. Y., Chen, J. L., Chen, Z. F., Coppin, P., Cui, M. Y., Cui, T. S., Cui, Y. X., Dai, H. T., De Benedittis, A., De Mitri, I., de Palma, F., Di Giovanni, A., Ding, Q., Dong, T. K., Dong, Z. X., Donvito, G., Droz, D., Duan, J. L., Duan, K. K., Fan, R. R., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, F., Fang, K., Feng, C. Q., Feng, L., Frieden, J. M., Fusco, P., Gao, M., Gargano, F., Gong, K., Gong, Y. Z., Guo, D. Y., Guo, J. H., Han, S. X., Hu, Y. M., Huang, G. S., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y. Y., Ionica, M., Jiang, L. Y., Jiang, Y. Z., Jiang, W., Kong, J., Kotenko, A., Kyratzis, D., Lei, S. J., Li, W. H., Li, W. L., Li, X., Li, X. Q., Liang, Y. M., Liu, C. M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, S. B., Liu, Y., Loparco, F., Luo, C. N., Ma, M., Ma, P. X., Ma, T., Ma, X. Y., Marsella, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mo, D., Niu, X. Y., Pan, X., Parenti, A., Peng, W. X., Peng, X. Y., Perrina, C., Putti-Garcia, E., Qiao, R., Rao, J. N., Ruina, A., Sarkar, R., Savina, P., Serpolla, A., Shangguan, Z., Shen, W. H., Shen, Z. Q., Shen, Z. T., Silveri, L., Song, J. X., Stolpovskiy, M., Su, H., Su, M., Sun, H. R., Sun, Z. Y., Surdo, A., Teng, X. J., Tykhonov, A., Wang, J. Z., Wang, L. G., Wang, S., Wang, S. X., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. F., Wang, Y. Z., Wang, Z. M., Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. F., Wu, D., Wu, J., Wu, S. S., Wu, X., Xia, Z. Q., Xu, H. T., Xu, J., Xu, Z. H., Xu, Z. L., Xu, E. H., Xu, Z. Z., Xue, G. F., Yang, H. B., Yang, P., Yang, Y. Q., Yao, H. J., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, G. W., Yuan, Q., Yue, C., Zang, J. J., Zhang, S. X., Zhang, W. Z., Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Y. J., Zhang, Y. L., Zhang, Y. P., Zhang, Y. Q., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z. Y., Zhao, C., Zhao, H. Y., Zhao, X. F., Zhou, C. Y., and Zhu, Y.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Precise direct cosmic-ray (CR) measurements provide an important probe to study the energetic particle sources in our Galaxy, and the interstellar environment through which these particles propagate. Uncertainties on hadronic models, ion-nucleon cross sections in particular, are currently the limiting factor towards obtaining more accurate CR ion flux measurements with calorimetric space-based experiments. We present an energy-dependent measurement of the inelastic cross section of protons and helium-4 nuclei (alpha particles) on a Bi$_4$Ge$_3$O$_{12}$ target, using 88 months of data collected by the DAMPE space mission. The kinetic energy range per nucleon of the measurement points ranges from 18 GeV to 9 TeV for protons, and from 5 GeV/n to 3 TeV/n for helium-4 nuclei. Our results lead to a significant improvement of the CR flux normalisation. In the case of helium-4, these results correspond to the first cross section measurements on a heavy target material at energies above 10 GeV/n., Comment: 17 pages, submitted to PRD
Published: 2024

2. Measurement of the cosmic p+He energy spectrum from 50 GeV to 0.5 PeV with the DAMPE space mission

Author: DAMPE Collaboration, Alemanno, F., Altomare, C., An, Q., Azzarello, P., Barbato, F. C. T., Bernardini, P., Bi, X. J., Cagnoli, I., Cai, M. S., Casilli, E., Catanzani, E., Chang, J., Chen, D. Y., Chen, J. L., Chen, Z. F., Coppin, P., Cui, M. Y., Cui, T. S., Cui, Y. X., Dai, H. T., De Benedittis, A., De Mitri, I., de Palma, F., Deliyergiyev, M., Di Giovanni, A., Di Santo, M., Ding, Q., Dong, T. K., Dong, Z. X., Donvito, G., Droz, D., Duan, J. L., Duan, K. K., Fan, R. R., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, F., Fang, K., Feng, C. Q., Feng, L., Alonso, M. Fernandez, Frieden, J. M., Fusco, P., Gao, M., Gargano, F., Gong, K., Gong, Y. Z., Guo, D. Y., Guo, J. H., Han, S. X., Hu, Y. M., Huang, G. S., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y. Y., Ionica, M., Jiang, L. Y., Jiang, Y. Z., Jiang, W., Kong, J., Kotenko, A., Kyratzis, D., Lei, S. J., Li, W. H., Li, W. L., Li, X., Li, X. Q., Liang, Y. M., Liu, C. M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, S. B., Liu, Y., Loparco, F., Luo, C. N., Ma, M., Ma, P. X., Ma, T., Ma, X. Y., Marsella, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mo, D., Salinas, M. Muñoz, Niu, X. Y., Pan, X., Parenti, A., Peng, W. X., Peng, X. Y., Perrina, C., Putti-Garcia, E., Qiao, R., Rao, J. N., Ruina, A., Shangguan, Z., Shen, W. H., Shen, Z. Q., Shen, Z. T., Silveri, L., Song, J. X., Stolpovskiy, M., Su, H., Su, M., Sun, H. R., Sun, Z. Y., Surdo, A., Teng, X. J., Tykhonov, A., Wang, J. Z., Wang, L. G., Wang, S., Wang, S. X., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. F., Wang, Y. Z., Wang, Z. M., Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. F., Wu, D., Wu, J., Wu, L. B., Wu, S. S., Wu, X., Xia, Z. Q., Xu, H. T., Xu, J., Xu, Z. H., Xu, Z. L., Xu, E. H., Xu, Z. Z., Xue, G. F., Yang, H. B., Yang, P., Yang, Y. Q., Yao, H. J., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, G. W., Yuan, Q., Yue, C., Zang, J. J., Zhang, S. X., Zhang, W. Z., Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Y. J., Zhang, Y. L., Zhang, Y. P., Zhang, Y. Q., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z. Y., Zhao, C., Zhao, H. Y., Zhao, X. F., Zhou, C. Y., and Zhu, Y.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Recent observations of the light component of the cosmic-ray spectrum have revealed unexpected features that motivate further and more precise measurements up to the highest energies. The Dark Matter Particle Explorer is a satellite-based cosmic-ray experiment that has been operational since December 2015, continuously collecting data on high-energy cosmic particles with very good statistics, energy resolution, and particle identification capabilities. In this work, the latest measurements of the energy spectrum of proton+helium in the energy range from 46 GeV to 464 TeV are presented. Among the most distinctive features of the spectrum, a spectral hardening at 600 GeV has been observed, along with a softening at 29 TeV measured with a 6.6{\sigma} significance. Moreover, the detector features and the analysis approach allowed for the extension of the spectral measurement up to the sub-PeV region. Even if with small statistical significance due to the low number of events, data suggest a new spectral hardening at about 150 TeV., Comment: Published on PRD
Published: 2023
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3. Search for relativistic fractionally charged particles in space

Author: DAMPE Collaboration, Alemanno, F., Altomare, C., An, Q., Azzarello, P., Barbato, F. C. T., Bernardini, P., Bi, X. J., Cai, M. S., Casilli, E., Catanzani, E., Chang, J., Chen, D. Y., Chen, J. L., Chen, Z. F., Cui, M. Y., Cui, T. S., Cui, Y. X., Dai, H. T., De-Benedittis, A., De Mitri, I., de Palma, F., Deliyergiyev, M., Di Giovanni, A., Di Santo, M., Ding, Q., Dong, T. K., Dong, Z. X., Donvito, G., Droz, D., Duan, J. L., Duan, K. K., D'Urso, D., Fan, R. R., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, F., Fang, K., Feng, C. Q., Feng, L., Alonso, M. F., Frieden, J. M., Fusco, P., Gao, M., Gargano, F., Gong, K., Gong, Y. Z., Guo, D. Y., Guo, J. H., Han, S. X., Hu, Y. M., Huang, G. S., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y. Y., Ionica, M., Jiang, L. Y., Jiang, W., Kong, J., Kotenko, A., Kyratzis, D., Lei, S. J., Li, W. L., Li, W. H., Li, X., Li, X. Q., Liang, Y. M., Liu, C. M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, S. B., Liu, Y., Loparco, F., Luo, C. N., Ma, M., Ma, P. X., Ma, T., Ma, X. Y., Marsella, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mo, D., Salinas, M. M., Niu, X. Y., Pan, X., Parenti, A., Peng, W. X., Peng, X. Y., Perrina, C., Qiao, R., Rao, J. N., Ruina, A., Shangguan, Z., Shen, W. H., Shen, Z. Q., Shen, Z. T., Silveri, L., Song, J. X., Stolpovskiy, M., Su, H., Su, M., Sun, H. R., Sun, Z. Y., Surdo, A., Teng, X. J., Tykhonov, A., Wang, J. Z., Wang, L. G., Wang, S., Wang, S. X., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. F., Wang, Y. Z., Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. F., Wu, D., Wu, J., Wu, L. B., Wu, S. S., Wu, X., Xia, Z. Q., Xu, E. H., Xu, H. T., Xu, J., Xu, Z. H., Xu, Z. L., Xu, Z. Z., Xue, G. F., Yang, H. B., Yang, P., Yang, Y. Q., Yao, H. J., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, G. W., Yuan, Q., Yue, C., Zang, J. J., Zhang, S. X., Zhang, W. Z., Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Yi., Zhang, Y. J., Zhang, Y. L., Zhang, Y. P., Zhang, Y. Q., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z. Y., Zhao, C., Zhao, H. Y., Zhao, X. F., Zhou, C. Y., and Zhu, Y.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Physics - Space Physics
Abstract: More than a century after the performance of the oil drop experiment, the possible existence of fractionally charged particles FCP still remains unsettled. The search for FCPs is crucial for some extensions of the Standard Model in particle physics. Most of the previously conducted searches for FCPs in cosmic rays were based on experiments underground or at high altitudes. However, there have been few searches for FCPs in cosmic rays carried out in orbit other than AMS-01 flown by a space shuttle and BESS by a balloon at the top of the atmosphere. In this study, we conduct an FCP search in space based on on-orbit data obtained using the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite over a period of five years. Unlike underground experiments, which require an FCP energy of the order of hundreds of GeV, our FCP search starts at only a few GeV. An upper limit of $6.2\times 10^{-10}~~\mathrm{cm^{-2}sr^{-1} s^{-1}}$ is obtained for the flux. Our results demonstrate that DAMPE exhibits higher sensitivity than experiments of similar types by three orders of magnitude that more stringently restricts the conditions for the existence of FCP in primary cosmic rays., Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures, accepted by PRD
Published: 2022
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4. Measurement of the cosmic ray helium energy spectrum from 70 GeV to 80 TeV with the DAMPE space mission

Author: Alemanno, F., An, Q., Azzarello, P., Barbato, F. C. T., Bernardini, P., Bi, X. J., Cai, M. S., Catanzani, E., Chang, J., Chen, D. Y., Chen, J. L., Chen, Z. F., Cui, M. Y., Cui, T. S., Cui, Y. X., Dai, H. T., D'Amone, A., De Benedittis, A., De Mitri, I., de Palma, F., Deliyergiyev, M., Di Santo, M., Dong, T. K., Dong, Z. X., Donvito, G., Droz, D., Duan, J. L., Duan, K. K., D'Urso, D., Fan, R. R., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, K., Fang, F., Feng, C. Q., Feng, L., Fusco, P., Gao, M., Gargano, F., Gong, K., Gong, Y. Z., Guo, D. Y., Guo, J. H., Guo, X. L., Han, S. X., Hu, Y. M., Huang, G. S., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y. Y., Ionica, M., Jiang, W., Kong, J., Kotenko, A., Kyratzis, D., Lei, S. J., Li, S., Li, W. L., Li, X., Li, X. Q., Liang, Y. M., Liu, C. M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, S. B., Liu, W. Q., Liu, Y., Loparco, F., Luo, C. N., Ma, M., Ma, P. X., Ma, T., Ma, X. Y., Marsella, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mo, D., Niu, X. Y., Pan, X., Parenti, A., Peng, W. X., Peng, X. Y., Perrina, C., Qiao, R., Rao, J. N., Ruina, A., Salinas, M. M., Shang, G. Z., Shen, W. H., Shen, Z. Q., Shen, Z. T., Silveri, L., Song, J. X., Stolpovskiy, M., Su, H., Su, M., Sun, Z. Y., Surdo, A., Teng, X. J., Tykhonov, A., Wang, H., Wang, J. Z., Wang, L. G., Wang, S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. F., Wang, Y. Z., Wang, Z. M., Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. F., Wen, S. C., Wu, D., Wu, J., Wu, L. B., Wu, S. S., Wu, X., Xia, Z. Q., Xu, H. T., Xu, Z. H., Xu, Z. L., Xu, Z. Z., Xue, G. F., Yang, H. B., Yang, P., Yang, Y. Q., Yao, H. J., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, G. W., Yuan, Q., Yue, C., Zang, J. J., Zhang, F., Zhang, S. X., Zhang, W. Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. J., Zhang, Y. L., Zhang, Y. P., Zhang, Y. Q., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z. Y., Zhao, C., Zhao, H. Y., Zhao, X. F., Zhou, C. Y., and Zhu, Y.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic ray helium nuclei from 70 GeV to 80 TeV using 4.5 years of data recorded by the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is reported in this work. A hardening of the spectrum is observed at an energy of about 1.3 TeV, similar to previous observations. In addition, a spectral softening at about 34 TeV is revealed for the first time with large statistics and well controlled systematic uncertainties, with an overall significance of $4.3\sigma$. The DAMPE spectral measurements of both cosmic protons and helium nuclei suggest a particle charge dependent softening energy, although with current uncertainties a dependence on the number of nucleons cannot be ruled out., Comment: 11 pages, 13 figures, published in Phys. Rev. Lett. Add one more digit for first three columns in Table S2
Published: 2021
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5. 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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6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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. 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., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Organokov, M., Puavualacs, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Quinn, L., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Sanchez-Losa, A., Saldaña, 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., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., Vizzoca, A., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., Zuñiga, 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., Arguelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Bagherpour, H., Bai, X., 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., Borner, M., Bos, F., Bose, D., Boser, S., Botner, O., Bourbeau, E., Bourbeau, J., Bradascio, F., Braun, J., Brayeur, L., Brenzke, M., Bretz, H. -P., Bron, S., Brostean-Kaiser, J., Burgman, A., Carver, T., 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., Cross, R., Day, M., de Andre, J. P. A. M., De Clercq, C., DeLaunay, J. J., Dembinski, H., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Diaz-Velez, J. C., di Lorenzo, V., Dujmovic, H., Dumm, J. 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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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10. 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

11. 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

12. 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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13. 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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14. 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. A., Sha_er, T. J., Shahriar, M. S., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Sheperd, A., Shoemaker, D. H., Shoemaker, D. M., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sieniawska, M., Sigg, D., Silva, A. D., Singer, A., Singer, L. P., Singh, A., Singh, R., Singhal, A., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Smith, B., Smith, J. R., Smith, R. J. E., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Sorrentino, F., Souradeep, T., Spencer, A. P., Srivastava, A. K., Staley, A., Steinke, M., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steinmeyer, D., Stephens, B. C., Stevenson, S. P., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Stratta, G., Strigin, S. E., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sun, L., Sunil, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B. L., Szczepa_nczyk, M. J., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., T_apai, M., Taracchini, A., Taylor, R., Theeg, T., Thomas, E. G., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thrane, E., Tippens, T., Tiwari, S., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Toland, K., Tomlinson, C., Tonelli, M., Tornasi, Z., Torrie, C. 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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15. 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

16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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

20. 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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21. 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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22. 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

23. 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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24. Stacked search for time shifted high energy neutrinos from gamma ray bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Adrian-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios-Marti, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Elsasser, D., Enzenhofer, A., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geisselsoeder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernàndez-Rey, J. J., Hoessl, J., Hofestadt, J., Hugon, C., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kiessling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, C., Nezri, E., Pavalas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schussler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tonnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: A search for high-energy neutrino emission correlated with gamma-ray bursts outside the electromagnetic prompt-emission time window is presented. Using a stacking approach of the time delays between reported gamma-ray burst alerts and spatially coincident muon-neutrino signatures, data from the Antares neutrino telescope recorded between 2007 and 2012 are analysed. One year of public data from the IceCube detector between 2008 and 2009 have been also investigated. The respective timing profiles are scanned for statistically significant accumulations within 40 days of the Gamma Ray Burst, as expected from Lorentz Invariance Violation effects and some astrophysical models. No significant excess over the expected accidental coincidence rate could be found in either of the two data sets. The average strength of the neutrino signal is found to be fainter than one detectable neutrino signal per hundred gamma-ray bursts in the Antares data at 90% confidence level.
Published: 2016

25. 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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26. Murchison Widefield Array Limits on Radio Emission from ANTARES Neutrino Events

Author: Croft, S., Kaplan, D. L., Tingay, S. J., Murphy, T., Bell, M. E., Rowlinson, A., Adrian-Martinez, S., Ageron, M., Albert, A., Andre, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Avgitas, T., Baret, B., Barrios-Marti, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bormuth, R., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsasser, D., Enzenhofer, A., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Fusco, L. A., Galata, S., Gay, P., Geisselsoder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Glotin, H., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Hossl, J., Hofestadt, J., Hugon, C., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kiessling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lachaud, C., Lahmann, R., Lefevre, D., Leonora, E., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., 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., Saldana, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schussler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, T., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Turpin, D., Tonnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallee, C., Van Elewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., Zuniga, J., Klotz, A., Boer, M., Van Suu, A. Le, Akerlof, C., and Zheng, W.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present a search, using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), for electromagnetic counterparts to two candidate high energy neutrino events detected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope in 2013 November and 2014 March. These events were selected by ANTARES because they are consistent, within 0.4 degrees, with the locations of galaxies within 20 Mpc of Earth. Using MWA archival data at frequencies between 118 and 182 MHz, taken ~20 days prior to, at the same time as, and up to a year after the neutrino triggers, we look for transient or strongly variable radio sources consistent with the neutrino positions. No such counterparts are detected, and we set a 5 sigma upper limit for low-frequency radio emission of ~1E37 erg/s for progenitors at 20 Mpc. If the neutrino sources are instead not in nearby galaxies, but originate in binary neutron star coalescences, our limits place the progenitors at z > 0.2. While it is possible, due to the high background from atmospheric neutrinos, that neither event is astrophysical, the MWA observations are nevertheless among the first to follow up neutrino candidates in the radio, and illustrate the promise of wide-field instruments like MWA to detect electromagnetic counterparts to such events., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Published: 2016
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27. A search for Secluded Dark Matter in the Sun with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

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., Bou-Cabo, M., 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., 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., 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., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: A search for Secluded Dark Matter annihilation in the Sun using 2007-2012 data of the ANTARES neutrino telescope is presented. Three different cases are considered: a) detection of dimuons that result from the decay of the mediator, or neutrino detection from: b) mediator that decays into a dimuon and, in turn, into neutrinos, and c) mediator that decays directly into neutrinos. As no significant excess over background is observed, constraints are derived on the dark matter mass and the lifetime of the mediator.
Published: 2016
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28. 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. 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Z., Sun, L., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B. L., Szczepańczyk, M. J., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tápai, M., Tarabrin, S. P., Taracchini, A., Taylor, R., Theeg, T., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, E. G., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, S., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Tonelli, M., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Töyrä, D., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trifirò, D., Tringali, M. C., Trozzo, L., Tse, M., 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., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vinciguerra, S., Vine, D. J., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Voss, D., 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, X., Wang, Y., Ward, R. L., Warner, J., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Weßels, P., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Williams, R. D., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M. H., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Wright, J. L., Wu, G., Yablon, J., Yam, W., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yap, M. J., Yu, H., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zangrando, L., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zevin, M., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., Zhao, C., Zhou, M., Zhou, Z., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S. E., and Zweizig, J.
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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29. Constraints on the neutrino emission from the Galactic Ridge with the ANTARES telescope

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Compelling evidence for the existence of astrophysical neutrinos has been reported by the IceCube collaboration. Some features of the energy and declination distributions of IceCube events hint at a North/South asymmetry of the neutrino flux. This could be due to the presence of the bulk of our Galaxy in the Southern hemisphere. The ANTARES neutrino telescope, located in the Mediterranean Sea, has been taking data since 2007. It offers the best sensitivity to muon neutrinos produced by galactic cosmic ray interactions in this region of the sky. In this letter a search for an extended neutrino flux from the Galactic Ridge region is presented. Different models of neutrino production by cosmic ray propagation are tested. No excess of events is observed and upper limits for different neutrino flux spectral indices are set. This constrains the number of IceCube events possibly originating from the Galactic Ridge. A simple power-law extrapolation of the Fermi-LAT flux to associated IceCube High Energy Starting Events is excluded at 90% confidence level.
Published: 2016
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30. 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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31. First combined search for neutrino point-sources in the Southern Hemisphere with the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., 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., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., 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., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mathieu, A., 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., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Collaboration, IceCube, 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., 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., 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., Dumm, J. P., Dunkman, M., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Feintzeig, J., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fischer-Wasels, T., Flis, S., Fösig, C. -C., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gaior, R., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Gier, D., Gladstone, L., Glagla, M., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Góra, D., Grant, D., Griffith, Z., Groß, A., Ha, C., Haack, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hansen, E., Hansmann, B., Hanson, K., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Holzapfel, K., Homeier, A., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huber, M., Huelsnitz, W., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., In, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Japaridze, G. S., Jero, K., Jurkovic, M., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kauer, M., Keivani, A., Kelley, J. L., Kemp, J., Kheirandish, A., Kiryluk, J., Kläs, J., Klein, S. R., Kohnen, G., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Konietz, R., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Kroll, G., Kroll, M., Krückl, G., Kunnen, J., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larson, M. J., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Leuner, J., Lu, L., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Mahn, K. B. M., Mandelartz, M., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., Maunu, R., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Meli, A., Menne, T., Merino, G., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Middell, E., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Morse, R., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Obertacke, A., Pollmann, Olivas, A., Omairat, A., O'Murchadha, A., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V., Paul, L., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pfendner, C., Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Posselt, J., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Pütz, J., Quinnan, M., Raab, C., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Reimann, R., Relich, M., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Richter, S., Riedel, B., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Sabbatini, L., Sander, H. -G., Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Sarkar, S., Schatto, K., Scheriau, F., Schimp, M., Schmidt, T., Schmitz, M., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schönwald, A., Schulte, L., Schumacher, L., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stahlberg, M., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Ström, R., Strotjohann, N. L., Sullivan, G. W., Sutherland, M., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tatar, J., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tešić, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Tobin, M. N., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Turcati, A., Unger, E., Usner, M., Vallecorsa, S., Vandenbroucke, J., van Eijndhoven, N., Vanheule, S., van Santen, J., Veenkamp, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandkowsky, N., Weaver, Ch., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whelan, B. J., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wille, L., Williams, D. R., Wissing, H., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., and Zoll, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the results of searches for point-like sources of neutrinos based on the first combined analysis of data from both the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. The combination of both detectors which differ in size and location forms a window in the Southern sky where the sensitivity to point sources improves by up to a factor of two compared to individual analyses. Using data recorded by ANTARES from 2007 to 2012, and by IceCube from 2008 to 2011, we search for sources of neutrino emission both across the Southern sky and from a pre-selected list of candidate objects. No significant excess over background has been found in these searches, and flux upper limits for the candidate sources are presented for $E^{-2.5}$ and $E^{-2}$ power-law spectra with different energy cut-offs., Comment: 25 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Published: 2015
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32. The prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT detector

Author: KM3NeT Collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S., Ageron, M., Aharonian, F., Aiello, S., Albert, A., Ameli, F., Anassontzis, E. G., Androulakis, G. C., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Anvar, S., Ardid, M., Avgitas, T., Balasi, K., Band, H., Barbarino, G., Barbarito, E., Barbato, F., Baret, B., Baron, S., Barrios, J., Belias, A., Berbee, E., Berg, A. M. van den, Berkien, A., Bertin, V., Beurthey, S., van Beveren, V., Beverini, N., Biagi, S., Biagioni, A., Bianucci, S., Billault, M., Birbas, A., Rookhuizen, H. Boer, Bormuth, R., Bouché, V., Bouhadef, B., Bourlis, G., Boutonnet, C., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Cacopardo, G., Caillat, L., Calamai, M., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Caruso, F., Cecchini, S., Ceres, A., Cereseto, R., Champion, C., Château, F., Chiarusi, T., Christopoulou, B., Circella, M., Classen, L., Cocimano, R., Coleiro, A., Colonges, S., Coniglione, R., Cosquer, A., Costa, M., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., D'Amato, C., D'Amico, A., De Bonis, G., De Rosa, G., Deniskina, N., Destelle, J. -J., Distefano, C., Di Capua, F., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti-Hasankiadeh, Q., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Drury, L., Durand, D., Eberl, T., Elsaesser, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Fusco, L. A., Gajanana, D., Gal, T., Galatà, S., Garufi, F., Gebyehu, M., Giordano, V., Gizani, N., GraciaRuiz, R., Graf, K., Grasso, R., Grella, G., Grmek, A., Habel, R., van Haren, H., Heid, T., Heijboer, A., Heine, E., Henry, S., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herold, B., Hevinga, M. A., van der Hoek, M., Hofestädt, J., Hogenbirk, J., Hugon, C., Hößl, J., Imbesi, M., James, C. W., Jansweijer, P., Jochum, J., de Jong, M., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Kappes, A., Kappos, E., Katz, U., Kavatsyuk, O., Keller, P., Kieft, G., Koffeman, E., Kok, H., Kooijman, P., Koopstra, J., Korporaal, A., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamare, P., Larosa, G., Lattuada, D., Provost, H. Le, Leismüller, K. P., Leisos, A., Lenis, D., Leonora, E., LindseyClark, M., Alvarez, C. D. Llorens, Löhner, H., Lonardo, A., Loucatos, S., Louis, F., Maccioni, E., Mannheim, K., Manolopoulos, K., Margiotta, A., Mariş, O., Markou, C., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Masullo, R., Melis, K. W., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Miraglia, A., Mollo, C. M., Mongelli, M., Morganti, M., Mos, S., Moudden, Y., Musico, P., Musumeci, M., Nicolaou, C., Nicolau, C. A., Orlando, A., Orzelli, A., Papaikonomou, A., Papaleo, R., Păvălaş, G. E., Peek, H., Pellegrino, C., Pellegriti, M. G., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Pikounis, K., Popa, V., Pradier, Th., Priede, M., Pühlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Racca, C., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Rapidis, P. A., Razis, P., Real, D., Resvanis, L., Reubelt, J., Riccobene, G., Rovelli, A., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Sapienza, P., Schmelling, J., Schnabel, J., Sciacca, V., Sedita, M., Seitz, T., Sgura, I., Simeone, F., Sipala, V., Spitaleri, A., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, G., Steijger, J., Stolarczyk, T., Stransky, D., Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Tézier, D., Théraube, S., Thompson, L. F., Timmer, P., Trasatti, L., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tsirigotis, A., Tzamarias, S., Tzamariudaki, E., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Vermeulen, J., Vernin, P., Vicini, P., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Werneke, P., Wiggers, L., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., van Wooning, R. H. L., Zonca, E., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zwart, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: A prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT deep-sea neutrino telescope has been installed at 3500m depth 80km offshore the Italian coast. KM3NeT in its final configuration will contain several hundreds of detection units. Each detection unit is a mechanical structure anchored to the sea floor, held vertical by a submerged buoy and supporting optical modules for the detection of Cherenkov light emitted by charged secondary particles emerging from neutrino interactions. This prototype string implements three optical modules with 31 photomultiplier tubes each. These optical modules were developed by the KM3NeT Collaboration to enhance the detection capability of neutrino interactions. The prototype detection unit was operated since its deployment in May 2014 until its decommissioning in July 2015. Reconstruction of the particle trajectories from the data requires a nanosecond accuracy in the time calibration. A procedure for relative time calibration of the photomultiplier tubes contained in each optical module is described. This procedure is based on the measured coincidences produced in the sea by the 40K background light and can easily be expanded to a detector with several thousands of optical modules. The time offsets between the different optical modules are obtained using LED nanobeacons mounted inside them. A set of data corresponding to 600 hours of livetime was analysed. The results show good agreement with Monte Carlo simulations of the expected optical background and the signal from atmospheric muons. An almost background-free sample of muons was selected by filtering the time correlated signals on all the three optical modules. The zenith angle of the selected muons was reconstructed with a precision of about 3{\deg}., Comment: Accepted for publication by EPJ C
Published: 2015
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33. 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

34. Optical and X-ray early follow-up of ANTARES neutrino alerts

Author: Adrian-Martinez, S., Ageron, M., Albert, A., Samarai, I. Al, Andre, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios-Marti, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bogazzi, C., Bormuth, R., Bou-Cabo, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Elsasser, D., Enzenhofer, A., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galata, S., Gay, P., Geißelsoder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Herrero, A., Hoßl, J., Hofestadt, J., Hugon, C., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lambard, G., Lattuada, D., Lefevre, D., Leonora, E., Loucatos, S., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Pavalas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Saldana, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Sanchez-Losa, A., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tonnis, C., Turpin, D., Vallage, B., Vallee, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vecchi, M., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., Zuniga, J., Klotz, A., Boer, M., Van Suu, A. Le, Akerlof, C., Zheng, W., Evans, P., Gehrels, N., Kennea, J., Osborne, J. P., and Coward, D. M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: High-energy neutrinos could be produced in the interaction of charged cosmic rays with matter or radiation surrounding astrophysical sources. Even with the recent detection of extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos by the IceCube experiment, no astrophysical neutrino source has yet been discovered. Transient sources, such as gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae, or active galactic nuclei are promising candidates. Multi-messenger programs offer a unique opportunity to detect these transient sources. By combining the information provided by the ANTARES neutrino telescope with information coming from other observatories, the probability of detecting a source is enhanced, allowing the possibility of identifying a neutrino progenitor from a single detected event. A method based on optical and X-ray follow-ups of high-energy neutrino alerts has been developed within the ANTARES collaboration. This program, denoted as TAToO, triggers a network of robotic optical telescopes (TAROT and ROTSE) and the Swift-XRT with a delay of only a few seconds after a neutrino detection, and is therefore well-suited to search for fast transient sources. To identify an optical or X-ray counterpart to a neutrino signal, the images provided by the follow-up observations are analysed with dedicated pipelines. A total of 42 alerts with optical and 7 alerts with X-ray images taken with a maximum delay of 24 hours after the neutrino trigger have been analysed. No optical or X-ray counterparts associated to the neutrino triggers have been found, and upper limits on transient source magnitudes have been derived. The probability to reject the gamma-ray burst origin hypothesis has been computed for each alert.
Published: 2015
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35. Long term monitoring of the optical background in the Capo Passero deep-sea site with the NEMO tower prototype

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., Aiello, S., Ameli, F., Anghinolfi, M., Ardid, M., Barbarino, G., Barbarito, E., Barbato, F. C. T., Beverini, N., Biagi, S., Biagioni, A., Bouhadef, B., Bozza, C., Cacopardo, G., Calamai, M., Calí, C., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caruso, F., Ceres, A., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coniglione, R., Costa, M., Cuttone, G., D'Amato, C., D'Amico, A., De Bonis, G., De Luca, V., Deniskina, N., De Rosa, G., di Capua, F., Distefano, C., Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Flaminio, V., Fusco, L. A., Garufi, F., Giordano, V., Gmerk, A., Grasso, R., Grella, G., Hugon, C., Imbesi, M., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Larosa, G., Lattuada, D., Leismüller, K. P., Leonora, E., Litrico, P., Alvarez, C. D. Llorens, Lonardo, A., Longhitano, F., Presti, D. Lo, Maccioni, E., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martini, A., Masullo, R., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Miraglia, A., Mollo, C. M., Mongelli, M., Morganti, M., Musico, P., Musumeci, M., Nicolau, C. A., Orlando, A., Orzelli, A., Papaleo, R., Pellegrino, C., Pellegriti, M. G., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Pugliatti, C., Pulvirenti, S., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Rovelli, A., Saldaña, M., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Sciacca, V., Sgura, I., Simeone, F., Sipala, V., Speziale, F., Spitaleri, A., Spurio, M., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Trasatti, L., Trovato, A., Ventura, C., Vicini, P., Viola, S., and Vivolo, D.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The NEMO Phase-2 tower is the first detector which was operated underwater for more than one year at the "record" depth of 3500 m. It was designed and built within the framework of the NEMO (NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory) project. The 380 m high tower was successfully installed in March 2013 80 km offshore Capo Passero (Italy). This is the first prototype operated on the site where the italian node of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope will be built. The installation and operation of the NEMO Phase-2 tower has proven the functionality of the infrastructure and the operability at 3500 m depth. A more than one year long monitoring of the deep water characteristics of the site has been also provided. In this paper the infrastructure and the tower structure and instrumentation are described. The results of long term optical background measurements are presented. The rates show stable and low baseline values, compatible with the contribution of 40K light emission, with a small percentage of light bursts due to bioluminescence. All these features confirm the stability and good optical properties of the site., Comment: 12 pages, 17 figures
Published: 2015
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36. Time calibration with atmospheric muon tracks in the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bogazzi, C., Bormuth, R., Bou-Cabo, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Flaminio, V., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Gómez-González, J. P., Graf, K., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herrero, A., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R, Lambard, G., Lattuada, D., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loucatos, S., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tönnis, C., Turpin, D., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The ANTARES experiment consists of an array of photomultipliers distributed along 12 lines and located deep underwater in the Mediterranean Sea. It searches for astrophysical neutrinos collecting the Cherenkov light induced by the charged particles, mainly muons, produced in neutrino interactions around the detector. Since at energies of $\sim$10 TeV the muon and the incident neutrino are almost collinear, it is possible to use the ANTARES detector as a neutrino telescope and identify a source of neutrinos in the sky starting from a precise reconstruction of the muon trajectory. To get this result, the arrival times of the Cherenkov photons must be accurately measured. A to perform time calibrations with the precision required to have optimal performances of the instrument is described. The reconstructed tracks of the atmospheric muons in the ANTARES detector are used to determine the relative time offsets between photomultipliers. Currently, this method is used to obtain the time calibration constants for photomultipliers on different lines at a precision level of 0.5 ns. It has also been validated for calibrating photomultipliers on the same line, using a system of LEDs and laser light devices., Comment: Submitted to Astroparticle Physics (17 pages, 11 figures)
Published: 2015
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37. Search for muon-neutrino emission from GeV and TeV gamma-ray flaring blazars using five years of data of the ANTARES telescope

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bogazzi, C., Bormuth, R., Bou-Cabo, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herrero, A., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lambard, G., Lattuada, D., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loucatos, S., Mangano, S., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Sánchez-Losa, A., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tönnis, C., Turpin, D., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The ANTARES telescope is well-suited for detecting astrophysical transient neutrino sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all times with a high duty cycle. The background due to atmospheric particles can be drastically reduced, and the point-source sensitivity improved, by selecting a narrow time window around possible neutrino production periods. Blazars, being radio-loud active galactic nuclei with their jets pointing almost directly towards the observer, are particularly attractive potential neutrino point sources, since they are among the most likely sources of the very high-energy cosmic rays. Neutrinos and gamma rays may be produced in hadronic interactions with the surrounding medium. Moreover, blazars generally show high time variability in their light curves at different wavelengths and on various time scales. This paper presents a time-dependent analysis applied to a selection of flaring gamma-ray blazars observed by the FERMI/LAT experiment and by TeV Cherenkov telescopes using five years of ANTARES data taken from 2008 to 2012. The results are compatible with fluctuations of the background. Upper limits on the neutrino fluence have been produced and compared to the measured gamma-ray spectral energy distribution., Comment: 27 pages, 16 figures
Published: 2015
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38. Search of Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Centre using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bogazzi, C., Bormuth, R., Bou-Cabo, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., DeBonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., vanHaren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herrero, A., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., WJames, C., deJong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lambard, G., Lattuada, D., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loucatos, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Mueller, C., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Sánchez-Losa, A., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., VanElewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: A search for high-energy neutrinos coming from the direction of the Galactic Centre is performed using the data recorded by the ANTARES neutrino telescope from 2007 to 2012. The event selection criteria are chosen to maximise the sensitivity to possible signals produced by the self-annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles accumulated around the centre of the Milky Way with respect to the atmospheric background. After data unblinding, the number of neutrinos observed in the line of sight of the Galactic Centre is found to be compatible with background expectations. The 90% C.L. upper limits in terms of the neutrino+anti-neutrino flux, $\rm \Phi_{\nu_{\mu}+\bar{\nu}_\mu}$, and the velocity averaged annihilation cross-section, $\rm <\sigma_{A}v>$, are derived for the WIMP self-annihilation channels into $\rm b\bar{b},W^{+}W^{-},\tau^{+}\tau^{-},\mu^{+}\mu^{-},\nu\bar{\nu}$. The ANTARES limits for $\rm <\sigma_{A}v>$ are shown to be the most stringent for a neutrino telescope over the WIMP masses $\rm 25\,GeV < M_{WIMP} < 10\,TeV$., Comment: 26 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables
Published: 2015
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39. ANTARES Constrains a Blazar Origin of Two IceCube PeV Neutrino Events

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bogazzi, C., Bormuth, R., Bou-Cabo, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., De Rosa, G., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti, Q., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Enzenhöfer, A., Escoffier, S., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gómez-González, J. P., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., Guillard, G., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herrero, A., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loehner, H., Loucatos, S., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Palioselitis, D., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spies, A., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., de Wolf, E., Yepes, H., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Collaboration, TANAMI, Krauß, F., Kadler, M., Mannheim, K., Schulz, R., Trüstedt, J., Wilms, J., Ojha, R., Ros, E., Baumgartner, W., Beuchert, T., Blanchard, J., Bürkel, C., Carpenter, B., Edwards, P. G., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsässer, D., Fritsch, U., Gehrels, N., Gräfe, C., Großberger, C., Hase, H., Horiuchi, S., Kappes, A., Kreikenbohm, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Langejahn, M., Leiter, K., Litzinger, E., Lovell, J. E. J., Müller, C., Phillips, C., Plötz, C., Quick, J., Steinbring, T., Stevens, J., Thompson, D. J., and Tzioumis, A. K.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The source(s) of the neutrino excess reported by the IceCube Collaboration is unknown. The TANAMI Collaboration recently reported on the multiwavelength emission of six bright, variable blazars which are positionally coincident with two of the most energetic IceCube events. Objects like these are prime candidates to be the source of the highest-energy cosmic rays, and thus of associated neutrino emission. We present an analysis of neutrino emission from the six blazars using observations with the ANTARES neutrino telescope.The standard methods of the ANTARES candidate list search are applied to six years of data to search for an excess of muons --- and hence their neutrino progenitors --- from the directions of the six blazars described by the TANAMI Collaboration, and which are possibly associated with two IceCube events. Monte Carlo simulations of the detector response to both signal and background particle fluxes are used to estimate the sensitivity of this analysis for different possible source neutrino spectra. A maximum-likelihood approach, using the reconstructed energies and arrival directions of through-going muons, is used to identify events with properties consistent with a blazar origin.Both blazars predicted to be the most neutrino-bright in the TANAMI sample (1653$-$329 and 1714$-$336) have a signal flux fitted by the likelihood analysis corresponding to approximately one event. This observation is consistent with the blazar-origin hypothesis of the IceCube event IC14 for a broad range of blazar spectra, although an atmospheric origin cannot be excluded. No ANTARES events are observed from any of the other four blazars, including the three associated with IceCube event IC20. This excludes at a 90\% confidence level the possibility that this event was produced by these blazars unless the neutrino spectrum is flatter than $-2.4$., Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2015
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40. Measurement of the atmospheric muon depth intensity relation with the NEMO Phase-2 tower

Author: Aiello, S., Ameli, F., Anghinolfi, M., Barbarino, G., Barbarito, E., Barbato, F., Beverini, N., Biagi, S., Bouhadef, B., Bozza, C., Cacopardo, G., Calamai, M., Calì, C., Capone, A., Caruso, F., Ceres, A., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coniglione, R., Costa, M., Cuttone, G., D'Amato, C., D'Amico, A., De Bonis, G., De Luca, V., Deniskina, N., De Rosa, G., Di Capua, F., Distefano, C., Fermani, P., Fusco, L. A., Garufi, F., Giordano, V., Gmerk, A., Grasso, R., Grella, G., Hugon, C., Imbesi, M., Kulikovskiy, V., Larosa, G., Lattuada, D., Leismueller, K. P., Leonora, E., Litrico, P., Lonardo, A., Longhitano, F., Presti, D. Lo, Maccioni, E., Margiotta, A., Martini, A., Masullo, R., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Miraglia, A., Mollo, C. M., Mongelli, M., Morganti, M., Musico, P., Musumeci, M., Nicolau, C. A., Orlando, A., Papaleo, R., Pellegrino, C., Pellegriti, M. G., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Pugliatti, C., Pulvirenti, S., Orselli, A., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Riccobene, G., Rovelli, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Sciacca, V., Sgura, I., Simeone, F., Sipala, V., Speziale, F., Spina, M., Spitaleri, A., Spurio, M., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Trasatti, L., Trovato, A., Ventura, C., Vicini, P., Viola, S., and Vivolo, D.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The results of the analysis of the data collected with the NEMO Phase-2 tower, deployed at 3500 m depth about 80 km off-shore Capo Passero (Italy), are presented. Cherenkov photons detected with the photomultipliers tubes were used to reconstruct the tracks of atmospheric muons. Their zenith-angle distribution was measured and the results compared with Monte Carlo simulations. An evaluation of the systematic effects due to uncertainties on environmental and detector parameters is also included. The associated depth intensity relation was evaluated and compared with previous measurements and theoretical predictions. With the present analysis, the muon depth intensity relation has been measured up to 13 km of water equivalent., Comment: submitted to Astroparticle Physics
Published: 2014
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41. 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., El Bojaddaini, I., 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., 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., 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.
Published: 2020
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42. High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S, Albert, A, André, M, Anghinolfi, M, Anton, G, Ardid, M, Aubert, JJ, Avgitas, T, Baret, B, Barrios-Martí, J, Basa, S, Bertin, V, Biagi, S, Bormuth, R, Bouwhuis, MC, 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, El Bojaddaini, I, Elsässer, D, Enzenhöfer, A, Fehn, K, Felis, I, Fusco, LA, 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, 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, Loucatos, S, Marcelin, M, Margiotta, A, Marinelli, A, Martínez-Mora, JA, Mathieu, A, Melis, K, Michael, T, Migliozzi, P, Moussa, A, Mueller, C, Nezri, E, PǍvǍlaş, GE, Pellegrino, C, Perrina, C, Piattelli, P, Popa, V, Pradier, T, Racca, C, Riccobene, G, Roensch, K, Saldaña, M, Samtleben, DFE, Sánchez-Losa, A, and Sanguineti, M
Subjects: astro-ph.HE
Abstract: We present the high-energy-neutrino follow-up observations of the first gravitational wave transient GW150914 observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 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 nondetection to constrain neutrino emission from the gravitational-wave event.
Published: 2016

43. THE FIRST COMBINED SEARCH FOR NEUTRINO POINT-SOURCES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE WITH THE ANTARES AND ICECUBE NEUTRINO TELESCOPES

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S, Albert, A, André, M, Anton, G, Ardid, M, Aubert, J-J, Baret, B, Barrios-Martí, J, Basa, S, Bertin, V, Biagi, S, Bormuth, R, Bouwhuis, MC, Bruijn, R, Brunner, J, Busto, J, Capone, A, Caramete, L, Carr, J, Chiarusi, T, Circella, M, Coniglione, R, Costantini, H, Coyle, P, Creusot, A, Dekeyser, I, Deschamps, A, De Bonis, G, Distefano, C, Donzaud, C, Dornic, D, Drouhin, D, Dumas, A, Eberl, T, Elsässer, D, Enzenhöfer, A, Fehn, K, Felis, I, Fermani, P, Folger, F, Fusco, LA, Galatà, S, Gay, P, Geißelsöder, S, Geyer, K, Giordano, V, Gleixner, A, Gracia-Ruiz, R, Graf, K, Hallmann, S, van Haren, H, Heijboer, AJ, Hello, Y, Hernández-Rey, JJ, Hößl, J, Hofestädt, J, Hugon, C, James, CW, de Jong, M, Kadler, M, Kalekin, O, Katz, U, Kießling, D, Kooijman, P, Kouchner, A, Kreter, M, Kreykenbohm, I, Kulikovskiy, V, Lahmann, R, Lefèvre, D, Leonora, E, Loucatos, S, Marcelin, M, Margiotta, A, Marinelli, A, Martínez-Mora, JA, Mathieu, A, Michael, T, Migliozzi, P, Moussa, A, Mueller, C, Nezri, E, Păvălaş, GE, Pellegrino, C, Perrina, C, Piattelli, P, Popa, V, Pradier, T, Racca, C, Riccobene, G, Richter, R, Roensch, K, Saldaña, M, Samtleben, DFE, Sánchez-Losa, A, Sanguineti, M, Sapienza, P, Schmid, J, Schnabel, J, and Schüssler, F
Subjects: astroparticle physics, neutrinos, hep-ex, astro-ph.HE, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astronomy & Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the results of searches for point-like sources of neutrinos based on the first combined analysis of data from both the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. The combination of both detectors, which differ in size and location, forms a window in the southern sky where the sensitivity to point sources improves by up to a factor of 2 compared with individual analyses. Using data recorded by ANTARES from 2007 to 2012, and by IceCube from 2008 to 2011, we search for sources of neutrino emission both across the southern sky and from a preselected list of candidate objects. No significant excess over background has been found in these searches, and flux upper limits for the candidate sources are presented for E -2.5 and E -2 power-law spectra with different energy cut-offs.
Published: 2016

44. Constraining the neutrino emission of gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars with ANTARES data

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios-Martì, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bogazzi, C., Bormuth, R., Bou-Cabo, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Core, L., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., De Rosa, G., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., DeBonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti, Q., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Escoffier, S., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gómez-González, J. P., Graf, K., Guillard, G., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herold, B., Herrero, A., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Kappes, A., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lambard, E., Lambard, G., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loehner, H., Loucatos, S., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Müller, C., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Palioselitis, D., Păvălaş, G. E., Perrina, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spies, A., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yatkin, K., Yepes, H., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Falco, E. E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: This paper proposes to exploit gravitational lensing effects to improve the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to the intrinsic neutrino emission of distant blazar populations. This strategy is illustrated with a search for cosmic neutrinos in the direction of four distant and gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars. The magnification factor is estimated for each system assuming a singular isothermal profile for the lens. Based on data collected from 2007 to 2012 by the ANTARES neutrino telescope, the strongest constraint is obtained from the lensed quasar B0218+357, providing a limit on the total neutrino luminosity of this source of $1.08\times 10^{46}\,\mathrm{erg}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}$. This limit is about one order of magnitude lower than those previously obtained in the ANTARES standard point source searches with non-lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars., Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; abstract shortened and references added
Published: 2014
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45. Deep sea tests of a prototype of the KM3NeT digital optical module

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., Ageron, M., Aharonian, F., Aiello, S., Albert, A., Ameli, F., Anassontzis, E. G., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Anvar, S., Ardid, M., de Asmundis, R., Balasi, K., Band, H., Barbarino, G., Barbarito, E., Barbato, F., Baret, B., Baron, S., Belias, A., Berbee, E., Berg, A. M. van den, Berkien, A., Bertin, V., Beurthey, S., van Beveren, V., Beverini, N., Biagi, S., Bianucci, S., Billault, M., Birbas, A., Rookhuizen, H. Boer, Bormuth, R., Bouche, V., Bouhadef, B., Bourlis, G., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Cacopardo, G., Caillat, L., Calamai, M., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Caruso, F., Cecchini, S., Ceres, A., Cereseto, R., Champion, C., Chateau, F., Chiarusi, T., Christopoulou, B., Circella, M., Classen, L., Cocimano, R., Colonges, S., Coniglione, R., Cosquer, A., Costa, M., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Curtil, C., Cuttone, G., D'Amato, C., D'Amico, A., De Bonis, G., De Rosa, G., Deniskina, N., Destelle, J. -J., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti-Hasankiadeh, Q., Drakopoulou7, E., Drouhin, D., Drury, L., Durand, D., Eberl, T., Eleftheriadis, C., Elsaesser, D., Enzenhofer, A., Fermani, P., Fusco, L. A., Gajana, D., Gal, T., Galata, S., Gallo, F., Garufi, F., Gebyehu, M., Giordano, V., Gizani, N., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Grasso, R., Grella, G., Grmek, A., Habel, R., van Haren, H., Heid, T., Heijboer, A., Heine, E., Henry, S., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Herold, B., Hevinga, M. A., van der Hoek, M., Hofestadt, J., Hogenbirk, J., Hugon, C., Hosl, J., Imbesi, M., James, C., Jansweijer, P., Jochum, J., de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Kappes, A., Kappos, E., Katz, U., Kavatsyuk, O., Keller, P., Kieft, G., Koffeman, E., Kok, H., Kooijman, P., Koopstra, J., Korporaal, A., Kouchner, A., Koutsoukos, S., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamare, P., Larosa, G., Lattuada, D., Provost, H. Le, Leisos, A., Lenis, D., Leonora, E., Clark, M. Lindsey, Liolios, A., Alvarez, C. D. Llorens, Lohner, H., Presti, D. Lo, Louis, F., Maccioni, E., Mannheim, K., Manolopoulos, K., Margiotta, A., Maris, O., Markou, C., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Masullo, R., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Miraglia, A., Mollo, C., Mongelli, M., Morganti, M., Mos, S., Moudden, Y., Musico, P., Musumeci, M., Nicolaou, C., Nicolau, C. A., Orlando, A., Orzelli, A., Papageorgiou, K., Papaikonomou, A., Papaleo, R., Pavalas, G. E., Peek, H., Pellegrino, C., Pellegriti, M. G., Perrina, C., Petridou, C., Piattelli, P., Pikounis, K., Popa, V., Pradier, Th., Priede, M., Puhlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Racca, C., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Rapidis, P. A., Razis, P., Real, D., Resvanis, L., Reubelt, J., Riccobene, G., Rovelli, A., Royon, J., Saldana, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Sapienza, P., Savvidis, I., Schmelling, J., Schnabel, J., Sedita, M., Seitz, T., Sgura, I., Simeone, F., Siotis, I., Sipala, V., Solazzo, M., Spitaleri, A., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, G., Steijger, J., Stolarczyk, T., Stransky, D., Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Tezier, D., Theraube, S., Thompson, L. F., Timmer, P., Trapierakis, H. I., Trasatti, L., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tsirigotis, A., Tzamarias, S., Tzamariudaki, E., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Vermeulen, J., Vernin, P., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Werneke, P., Wiggers, L., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., van Wooning, R. H. L., Yatkin, K., Zachariadou, K., Zonca, E., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zwart, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The first prototype of a photo-detection unit of the future KM3NeT neutrino telescope has been deployed in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This digital optical module has a novel design with a very large photocathode area segmented by the use of 31 three inch photomultiplier tubes. It has been integrated in the ANTARES detector for in-situ testing and validation. This paper reports on the first months of data taking and rate measurements. The analysis results highlight the capabilities of the new module design in terms of background suppression and signal recognition. The directionality of the optical module enables the recognition of multiple Cherenkov photons from the same $^{40}$K decay and the localization bioluminescent activity in the neighbourhood. The single unit can cleanly identify atmospheric muons and provide sensitivity to the muon arrival directions.
Published: 2014
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46. Searches for Point-like and extended neutrino sources close to the Galactic Centre using the ANTARES neutrino Telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bogazzi, C., Bormuth, R., Bou-Cabo, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Cârloganu, C., Carr, J., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Core, L., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Curtil, C., De Rosa, G., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti, Q., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Escoffier, S., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gómez-González, J. P., Graf, K., Guillard, G., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herold, B., Herrero, A., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lambard, E., Lambard, G., Lattuada, D., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loehner, H., Loucatos, S., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Mueller, C., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Palioselitis, D., Păvălaş, G. E., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabe, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spies, A., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yatkin, K., Yepes, H., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: A search for cosmic neutrino sources using six years of data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope has been performed. Clusters of muon neutrinos over the expected atmospheric background have been looked for. No clear signal has been found. The most signal-like accumulation of events is located at equatorial coordinates RA=$-$46.8$^{\circ}$ and Dec=$-$64.9$^{\circ}$ and corresponds to a 2.2$\sigma$ background fluctuation. In addition, upper limits on the flux normalization of an E$^{-2}$ muon neutrino energy spectrum have been set for 50 pre-selected astrophysical objects. Finally, motivated by an accumulation of 7 events relatively close to the Galactic Centre in the recently reported neutrino sample of the IceCube telescope, a search for point sources in a broad region around this accumulation has been carried out. No indication of a neutrino signal has been found in the ANTARES data and upper limits on the flux normalization of an E$^{-2}$ energy spectrum of neutrinos from point sources in that region have been set. The 90% confidence level upper limits on the muon neutrino flux normalization vary between 3.5 and 5.1$\times$10$^{-8}$ GeV$\,$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, depending on the exact location of the source., Comment: Submitted to ApJL. 18 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2014
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47. Searches for clustering in the time integrated skymap of the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bogazzi, C., Bormuth, R., Bou-Cabo, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Cecchini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Core, L., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Curtil, C., De Rosa, G., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti, Q., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Elsässer, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Escoffier, S., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gómez-González, J. P., Graf, K., Guillard, G., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herold, B., Herrero, A., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lambard, E., Lambard, G., Lattuada, D., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loehner, H., Loucatos, S., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Mueller, C., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Palioselitis, D., Pavalas, G. E., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spies, A., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yatkin, K., Yepes, H., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: This paper reports a search for spatial clustering of the arrival directions of high energy muon neutrinos detected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. An improved two-point correlation method is used to study the autocorrelation of 3058 neutrino candidate events as well as cross-correlations with other classes of astrophysical objects: sources of high energy gamma rays, massive black holes and nearby galaxies. No significant deviations from the isotropic distribution of arrival directions expected from atmospheric backgrounds are observed., Comment: published version
Published: 2014
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48. A Search for Time Dependent Neutrino Emission from Microquasars with the ANTARES Telescope

Author: Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Astraatmadja, T., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bigongiari, C., Bogazzi, C., Bouhou, B., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Cârloganu, C., Carr, J., Cecchini, S., Charif, Z., Charvis, P., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Core, L., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., De Rosa, G., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti, Q., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Elsässer, D., Emanuele, U., Enzenhöfer, A., Ernenwein, J. -P., Escoffier, S., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gómez-González, J. P., Graf, K., Guillard, G., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herold, B., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Kappes, A., Katz, U., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lambard, E., Lambard, G., Larosa, G., Lattuada, D., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loehner, H., Loucatos, S., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Montaruli, T., Müller, C., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Palioselitis, D., Păvălaş, G. E., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Rivière, C., Robert, A., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spies, A., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, T., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vernin, P., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yatkin, K., Yepes, H., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Results are presented on a search for neutrino emission from a sample of six microquasars, based on the data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope between 2007 and 2010. By means of appropriate time cuts, the neutrino search has been restricted to the periods when the acceleration of relativistic jets was taking place at the microquasars under study. The time cuts have been chosen using the information from the X-ray telescopes RXTE/ASM and Swift/BAT, and, in one case, the gamma-ray telescope Fermi/LAT. Since none of the searches has produced a statistically significant signal, upper limits on the neutrino fluences are derived and compared to the predictions from theoretical models.
Published: 2014

49. A Search for Neutrino Emission from the Fermi Bubbles with the ANTARES Telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., Samarai, I. Al, André, M., Anton, G., Anvar, S., Ardid, M., Astraatmadja, T., Aubert, J-J., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bigongiari, C., Bogazzi, C., Bouhou, B., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Cârloganu, C., Carr, J., Cecchini, S., Charif, Z., Charvis, Ph., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Classen, F., Coniglione, R., Core, L., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Curtil, C., De Bonis, G., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti, Q., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Emanuele, U., Enzenhöfer, A., Ernenwein, J-P., Escoffier, S., Fehn, K., Fermani, P., Flaminio, V., Folger, F., Fritsch, U., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giacomelli, G., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gómez-González, J. P., Graf, K., Guillard, G., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herold, B., Hößl, J., Hugon, C., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Kappes, A., Katz, U., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lambard, E., Lambard, G., Larosa, G., Lattuada, D., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Presti, D. Lo, Loehner, H., Loucatos, S., Louis, F., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Michael, T., Montaruli, T., Morganti, M., Müller, C., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Palioselitis, D., Păvălaş, G. E., Perrina, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Rivière, C., Robert, A., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Shanidze, R., Sieger, C., Simeone, F., Spies, A., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Sánchez-Losa, A., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vecchi, M., Vernin, P., Visser, E., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yatkin, K., Yepes, H., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Analysis of the Fermi-LAT data has revealed two extended structures above and below the Galactic Centre emitting gamma rays with a hard spectrum, the so-called Fermi bubbles. Hadronic models attempting to explain the origin of the Fermi bubbles predict the emission of high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays with similar fluxes. The ANTARES detector, a neutrino telescope located in the Mediterranean Sea, has a good visibility to the Fermi bubble regions. Using data collected from 2008 to 2011 no statistically significant excess of events is observed and therefore upper limits on the neutrino flux in TeV range from the Fermi bubbles are derived for various assumed energy cutoffs of the source., Comment: Accepted for publication to EPJ C
Published: 2013
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50. Measurement of the atmospheric $\nu_\mu$ energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 200 TeV with the ANTARES telescope

Author: The ANTARES Collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., Samarai, I. Al, André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Anvar, S., Ardid, M., Astraatmadja, T., Aubert, J-J., Baret, B., Barrios-Martí, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bigongiari, C., Bogazzi, C., Bouhou, B., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carloganu, C., Carr, J., Cecchini, S., Charif, Z., Charvis, Ph., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Classen, F., Core, L., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Curtil, C., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Decowski, M. P., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti, Q., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Emanuele, U., Enzenhöfer, A., Ernenwein, J-P., Escoffier, S., Fehn, K., Fermani, P., Flaminio, V., Folger, F., Fritsch, U., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geisselsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giacomelli, G., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gómez-González, J. P., Graf, K., Guillard, G., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herold, B., Hössl, J., James, C. W., de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Kappes, A., Katz, U., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lambard, E., Lambard, G., Larosa, G., Lattuada, D., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Presti, D. Lo, Loehner, H., Loucatos, S., Louis, F., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Michael, T., Montaruli, T., Morganti, M., Motz, H., Mueller, C., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Palioselitis, D., Pavalas, G. E., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Richter, R., Rivière, C., Robert, A., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Shanidze, R., Sieger, C., Simeone, F., Spies, A., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Sánchez-Losa, A., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Vernin, P., Visser, E., Wagner, S., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yatkin, K., Yepes, H., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Atmospheric neutrinos are produced during cascades initiated by the interaction of primary cosmic rays with air nuclei. In this paper, a measurement of the atmospheric \nu_\mu + \bar{\nu}_\mu energy spectrum in the energy range 0.1 - 200 TeV is presented, using data collected by the ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope from 2008 to 2011. Overall, the measured flux is ~25% higher than predicted by the conventional neutrino flux, and compatible with the measurements reported in ice. The flux is compatible with a single power-law dependence with spectral index \gamma_{meas}=3.58\pm 0.12. With the present statistics the contribution of prompt neutrinos cannot be established., Comment: preprint submitted to EPJ C
Published: 2013
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