1. Measurement of the atmospheric νe and νμ energy spectra with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
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A. Marinelli, R. Cherkaoui El Moursli, Alba Domi, Julien Aublin, G. Illuminati, Jose Busto, M. Perrin-Terrin, M.C. Bouwhuis, T. Thakore, J. Zúñiga, D. Lopez-Coto, M. Ardid, V. Popa, I. Kreykenbohm, Steffen Hallmann, Vladimir Kulikovskiy, M. Circella, J. Manczak, Matthias Kadler, F. Salesa Greus, Paolo Sapienza, Alessia Capone, J. Brunner, A. Creusot, C. Pellegrino, V. Carretero, Tommaso Chiarusi, S. Sánchez Navas, A. Enzenhöfer, H. Brânzaş, M. Bouta, Arnauld Albert, N.R. Khan-Chowdhury, T. N. Chau, Maurizio Spurio, Emanuele Leonora, J-J. Aubert, Dominique Lefèvre, N. Randazzo, F. Huang, B. Baret, C. Guidi, F. Versari, J. Carr, A.J. Heijboer, Mohamed Chabab, Damien Dornic, Annarita Margiotta, C. Pieterse, O. Kalekin, Giuseppe Levi, J.A. Martínez-Mora, Alexis Coleiro, F. Filippini, A. Sánchez-Losa, Steven Tingay, C. W. James, J.J. Hernández-Rey, Yahya Tayalati, Michel André, C. Donzaud, R. Coniglione, F. Schüssler, Kay Graf, Daniele Vivolo, Karel Melis, J. Hößl, S. Basa, Michael Moser, P. Coyle, Massimiliano Lincetto, D. Drouhin, Gisela Anton, M. Bendahman, B. Vallage, M. Colomer-Molla, Hervé Glotin, V. Van Elewyck, J.D. Zornoza, M. de Jong, J. Hofestädt, Jihad Boumaaza, S. Alves, Jutta Schnabel, Joern Wilms, S. Reck, M. Marcelin, M. Jongen, C. Distefano, D. F. E. Samtleben, Paolo Fermani, L. Caramete, Giovanna Ferrara, L. Fusco, M. Taiuti, Yann Hello, H. van Haren, B. Jisse-Jung, Th. Stolarczyk, S. Loucatos, S.F. Biagi, Thierry Pradier, B. Belhorma, R. Gozzini, U. Katz, M. Anghinolfi, N. El Khayati, I. Di Palma, Antonio F. Díaz, Antoine Kouchner, A. Zegarelli, A. Nuñez-Castiñeyra, P. de Jong, Abdelilah Moussa, L. Maderer, Anne Deschamps, L. Nauta, Matteo Sanguineti, G. Riccobene, V. Bertin, E. Nezri, R. Bruijn, R. Muller, J. Schumann, G. de Wasseige, Silvia Celli, Thomas Eberl, M. Bissinger, C. Poirè, P. Piattelli, Robert Lahmann, R. Le Breton, S. Viola, M. Organokov, R. García, G.E. Păvălaş, B. O'Fearraigh, Y. Gatelet, P. Migliozzi, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes (LIS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie (MIO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), ANTARES, ANR-18-IDEX-0001,Université de Paris,Université de Paris(2018), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Centre Tecnològic de Vilanova i la Geltrú, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. LAB - Laboratori d'Aplicacions Bioacústiques, KM3NeT (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), ATLAS (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), IHEF (IoP, FNWI), Albert A., Alves S., Andre M., Anghinolfi M., Anton G., Ardid M., Aubert J.-J., Aublin J., Baret B., Basa S., Belhorma B., Bendahman M., Bertin V., Biagi S., Bissinger M., Boumaaza J., Bouta M., Bouwhuis M.C., Branzas H., Bruijn R., Brunner J., Busto J., Capone A., Caramete L., Carr J., Carretero V., Celli S., Chabab M., Chau T.N., Cherkaoui El Moursli R., Chiarusi T., Circella M., Coleiro A., Colomer-Molla M., Coniglione R., Coyle P., Creusot A., Diaz A.F., de Wasseige G., Deschamps A., Distefano C., Di Palma I., Domi A., Donzaud C., Dornic D., Drouhin D., Eberl T., El Khayati N., Enzenhofer A., Fermani P., Ferrara G., Filippini F., Fusco L., Garcia R., Gatelet Y., Gay P., Glotin H., Gozzini R., Graf K., Guidi C., Hallmann S., van Haren H., Heijboer A.J., Hello Y., Hernandez-Rey J.J., Hossl J., Hofestadt J., Huang F., Illuminati G., James C.W., Jisse-Jung B., de Jong M., de Jong P., Jongen M., Kadler M., Kalekin O., Katz U., Khan-Chowdhury N.R., Kouchner A., Kreykenbohm I., Kulikovskiy V., Lahmann R., Le Breton R., Lefevre D., Leonora E., Levi G., Lincetto M., Lopez-Coto D., Loucatos S., Maderer L., Manczak J., Marcelin M., Margiotta A., Marinelli A., Martinez-Mora J.A., Melis K., Migliozzi P., Moser M., Moussa A., Muller R., Nauta L., Navas S., Nezri E., Nunez-Castineyra A., O'Fearraigh B., Organokov M., Pavalas G.E., Pellegrino C., Perrin-Terrin M., Piattelli P., Pieterse C., Poire C., Popa V., Pradier T., Randazzo N., Reck S., Riccobene G., Salesa Greus F., Samtleben D.F.E., Sanchez-Losa A., Sanguineti M., Sapienza P., Schnabel J., Schumann J., Schussler F., Spurio M., Stolarczyk T., Taiuti M., Tayalati Y., Thakore T., Tingay S.J., Vallage B., Van Elewyck V., Versari F., Viola S., Vivolo D., Wilms J., Zegarelli A., Zornoza J.D., and Zuniga J.
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The authors acknowledge the financial support of the funding agencies: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives(CEA), Commission Europeenne (FEDER fund and Marie Curie Program), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Labex UnivEarthS(ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-18-IDEX-0001), Region Ile-de-France (DIM-ACAV), Region Alsace (contrat CPER), Region Provence-AlpesCote d'Azur, Departement du Var and Ville de La Seyne-sur-Mer, France; Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany; Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare(INFN), Italy; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek(NWO), the Netherlands; Council of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and leading scientific schools supporting grants, Russia; Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI), Romania; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MCI) and Agencia Estatal de Investigacion: Programa Estatal de Generacion de Conocimiento (refs. PGC2018096663-B-C41, -A-C42, -B-C43, -B-C44) (MCI/FEDER), Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence and MultiDark Consolider, Junta de Andalucia (ref. SOMM17/6104/UGR and A-FQM-053-UGR18), Generalitat Valenciana: Grisolia (ref. GRISOLIA/2018/119) and GenT (ref. CIDEGENT/2018/034) programs, Spain; Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Professional Training, Morocco. We also acknowledge the technical support of Ifremer, AIM and Foselev Marine for the sea operation and the CC-IN2P3 for the computing facilities. The authors acknowledge the financial support of the funding agencies: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives(CEA), Commission Europeenne (FEDER fund and Marie Curie Program), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Labex UnivEarthS(ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-18-IDEX-0001), Region Ile-de-France (DIM-ACAV), Region Alsace (contrat CPER), Region Provence-AlpesCote d'Azur, Departement du Var and Ville de La Seyne-sur-Mer, France; Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany; Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare(INFN), Italy; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek(NWO), the Netherlands; Council of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and leading scientific schools supporting grants, Russia; Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI), Romania; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MCI) and Agencia Estatal de Investigacion: Programa Estatal de Generacion de Conocimiento (refs. PGC2018096663-B-C41, -A-C42, -B-C43, -B-C44) (MCI/FEDER), Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence and MultiDark Consolider, Junta de Andalucia (ref. SOMM17/6104/UGR and A-FQM-053-UGR18), Generalitat Valenciana: Grisolia (ref. GRISOLIA/2018/119) and GenT (ref. CIDEGENT/2018/034) programs, Spain; Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Professional Training, Morocco. We also acknowledge the technical support of Ifremer, AIM and Foselev Marine for the sea operation and the CC-IN2P3 for the computing facilities., This letter presents a combined measurement of the energy spectra of atmospheric nu(e) and nu(mu) in the energy range between similar to 100 GeV and similar to 50 TeV with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The analysis uses 3012 days of detector livetime in the period 2007-2017, and selects 1016 neutrinos interacting in (or close to) the instrumented volume of the detector, yielding shower-like events (mainly from nu(e) + (nu) over bar (e) charged current plus all neutrino neutral current interactions) and starting track events (mainly from nu(mu) + (nu) over bar (mu) charged current interactions). The contamination by atmospheric muons in the final sample is suppressed at the level of a few per mill by different steps in the selection analysis, including a Boosted Decision Tree classifier. The distribution of reconstructed events is unfolded in terms of electron and muon neutrino fluxes. The derived energy spectra are compared with previous measurements that, above 100 GeV, are limited to experiments in polar ice and, for nu(mu), to Super-Kamiokande., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), French Atomic Energy Commission, Commission Europeenne (FEDER fund), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Labex UnivEarthS ANR-10-LABX-0023 ANR-18-IDEX-0001, Region Ile-de-France, Region Grand-Est, Region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF), Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare(INFN), Italy, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands Government, Council of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and leading scientific schools supporting grants, Russia, Consiliul National al Cercetarii Stiintifice (CNCS), Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii (UEFISCDI), Spanish Government PGC2018096663-B-C41 PGC2018096663-A-C42 PGC2018096663-B-C43 PGC2018096663-B-C44, Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence and MultiDark Consolider, Junta de Andalucia SOMM17/6104/UGR A-FQM-053-UGR18, Generalitat Valenciana: Grisolia program, Spain GRISOLIA/2018/119, Generalitat Valenciana: GenT program, Spain CIDEGENT/2018/034, Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Professional Training, Morocco, Agencia Estatal de Investigacion PGC2018096663-B-C41 PGC2018096663-A-C42 PGC2018096663-B-C43 PGC2018096663-B-C44, Commission Europeenne (Marie Curie Program)
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- 2021