Recent results from the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Journal Article · Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2014 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902763· OSTI ID:22390619

Eberl, Thomas ^[1]

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1. Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen (Germany)

The ANTARES detector, located in the deep sea 40 km off the French coast, is the largest neutrino telescope in the northern hemisphere. It consists of an array of 885 photomultipliers detecting the Cherenkov light induced by charged leptons created in neutrino interactions in and around the detector. The main goal of ANTARES is to search for astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range. This comprises searches for a diffuse cosmic neutrino flux and for fluxes from possible galactic and extragalactic sources of neutrinos. The search program also includes multi-messenger analyses based on time and/or space coincidences with other cosmic probes. The ANTARES detector is sensitive to a wide range of other phenomena, from atmospheric neutrino oscillations to dark matter annihilation or potential exotics such as nuclearites and magnetic monopoles.

• OSTI ID: 22390619
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1630, Issue 1; Conference: VLVvT 13: 6. International Workshop on Very Large Volumte Neutrino Telescopes, Stockholm (Sweden), 5-7 Aug 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ANNIHILATION
ASTROPHYSICS
CHERENKOV COUNTERS
COSMIC NEUTRINOS
FRANCE
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
NEUTRINO OSCILLATION
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
PEV RANGE
PHOTOMULTIPLIERS
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
TELESCOPE COUNTERS
TEV RANGE
VISIBLE RADIATION