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Author ANTARES Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Gomez-Gonzalez, J.P.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Lambard, G.; Mangano, S.; Sanchez-Losa, A.; Tönnis, C.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J.
Title Time calibration with atmospheric muon tracks in the ANTARES neutrino telescope Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal Astropart Phys.
Volume 78 Issue Pages 43-51
Keywords Time calibration; Neutrino Telescopes; ANTARES; Atmospheric muon tracks
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 similar to 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.
Address [Adrian-Martinez, S.; Ardid, M.; Bou-Cabo, M.; Felis, I.; Herrero, A.; Martinez-Mora, J. A.; Saldana, M.] Univ Politecn Valencia, Inst Invest Gestio Integrada Zones Costaneres IGI, C Paranimf 1, Gandia 46730, Spain, Email: javier.barrios@ific.uv.es;
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Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000374612500004 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2641
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Author KM3NeT Collaboration (Aiello, S. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Calvo, D.; Coleiro, A.; Colomer, M.; Gozzini, S.R.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Illuminati, G.; Khan Chowdhury, N.R.; Lotze, M.; Real, D.; Thakore, T.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J.
Title Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino telescope to point-like neutrino sources Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal Astropart Phys.
Volume 111 Issue Pages 100-110
Keywords Astrophysical neutrino sources; Cherenkov underwater neutrino telescope; KM3NeT
Abstract KM3NeT will be a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ARCA detector, to be installed at the Capo Passero site (Italy), is optimised for the detection of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic origin. Thanks to its geographical location on the Northern hemisphere, KM3NeT/ARCA can observe upgoing neutrinos from most of the Galactic Plane, including the Galactic Centre. Given its effective area and excellent pointing resolution, KM3NeT/ARCA will measure or significantly constrain the neutrino flux from potential astrophysical neutrino sources. At the same time, it will test flux predictions based on gamma-ray measurements and the assumption that the gamma-ray flux is of hadronic origin. Assuming this scenario, discovery potentials and sensitivities for a selected list of Galactic sources and to generic point sources with an E(-2 )spectrum are presented. These spectra are assumed to be time independent. The results indicate that an observation with 3 sigma significance is possible in about six years of operation for the most intense sources, such as Supernovae Remnants RX J1713.7-3946 and Vela Jr. If no signal will be found during this time, the fraction of the gamma-ray flux coming from hadronic processes can be constrained to be below 50% for these two objects.
Address [Aiello, S.; Leonora, E.; Longhitano, F.; Randazzo, N.; Tatone, F.] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, I-95123 Catania, Italy, Email: sapienza@lns.infn.it;
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Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000470047300008 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4047
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Author ANTARES Collaboration (Aguilar, J.A. et al); Bigongiari, C.; Dornic, D.; Emanuele, U.; Gomez-Gonzalez, J.P.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Mangano, S.; Salesa, F.; Toscano, S.; Yepes, H.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J.
Title Search for a diffuse flux of high-energy nu(mu) with the ANTARES neutrino telescope Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B
Volume 696 Issue 1-2 Pages 16-22
Keywords Neutrino telescope; Diffuse muon neutrino flux; ANTARES
Abstract A search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos, using data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope is presented. A (0.83 x 2 pi) sr sky was monitored for a total of 334 days of equivalent live time. The searched signal corresponds to an excess of events, produced by astrophysical sources, over the expected atmospheric neutrino background. The observed number of events is found compatible with the background expectation. Assuming an E-2 flux spectrum, a 90% c.l. upper limit on the diffuse nu(mu) flux of E-2 Phi(90%) = 5.3 x 10(-8) GeV cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1) in the energy range 20 TeV-2.5 PeV is obtained. Other signal models with different energy spectra are also tested and some rejected.
Address [Bazzotti, M.; Biagi, S.; Carminati, G.; Cecchini, S.; Chiarusi, T.; Giacomelli, G.; Margiotta, A.; Spurio, M.] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy, Email: spurio@bo.infn.it
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Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor
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Notes ISI:000286708900004 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 561
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Author ANTARES Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al); Bigongiari, C.; Dornic, D.; Emanuele, U.; Gomez-Gonzalez, J.P.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Lambard, G.; Mangano, S.; Ruiz-Rivas, J.; Sanchez-Losa, A.; Yepes, H.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J.
Title Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations with the ANTARES neutrino telescope Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B
Volume 714 Issue 2-5 Pages 224-230
Keywords Neutrino oscillations; Neutrino telescope; ANTARES
Abstract The data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope from 2007 to 2010, a total live time of 863 days, are used to measure the oscillation parameters of atmospheric neutrinos. Muon tracks are reconstructed with energies as low as 20 GeV. Neutrino oscillations will cause a suppression of vertical upgoing muon neutrinos of such energies crossing the Earth. The parameters determining the oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos are extracted by fitting the event rate as a function of the ratio of the estimated neutrino energy and reconstructed flight path through the Earth. Measurement contours of the oscillation parameters in a two-flavour approximation are derived. Assuming maximal mixing, a mass difference of Delta m(32)(2) = (3.1 +/- 0.9) . 10(-3) eV(2) is obtained, in good agreement with the world average value.
Address [Al Samarai, I.; Aubert, J. -J.; Bertin, V.; Brunner, J.; Busto, J.; Carr, J.; Charif, Z.; Core, L.; Costantini, H.; Coyle, P.; Curtil, C.; Dornic, D.; Ernenwein, J. -P.; Escoffier, S.; Galata, S.; Hallewell, G.; Riviere, C.; Vallee, C.; Vecchi, M.] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France, Email: brunner@cppm.in2p3.fr
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Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000307680100008 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1187
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Author Das, C.R.; Mena, O.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Pascoli, S.
Title Determining the dark matter mass with DeepCore Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B
Volume 725 Issue 4-5 Pages 297-301
Keywords Dark matter; Neutrino telescopes
Abstract Cosmological and astrophysical observations provide increasing evidence of the existence of dark matter in our Universe. Dark matter particles with a mass above a few GeV can be captured by the Sun, accumulate in the core, annihilate, and produce high energy neutrinos either directly or by subsequent decays of Standard Model particles. We investigate the prospects for indirect dark matter detection in the IceCube/DeepCore neutrino telescope and its capabilities to determine the dark matter mass.
Address [Das, Chitta R.; Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio] Univ Ten Lisboa, Inst Super Tecn, CFTP, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal, Email: sergio.palomares.ruiz@ist.utl.pt
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Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000324223100015 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1589
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Author ANTARES Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Sanchez-Losa, A.; Tönnis, C.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J.
Title Constraints on the neutrino emission from the Galactic Ridge with the ANTARES telescope Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B
Volume 760 Issue Pages 143-148
Keywords Neutrino telescope; Diffuse muon neutrino flux; ANTARES
Abstract A highly significant excess of high-energy 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 Gamma are set. For Gamma = 2.4 the 90% confidence level flux upper limit at 100 TeV for one neutrino flavour corresponds to phi(1f)(0) (100TeV) = 2.0 . 10(-17) GeV-1 cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1). Under this assumption, at most two events of the IceCube cosmic candidates can originate from the Galactic Ridge. A simple power-law extrapolation of the Fermi-LAT flux to account for IceCube High Energy Starting Events is excluded at 90% confidence level.
Address [Adrian-Martinez, S.; Ardid, M.; Martinez-Mora, J. A.; Saldana, M.] Univ Politecn Valencia, Inst Invest Gestio Integrada Zones Costaneres IGI, Paranimf 1, Gandia 46730, Spain, Email: luigiantonio.fusco@bo.infn.it
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Notes WOS:000382890500022 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2815
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Author ANTARES Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Illuminati, G.; Sanchez-Losa, A.; Tönnis, C.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J.
Title Limits on dark matter annihilation in the sun using the ANTARES neutrino telescope Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B
Volume 759 Issue Pages 69-74
Keywords Dark matter; WIMP; Neutralino; Indirect detection; Neutrino telescope; Sun
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 50 GeV to 5 TeV for the annihilation channels WIMP + WIMP -> b (b) over bar, W+W- and tau(+)tau(-).
Address [Adrian-Martineza, S.; Ardid, M.; Felis, I.; Martinez-Mora, J. A.; Saldana, M.] Univ Politecn Valencia, Inst Invest Gestio Integrada Zones Costaneres IGI, C Paranimf 1, Gandia 46730, Spain, Email: ctoennis@ific.uv.es
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Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor
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Notes WOS:000380409200006 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2879
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Author ANTARES Collaboration (Albert, A. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Illuminati, G.; Lotze, M.; Tönnis, C.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J.
Title Results from the search for dark matter in the Milky Way with 9 years of data of the ANTARES neutrino telescope Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B
Volume 769 Issue Pages 249-254
Keywords Dark matter; WIMP; Indirect detection; Neutrino telescope; Galactic Centre; ANTARES
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, WIMP + WIMP -> b (b) over bar, W+W-, tau(+)tau(-), mu(+)mu(-) and v (v) over bar, with WIMP masses ranging from 50 2 GeV/C-2 to 100 Tev/C-2, were considered. No excess over the expected background was found, and limits on the thermally averaged annihilation cross-section were set.
Address [Albert, A.; Drouhin, D.; Racca, C.] Univ Haute Alsace, GRPHE, Inst Univ Technol Colmar, 34 Rue Grillenbreit,BP 50568, F-68008 Colmar, France, Email: ctoennis@ific.uv.es
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Notes WOS:000402342500040 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3160
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Author de Salas, P.F.; Forero, D.V.; Ternes, C.A.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J.W.F.
Title Status of neutrino oscillations 2018: 3 sigma hint for normal mass ordering and improved CP sensitivity Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B
Volume 782 Issue Pages 633-640
Keywords Neutrino mass and mixing; Neutrino oscillation; Solar and atmospheric neutrinos; Reactor and accelerator neutrinos; Neutrino telescopes
Abstract We present a new global fit of neutrino oscillation parameters within the simplest three-neutrino picture, including new data which appeared since our previous analysis[1]. In this update we include new long-baseline neutrino data involving the antineutrino channel in T2K, as well as new data in the neutrino channel, data from NO nu A, as well as new reactor data, such as the Daya Bay 1230 days electron antineutrino disappearance spectrum data and the 1500 live days prompt spectrum from RENO, as well as new Double Chooz data. We also include atmospheric neutrino data from the IceCube DeepCore and ANTARES neutrino telescopes and from Super-Kamiokande. Finally, we also update our solar oscillation analysis by including the 2055-day day/night spectrum from the fourth phase of the Super-Kamiokande experiment. With the new data we find a preference for the atmospheric angle in the upper octant for both neutrino mass orderings, with maximal mixing allowed at Delta chi(2)= 1.6 (3.2) for normal (inverted) ordering. We also obtain a strong preference for values of the CP phase delta in the range [pi, 2 pi], excluding values close to pi/2at more than 4 sigma. More remarkably, our global analysis shows a hint in favorof the normal mass ordering over the inverted one at more than 3 sigma. We discuss in detail the status of the mass ordering, CP violation and octant sensitivities, analyzing the interplay among the different neutrino data samples.
Address [de Salas, P. F.; Ternes, C. A.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J. W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: pabferde@ific.uv.es;
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Notes WOS:000438486900094 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3665
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Author de Salas, P.F.; Pastor, S.; Ternes, C.A.; Thakore, T.; Tortola, M.
Title Constraining the invisible neutrino decay with KM3NeT-ORCA Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B
Volume 789 Issue Pages 472-479
Keywords Neutrino masses and mixing; Neutrino oscillations; Neutrino decay; Neutrino telescopes
Abstract Several theories of particle physics beyond the Standard Model consider that neutrinos can decay. In this work we assume that the standard mechanism of neutrino oscillations is altered by the decay of the heaviest neutrino mass state into a sterile neutrino and, depending on the model, a scalar or a Majoron. We study the sensitivity of the forthcoming KM3NeT-ORCA experiment to this scenario and find that it could improve the current bounds coming from oscillation experiments, where three-neutrino oscillations have been considered, by roughly two orders of magnitude. We also study how the presence of this neutrino decay can affect the determination of the atmospheric oscillation parameters sin(2) theta(23) and Delta m(31)(2), as well as the sensitivity to the neutrino mass ordering.
Address [de Salas, P. F.; Pastor, S.; Ternes, C. A.; Thakore, T.; Tortola, M.] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Parc Cientif UV,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: pabferde@ific.uv.es;
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Notes WOS:000457165400063 Approved no
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Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3902
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