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Updated limits on diffuse fluxes of cosmic neutrinos with 2008-2011 ANTARES data

The ANTARES neutrino telescope detects the Cherenkov radiation emitted along the path of charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. ANTARES is sensitive to all flavors even though it is optimized for muon neutrinos. Several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-29 Simone Biagi

Integration of Acoustic Detection Equipment into ANTARES

The ANTARES group at the University of Erlangen is working towards the integration of a set of acoustic sensors into the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope. With this setup, tests of acoustic particle detection methods and background studies shall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 R. Lahmann , G. Anton , K. Graf , J. Hoessl , A. Kappes , T. Karg , U. Katz , C. Naumann , K. Salomon

Cosmic Ray RF detection with the ASTRONEU array

Results will be shown from the ASTRONEU array developed and operated in the outskirts of Patras, Greece. An array of 9 scintillator detectors and 3 antennas were deployed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS) as a tool for calibrating an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-02 Ioannis Manthos , Ioannis Gkialas , George Bourlis , Antonios Leisos , Antonios Papaikonomou , Apostolos G. Tsirigotis , Spyros E. Tzamarias

The importance of muon information on primary mass discrimination of ultra-high energy cosmic rays

Several methods can be used to perform statistical inference of primary composition of cosmic rays measured with water Cerenkov detectors as those in use at the Pierre Auger Southern Observatory. In the present work we assess the impact of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Supanitsky , A. Tiba , G. Medina-Tanco , A. Etchegoyen , I. Allekotte , M. Gomez Berisso , V. de Souza , C. Medina , J. A. Ortiz , R. Shellard

Enhancing the cosmic-ray mass sensitivity of air-shower arrays by combining radio and muon detectors

The muonic and electromagnetic components of air showers are sensitive to the mass of the primary cosmic particle. The sizes of the components can be measured with particle detectors on ground, and the electromagnetic component in addition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-07 Ewa M. Holt , Frank G. Schröder , Andreas Haungs

Hellenic Open University Reconstruction & Simulation (HOURS) software package: User Guide & short reference of Event Generation, Cherenkov photon production and Optical Module simulation

In this document the simulation part of the Hellenic Open University Reconstruction & Simulation (HOURS) software package is described in detail. HOURS can be used for the generation, simulation, pattern recognition and reconstruction of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-06 A. G. Tsirigotis , G. Bourlis , A. Leisos , S. E. Tzamarias

Use of floating surface detector stations for the calibration of a deep-sea neutrino telescope

We propose the operation of floating Extensive Air Shower (EAS) detector stations in coincidence with the KM3NeT Mediterranean deep-sea neutrino telescope to determine the absolute position and orientation of the underwater detector and to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 A. G. Tsirigotis , G. Bourlis , N. A. B. Gizani , A. Leisos , S. E. Tzamarias

Reconstruction of inclined air showers detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory

We describe the method devised to reconstruct inclined cosmic-ray air showers with zenith angles greater than $60^\circ$ detected with the surface array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The measured signals at the ground level are fitted to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 The Pierre Auger Collaboration , A. Aab , P. Abreu , M. Aglietta , M. Ahlers , E. J. Ahn , I. Al Samarai , I. F. M. Albuquerque , I. Allekotte , J. Allen , P. Allison , A. Almela , J. Alvarez Castillo , J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. Alves Batista , M. Ambrosio , A. Aminaei , L. Anchordoqui , S. Andringa , C. Aramo , F. Arqueros , H. Asorey , P. Assis , J. Aublin , M. Ave , M. Avenier , G. Avila , A. M. Badescu , K. B. Barber , J. Bäuml , C. Baus , J. J. Beatty , K. H. Becker , J. A. Bellido , C. Berat , X. Bertou , P. L. Biermann , P. Billoir , F. Blanco , M. Blanco , C. Bleve , H. Blümer , M. Boháčová , D. Boncioli , C. Bonifazi , R. Bonino , N. Borodai , J. Brack , I. Brancus , P. Brogueira , W. C. Brown , P. Buchholz , A. Bueno , M. Buscemi , K. S. Caballero-Mora , B. Caccianiga , L. Caccianiga , M. Candusso , L. Caramete , R. Caruso , A. Castellina , G. Cataldi , L. Cazon , R. Cester , A. G. Chavez , S. H. Cheng , A. Chiavassa , J. A. Chinellato , J. Chudoba , M. Cilmo , R. W. Clay , G. Cocciolo , R. Colalillo , L. Collica , M. R. Coluccia , R. Conceição , F. Contreras , M. J. Cooper , S. Coutu , C. E. Covault , A. Criss , J. Cronin , A. Curutiu , R. Dallier , B. Daniel , S. Dasso , K. Daumiller , B. R. Dawson , R. M. de Almeida , M. De Domenico , S. J. de Jong , J. R. T. de Mello Neto , I. De Mitri , J. de Oliveira , V. de Souza , L. del Peral , O. Deligny , H. Dembinski , N. Dhital , C. Di Giulio , A. Di Matteo , J. C. Diaz , M. L. Díaz Castro , P. N. Diep , F. Diogo , C. Dobrigkeit , W. Docters , J. C. D'Olivo , P. N. Dong , A. Dorofeev , Q. Dorosti Hasankiadeh , M. T. Dova , J. Ebr , R. Engel , M. Erdmann , M. Erfani , C. O. Escobar , J. Espadanal , A. Etchegoyen , P. Facal San Luis , H. Falcke , K. Fang , G. Farrar , A. C. Fauth , N. Fazzini , A. P. Ferguson , M. Fernandes , B. Fick , J. M. Figueira , A. Filevich , A. Filipčič , B. D. Fox , O. Fratu , U. Fröhlich , B. Fuchs , T. Fuji , R. Gaior , B. García , S. T. Garcia Roca , D. Garcia-Gamez , D. Garcia-Pinto , G. Garilli , A. Gascon Bravo , F. Gate , H. Gemmeke , P. L. Ghia , U. Giaccari , M. Giammarchi , M. Giller , C. Glaser , H. Glass , F. Gomez Albarracin , M. Gómez Berisso , P. F. Gómez Vitale , P. Gonçalves , J. G. Gonzalez , B. Gookin , A. Gorgi , P. Gorham , P. Gouffon , S. Grebe , N. Griffith , A. F. Grillo , T. D. Grubb , Y. Guardincerri , F. Guarino , G. P. Guedes , P. Hansen , D. Harari , T. A. Harrison , J. L. Harton , A. Haungs , T. Hebbeker , D. Heck , P. Heimann , A. E. Herve , G. C. Hill , C. Hojvat , N. Hollon , E. Holt , P. Homola , J. R. Hörandel , P. Horvath , M. Hrabovský , D. Huber , T. Huege , A. Insolia , P. G. Isar , K. Islo , I. Jandt , S. Jansen , C. Jarne , M. Josebachuili , A. Kääpä , O. Kambeitz , K. H. Kampert , P. Kasper , I. Katkov , B. Kégl , B. Keilhauer , A. Keivani , E. Kemp , R. M. Kieckhafer , H. O. Klages , M. Kleifges , J. Kleinfeller , R. Krause , N. Krohm , O. Krömer , D. Kruppke-Hansen , D. Kuempel , N. Kunka , G. La Rosa , D. LaHurd , L. Latronico , R. Lauer , M. Lauscher , P. Lautridou , S. Le Coz , M. S. A. B. Leão , D. Lebrun , P. Lebrun , M. A. Leigui de Oliveira , A. Letessier-Selvon , I. Lhenry-Yvon , K. Link , R. López , A. Lopez Agëra , K. Louedec , J. Lozano Bahilo , L. Lu , A. Lucero , M. Ludwig , H. Lyberis , M. C. Maccarone , M. Malacari , S. Maldera , J. Maller , D. Mandat , P. Mantsch , A. G. Mariazzi , V. Marin , I. C. Mariş , G. Marsella , D. Martello , L. Martin , H. Martinez , O. Martínez Bravo , D. Martraire , J. J. Masías Meza , H. J. Mathes , S. Mathys , A. J. Matthews , J. Matthews , G. Matthiae , D. Maurel , D. Maurizio , E. Mayotte , P. O. Mazur , C. Medina , G. Medina-Tanco , M. Melissas , D. Melo , E. Menichetti , A. Menshikov , S. Messina , R. Meyhandan , S. Mićanović , M. I. Micheletti , L. Middendorf , I. A. Minaya , L. Miramonti , B. Mitrica , L. Molina-Bueno , S. Mollerach , M. Monasor , D. Monnier Ragaigne , F. Montanet , C. Morello , J. C. Moreno , M. Mostafá , C. A. Moura , M. A. Muller , G. Müller , M. Münchmeyer , R. Mussa , G. Navarra , S. Navas , P. Necesal , L. Nellen , A. Nelles , J. Neuser , D. Newton , M. Niechciol , L. Niemietz , T. Niggemann , D. Nitz , D. Nosek , V. Novotny , L. Nožka , L. Ochilo , A. Olinto , M. Oliveira , V. M. Olmos-Gilbaja , M. Ortiz , N. Pacheco , D. Pakk Selmi-Dei , M. Palatka , J. Pallotta , N. Palmieri , P. Papenbreer , G. Parente , A. Parra , S. Pastor , T. Paul , M. Pech , J. Pȩkala , R. Pelayo , I. M. Pepe , L. Perrone , R. Pesce , E. Petermann , C. Peters , S. Petrera , A. Petrolini , Y. Petrov , R. Piegaia , T. Pierog , P. Pieroni , M. Pimenta , V. Pirronello , M. Platino , M. Plum , A. Porcelli , C. Porowski , P. Privitera , M. Prouza , V. Purrello , E. J. Quel , S. Querchfeld , S. Quinn , J. Rautenberg , O. Ravel , D. Ravignani , B. Revenu , J. Ridky , S. Riggi , M. Risse , P. Ristori , V. Rizi , J. Roberts , W. Rodrigues de Carvalho , I. Rodriguez Cabo , G. Rodriguez Fernandez , J. Rodriguez Rojo , M. D. Rodríguez-Frías , G. Ros , J. Rosado , T. Rossler , M. Roth , E. Roulet , A. C. Rovero , C. Rühle , S. J. Saffi , A. Saftoiu , F. Salamida , H. Salazar , F. Salesa Greus , G. Salina , F. Sánchez , P. Sanchez-Lucas , C. E. Santo , E. Santos , E. M. Santos , F. Sarazin , B. Sarkar , R. Sarmento , R. Sato , N. Scharf , V. Scherini , H. Schieler , P. Schiffer , A. Schmidt , O. Scholten , H. Schoorlemmer , P. Schovánek , A. Schulz , J. Schulz , S. J. Sciutto , A. Segreto , M. Settimo , A. Shadkam , R. C. Shellard , I. Sidelnik , G. Sigl , O. Sima , A. Śmiał kowski , R. Šmída , G. R. Snow , P. Sommers , J. Sorokin , R. Squartini , Y. N. Srivastava , S. Stanič , J. Stapleton , J. Stasielak , M. Stephan , A. Stutz , F. Suarez , T. Suomijärvi , A. D. Supanitsky , M. S. Sutherland , J. Swain , Z. Szadkowski , M. Szuba , O. A. Taborda , A. Tapia , M. Tartare , N. T. Thao , V. M. Theodoro , J. Tiffenberg , C. Timmermans , C. J. Todero Peixoto , G. Toma , L. Tomankova , B. Tomé , A. Tonachini , G. Torralba Elipe , D. Torres Machado , P. Travnicek , E. Trovato , M. Tueros , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , M. Urban , J. F. Valdés Galicia , I. Valiño , L. Valore , G. van Aar , A. M. van den Berg , S. van Velzen , A. van Vliet , E. Varela , B. Vargas Cárdenas , G. Varner , J. R. Vázquez , R. A. Vázquez , D. Veberič , V. Verzi , J. Vicha , M. Videla , L. Villaseñor , B. Vlcek , S. Vorobiov , H. Wahlberg , O. Wainberg , D. Walz , A. A. Watson , M. Weber , K. Weidenhaupt , A. Weindl , F. Werner , B. J. Whelan , A. Widom , L. Wiencke , B. Wilczyńska , H. Wilczyński , M. Will , C. Williams , T. Winchen , D. Wittkowski , B. Wundheiler , S. Wykes , T. Yamamoto , T. Yapici , P. Younk , G. Yuan , A. Yushkov , B. Zamorano , E. Zas , D. Zavrtanik , M. Zavrtanik , I. Zaw , A. Zepeda , J. Zhou , Y. Zhu , M. Zimbres Silva , M. Ziolkowski

Event reconstruction for KM3NeT/ORCA using convolutional neural networks

The KM3NeT research infrastructure is currently under construction at two locations in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ORCA water-Cherenkov neutrino detector off the French coast will instrument several megatons of seawater with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Sebastiano Aiello , Arnauld Albert , Sergio Alves Garre , Zineb Aly , Fabrizio Ameli , Michel Andre , Giorgos Androulakis , Marco Anghinolfi , Mancia Anguita , Gisela Anton , Miquel Ardid , Julien Aublin , Christos Bagatelas , Giancarlo Barbarino , Bruny Baret , Suzan Basegmez du Pree , Meriem Bendahman , Edward Berbee , Vincent Bertin , Simone Biagi , Andrea Biagioni , Matthias Bissinger , Markus Boettcher , Jihad Boumaaza , Mohammed Bouta , Mieke Bouwhuis , Cristiano Bozza , Horea Branzas , Ronald Bruijn , Jürgen Brunner , Ernst-Jan Buis , Raffaele Buompane , Jose Busto , Barbara Caiffi , David Calvo , Antonio Capone , Víctor Carretero , Paolo Castaldi , Silvia Celli , Mohamed Chabab , Nhan Chau , Andrew Chen , Silvio Cherubini , Vitaliano Chiarella , Tommaso Chiarusi , Marco Circella , Rosanna Cocimano , Joao Coelho , Alexis Coleiro , Marta Colomer Molla , Rosa Coniglione , Paschal Coyle , Alexandre Creusot , Giacomo Cuttone , Antonio D'Onofrio , Richard Dallier , Maarten de Jong , Paul de Jong , Mauro De Palma , Gwenhaël de Wasseige , Els de Wolf , Irene Di Palma , Antonio Diaz , Dídac Diego-Tortosa , Carla Distefano , Alba Domi , Roberto Donà , Corinne Donzaud , Damien Dornic , Manuel Dörr , Doriane Drouhin , Thomas Eberl , Imad El Bojaddaini , Dominik Elsaesser , Alexander Enzenhöfer , Paolo Fermani , Giovanna Ferrara , Miroslav Filipovic , Francesco Filippini , Luigi Antonio Fusco , Omar Gabella , Tamas Gal , Alfonso Andres Garcia Soto , Fabio Garufi , Yoann Gatelet , Nicole Geißelbrecht , Lucio Gialanella , Emidio Giorgio , Sara Rebecca Gozzini , Rodrigo Gracia , Kay Graf , Dario Grasso , Giuseppe Grella , Carlo Guidi , Steffen Hallmann , Hassane Hamdaoui , Aart Heijboer , Amar Hekalo , Juan-Jose Hernandez-Rey , Jannik Hofestädt , Feifei Huang , Walid Idrissi Ibnsalih , Giulia Illuminati , Clancy James , Bouke Jisse Jung , Matthias Kadler , Piotr Kalaczyński , Oleg Kalekin , Uli Katz , Nafis Rezwan Khan Chowdhury , Giorgi Kistauri , Els Koffeman , Paul Kooijman , Antoine Kouchner , Michael Kreter , Vladimir Kulikovskiy , Robert Lahmann , Giuseppina Larosa , Remy Le Breton , Ornella Leonardi , Francesco Leone , Emanuele Leonora , Giuseppe Levi , Massimiliano Lincetto , Miles Lindsey Clark , Thomas Lipreau , Alessandro Lonardo , Fabio Longhitano , Daniel Lopez Coto , Lukas Maderer , Jerzy Mańczak , Karl Mannheim , Annarita Margiotta , Antonio Marinelli , Christos Markou , Lilian Martin , Juan Antonio Martínez-Mora , Agnese Martini , Fabio Marzaioli , Stefano Mastroianni , Safaa Mazzou , Karel Melis , Gennaro Miele , Pasquale Migliozzi , Emilio Migneco , Piotr Mijakowski , Luis Salvador Miranda Palacios , Carlos Maximiliano Mollo , Mauro Morganti , Michael Moser , Abdelilah Moussa , Rasa Muller , Mario Musumeci , Lodewijk Nauta , Sergio Navas , Carlo Alessandro Nicolau , Brían Ó Fearraigh , Mukharbek Organokov , Angelo Orlando , Gogita Papalashvili , Riccardo Papaleo , Cosimo Pastore , Alice Paun , Gabriela Emilia Pavalas , Carmelo Pellegrino , Mathieu Perrin-Terrin , Paolo Piattelli , Camiel Pieterse , Konstantinos Pikounis , Ofelia Pisanti , Chiara Poirè , Vlad Popa , Maarten Post , Thierry Pradier , Gerd Pühlhofer , Sara Pulvirenti , Omphile Rabyang , Fabrizio Raffaelli , Nunzio Randazzo , Antonio Rapicavoli , Soebur Razzaque , Diego Real , Stefan Reck , Giorgio Riccobene , Marc Richer , Stephane Rivoire , Alberto Rovelli , Francisco Salesa Greus , Dorothea Franziska Elisabeth Samtleben , Agustín Sánchez Losa , Matteo Sanguineti , Andrea Santangelo , Domenico Santonocito , Piera Sapienza , Jutta Schnabel , Jordan Seneca , Irene Sgura , Rezo Shanidze , Ankur Sharma , Francesco Simeone , Anna Sinopoulou , Bernardino Spisso , Maurizio Spurio , Dimitris Stavropoulos , Jos Steijger , Simona Maria Stellacci , Mauro Taiuti , Yahya Tayalati , Enrique Tenllado , Tarak Thakore , Steven Tingay , Ekaterini Tzamariudaki , Dimitrios Tzanetatos , Ad van den Berg , Frits van der Knaap , Daan van Eijk , Véronique Van Elewyck , Hans van Haren , Godefroy Vannoye , George Vasileiadis , Federico Versari , Salvatore Viola , Daniele Vivolo , Joern Wilms , Rafał Wojaczyński , Dmitry Zaborov , Sandra Zavatarelli , Angela Zegarelli , Daniele Zito , Juan-de-Dios Zornoza , Juan Zúñiga , Natalia Zywucka

Precise determination of muon and EM shower contents from shower universality property

We present two new aspects of Extensive Air Shower (EAS) development universality allowing to make accurate estimation of muon and electromagnetic (EM) shower contents in two independent ways. In the first case, to get muon (or EM) signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-27 A. Yushkov , M. Ambrosio , C. Aramo , D. D'Urso , F. Guarino , L. Valore

Restoration of azimuthal symmetry of muon densities in extended air showers

At ground level, the azimuthal distribution of muons in inclined Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is asymmetric, mainly due to geometric effects. Several EAS observables sensitive to the primary particle mass, are constructed after mapping the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Nicusor Arsene , Markus Roth , Octavian Sima

Expected Muon Energy Spectra and Zenithal Distributions Deep Underwater

Energy spectra and zenith angle distributions of atmospheric muons are calculated for the depths of operation of large underwater neutrino telescopes. The estimation of the prompt muon contribution is performed with three approaches to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Misaki , V. A. Naumov , T. S. Sinegovskaya , S. I. Sinegovsky , N. Takahashi

Reconstruction of Muon Bundle in the JUNO Central Detector

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment. One of the main goals is to determine the neutrino mass ordering by precisely measuring the energy spectrum of reactor antineutrinos. For reactor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-28 Cheng-Feng Yang , Yong-Bo Huang , Ji-Lei Xu , Di-Ru Wu , Hao-Qi Lu , Yong-Peng Zhang , Wu-Ming Luo , Miao He , Guo-Ming Chen , Si-Yuan Zhang

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

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 ANTARES Collaboration , A. Albert , M. André , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , J. Aublin , T. Avgitas , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Martí , S. Basa , B. Belhorma , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , R. Bormuth , S. Bourret , M. C. Bouwhuis , H. Brânzaş , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , S. Celli , R. Cherkaoui El Moursli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. F. Díaz , A. Deschamps , G. De Bonis , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , A. Domi , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , T. Eberl , I. El Bojaddaini , N. El Khayati , D. Elsässer , A. Enzenhöfer , A. Ettahiri , F. Fassi , I. Felis , L. A. Fusco , P. Gay , V. Giordano , H. Glotin , T. Grégoire , R. Gracia Ruiz , K. Graf , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hößl , J. Hofestädt , G. Illuminati , C. W. James , M. de Jong , M. Jongen , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , D. Kießling , A. Kouchner , M. Kreter , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , C. Lachaud , R. Lahmann , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , M. Lotze , S. Loucatos , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. A. Martínez-Mora , R. Mele , K. Melis , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , S. Navas , E. Nezri , M. Organokov , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier , L. Quinn , C. Racca , G. Riccobene , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Saldaña , I. Salvadori , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , F. Schüssler , C. Sieger , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , A. Trovato , D. Turpin , C. Tönnis , B. Vallage , V. Van Elewyck , F. Versari , D. Vivolo , A. Vizzoca , J. Wilms , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

Astrophysical Searches For Exotic Phenomena In Ultrahigh Energy Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering

We investigate the potential of near-future neutrino telescopes like NESTOR for searches for exotic processes in ultrahigh energy neutrino-quark scattering. (NESTOR is the acronym for NEutrinos, from Supernovae and TeV sources, Ocean Range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Morris , A. Ringwald

The Relevance of Muon Deflections for Neutrino Telescopes

Large-scale neutrino telescopes have the primary objective to detect and characterize neutrino sources in the universe. These experiments rely on the detection of charged leptons produced in the interaction of neutrinos with nuclei. Angular…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-28 Pascal Gutjahr , Jean-Marco Alameddine , Alexander Sandrock , Jan Soedingrekso , Mirco Hünnefeld , Wolfgang Rhode

Measurements and tests of hadronic interactions at ultra-high energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Extensive air showers are complex objects, resulting of billions of particle reactions initiated by single cosmic ray at ultra-high-energy. Their characteristics are sensitive both to the mass of the primary cosmic ray and to the details of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Lorenzo Cazon

Trinity: An Air-Shower Imaging System for the Detection of Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos

Efforts to detect ultrahigh energy neutrinos are driven by several objectives: What is the origin of astrophysical neutrinos detected with IceCube? What are the sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays? Do the ANITA detected events point to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 A. Nepomuk Otte , Anthony M. Brown , Abraham D. Falcone , Mosè Mariotti , Ignacio Taboada

Gamma ray astronomy with Antares

It has been suggested that underwater neutrino telescopes could detect muons from gamma ray showers. Antares' ability to detect high energy muons produced by TeV photons is discussed in the light of a full Monte Carlo study. It is shown…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Goulven Guillard

ANTARES Status Report

The ANTARES Collaboration is building a neutrino telescope 2400 m below the Mediterranean sea close to the Southern French coast. The site is already linked to the shore station by a 40 km-long electro-optical cable (EOC) which transmits…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Teresa Montaruli