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I will discuss the motivations for Neutrino Astronomy and its prospects given the current experimental scenario, which is the main focus of this paper. I will also go through the first results of the IceCube detector deep in the ice and of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Teresa Montaruli

The ANTARES collaboration is building a deep sea neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. This detector will cover a sensitive area of typically 0.1 km-squared and will be equipped with about 1000 optical modules. Each of these optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The ANTARES Collaboration

The ANTARES telescope is the largest underwater neutrino telescope existing at present. It is based on the detection of Cherenkov light produced in sea water by neutrino-induced muons. The detector, consisting of a tri-dimensional array of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Salvatore Mangano

Doing astronomy with photons of energies in excess of a GeV has turned out to be extremely challenging. Efforts are underway to develop instruments that may push astronomy to wavelengths smaller than $10^{-14}$~cm by mapping the sky in high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Halzen

KM3NeT-ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino detector designed for studying the oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos, with the primary objective of measuring the neutrino mass ordering. Atmospheric neutrinos crossing the Earth undergo matter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Simon Bourret , João A. B. Coelho , Véronique Van Elewyck

The ANTARES experiment is currently the largest underwater neutrino telescope. It is taking high quality data since 2007 and aims to detect high energy neutrinos that are expected from the acceleration of cosmic rays from astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 S. Mangano

IceCube is a 1 km^3 neutrino telescope currently under construction at the South Pole. The detector will consist of 5160 optical sensors deployed at depths between 1450 m and 2450 m in clear Antarctic ice distributed over 86 strings. An air…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Karle

The KM3NeT collaboration is constructing two large neutrino detectors in the Mediterranean Sea: ARCA, located near Sicily and aiming at neutrino astronomy, and ORCA, located near Toulon and designed for neutrino oscillation studies. The two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Dídac D. Tortosa , Chiara Poirè

The cubic kilometer IceCube neutrino telescope now operating at the South Pole in a near complete configuration observes the neutrino sky with an unprecedented sensitivity to galactic and extra-galactic cosmic ray accelerators. Within the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 M. Ribordy

The IceCube collaboration is building a cubic kilometer scale neutrino telescope at a depth of 2 km at the geographic South Pole, utilizing the clear Antarctic ice as a Cherenkov medium to detect cosmic neutrinos. The IceCube observatory is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Timo Karg

Antares is currently the largest neutrino telescope operating in the Northern Hemisphere, aiming at the detection of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. Such observations would provide important clues about the processes at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Thierry Pradier

KM3NeT/ORCA is a water Cherenkov neutrino detector under construction and anchored at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The detector is designed to study oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos and determine the neutrino mass ordering.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-07 KM3NeT Collaboration , S. Aiello , A. Albert , A. R. Alhebsi , M. Alshamsi , S. Alves Garre , A. Ambrosone , F. Ameli , M. Andre , L. Aphecetche , M. Ardid , S. Ardid , H. Atmani , J. Aublin , F. Badaracco , L. Bailly-Salins , Z. Bardačová , B. Baret , A. Bariego-Quintana , Y. Becherini , M. Bendahman , F. Benfenati , M. Benhassi , M. Bennani , D. M. Benoit , E. Berbee , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , M. Boettcher , D. Bonanno , A. B. Bouasla , J. Boumaaza , M. Bouta , M. Bouwhuis , C. Bozza , R. M. Bozza , H. Brânzaş , F. Bretaudeau , M. Breuhaus , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , R. Bruno , E. Buis , R. Buompane , J. Busto , B. Caiffi , D. Calvo , A. Capone , F. Carenini , V. Carretero , T. Cartraud , P. Castaldi , V. Cecchini , S. Celli , L. Cerisy , M. Chabab , A. Chen , S. Cherubini , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , R. Cocimano , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , A. Condorelli , R. Coniglione , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , G. Cuttone , R. Dallier , A. De Benedittis , B. De Martino , G. De Wasseige , V. Decoene , I. Del Rosso , L. S. Di Mauro , I. Di Palma , A. F. Díaz , D. Diego-Tortosa , C. Distefano , A. Domi , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , E. Drakopoulou , D. Drouhin , J. -G. Ducoin , R. Dvornický , T. Eberl , E. Eckerová , A. Eddymaoui , T. van Eeden , M. Eff , D. van Eijk , I. El Bojaddaini , S. El Hedri , V. Ellajosyula , A. Enzenhöfer , G. Ferrara , M. D. Filipović , F. Filippini , D. Franciotti , L. A. Fusco , S. Gagliardini , T. Gal , J. García Méndez , A. Garcia Soto , C. Gatius Oliver , N. Geißelbrecht , E. Genton , H. Ghaddari , L. Gialanella , B. K. Gibson , E. Giorgio , I. Goos , P. Goswami , S. R. Gozzini , R. Gracia , C. Guidi , B. Guillon , M. Gutiérrez , C. Haack , H. van Haren , A. Heijboer , L. Hennig , J. J. Hernández-Rey , W. Idrissi Ibnsalih , G. Illuminati , D. Joly , M. de Jong , P. de Jong , B. J. Jung , G. Kistauri , C. Kopper , A. Kouchner , Y. Y. Kovalev , V. Kueviakoe , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Kvatadze , M. Labalme , R. Lahmann , M. Lamoureux , G. Larosa , C. Lastoria , A. Lazo , S. Le Stum , G. Lehaut , V. Lemaítre , E. Leonora , N. Lessing , G. Levi , M. Lindsey Clark , F. Longhitano , F. Magnani , J. Majumdar , L. Malerba , F. Mamedov , J. Mańczak , A. Manfreda , M. Marconi , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , C. Markou , L. Martin , M. Mastrodicasa , S. Mastroianni , J. Mauro , G. Miele , P. Migliozzi , E. Migneco , M. L. Mitsou , C. M. Mollo , L. Morales-Gallegos , A. Moussa , I. Mozun Mateo , R. Muller , M. R. Musone , M. Musumeci , S. Navas , A. Nayerhoda , C. A. Nicolau , B. Nkosi , B. Ó Fearraigh , V. Oliviero , A. Orlando , E. Oukacha , D. Paesani , J. Palacios González , G. Papalashvili , V. Parisi , E. J. Pastor Gomez , A. M. Păun , G. E. Păvălaş , S. Peña Martínez , M. Perrin-Terrin , V. Pestel , R. Pestes , P. Piattelli , A. Plavin , C. Poirè , V. Popa , T. Pradier , J. Prado , S. Pulvirenti , C. A. Quiroz-Rangel , N. Randazzo , S. Razzaque , I. C. Rea , D. Real , G. Riccobene , J. Robinson , A. Romanov , E. Ros , A. Šaina , F. Salesa Greus , D. F. E. Samtleben , A. Sánchez Losa , S. Sanfilippo , M. Sanguineti , D. Santonocito , P. Sapienza , J. Schnabel , J. Schumann , H. M. Schutte , J. Seneca , I. Sgura , R. Shanidze , A. Sharma , Y. Shitov , F. Šimkovic , A. Simonelli , A. Sinopoulou , B. Spisso , M. Spurio , D. Stavropoulos , I. Štekl , S. M. Stellacci , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , H. Thiersen , S. Thoudam , I. Tosta e Melo , B. Trocmé , V. Tsourapis , A. Tudorache , E. Tzamariudaki , A. Ukleja , A. Vacheret , V. Valsecchi , V. Van Elewyck , G. Vannoye , G. Vasileiadis , F. Vazquez de Sola , A. Veutro , S. Viola , D. Vivolo , A. van Vliet , E. de Wolf , I. Yvon , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zegarelli , D. Zito , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga , N. Zywucka

The Protvino accelerator facility located in the Moscow region, Russia, is in a good position to offer a rich experimental research program in the field of neutrino physics. Of particular interest is the possibility to direct a neutrino…

This talk presents conclusions for KM3NeT which may be drawn from latest IceCube results and from optimization studies of the IceCube configuration. It discusses possible coordinated efforts between IceCube and KM3NeT (or, for the time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-03 Christian Spiering

Weakly interacting neutrinos are ideal astronomical messengers because they travel through space without deflection by magnetic fields and, essentially, without absorption. Their weak interaction also makes them notoriously difficult to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-01 Markus Ahlers , Francis Halzen

KM3NeT's detection of a muon track produced by a $\sim 220 \, {\rm PeV}$ neutrino provides an opportunity to probe physics at center-of-momentum energies greater than those probed by the Large Hadron Collider or other existing particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Toni Bertólez-Martínez , Dan Hooper

At about 40 km off the coast of Toulon (France), anchored at 2475 m deep in the Mediterranean Sea, there is ANTARES: the first undersea neutrino telescope and the only one currently operating. The detector consists of 885 photomultiplier…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 Chiara Perrina

The KM3NeT collaboration recently reported the observation of KM3-230213A, a neutrino event with an energy exceeding 100 PeV, more than an order of magnitude higher than the most energetic neutrino in IceCube's catalog. Given its longer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 Vedran Brdar , Dibya S. Chattopadhyay

The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope was completed in May 2008 and is the first operational Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. The main purpose of the detector is to perform neutrino astronomy and the apparatus also offers facilities…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 ANTARES Collaboration

Kilometer$^3$-scale neutrino detectors such as IceCube, ANTARES, and the proposed Km3Net neutrino observatory in the Mediterranean have measured, and will continue to characterize, the atmospheric neutrino spectrum above 1 TeV. Such precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-11 C. A. Argüelles , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , T. Katori , A. Kheirandish