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Combined Opto-Acoustical Sensor Modules for KM3NeT

KM3NeT is a future multi-cubic-kilometre water Cherenkov neutrino telescope currently entering a first construction phase. It will be located in the Mediterranean Sea and comprise about 600 vertical structures called detection units. Each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-20 Alexander Enzenhöfer , KM3NeT Consortium

Long-term monitoring of the ANTARES optical module efficiencies using $^{40}\mathrm{K}$ decays in sea water

Cherenkov light induced by radioactive decay products is one of the major sources of background light for deep-sea neutrino telescopes such as ANTARES. These decays are at the same time a powerful calibration source. Using data collected by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-24 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 , J. Boumaaza , S. Bourret , M. C. Bouwhuis , H. Brânzaş , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , S. Celli , M. Chabab , R. Cherkaoui El Moursli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , M. Colomer , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. F. Díaz , A. Deschamps , 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 , G. Ferrara , L. A. Fusco , P. Gay , 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 , A. Kouchner , M. Kreter , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , C. Lachaud , R. Lahmann , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , G. Levi , M. Lotze , S. Loucatos , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. A. Martínez-Mora , R. Mele , K. Melis , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , S. Navas , E. Nezri , A. Nuñez , M. Organokov , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier , L. Quinn , C. Racca , N. Randazzo , G. Riccobene , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Saldaña , I. Salvadori , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , F. Schüssler , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , A. Trovato , B. Vallage , V. Van Elewyck , F. Versari , D. Vivolo , J. Wilms , D. Zaborov , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

Configuration studies for a cubic-kilometre deep-sea neutrino telescope - KM3NeT - with NESSY, a fast and flexible approach

Theoretical predictions for neutrino fluxes indicate that km$^{3}$ scale detectors are needed to detect certain astrophysical sources. The three Mediterranean experiments, ANTARES, NEMO and NESTOR are working together on a design study,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Carr , D. Dornic , F. Jouvenot , G. Maurin

The Search for Neutrino Sources Beyond the Sun

The hope is that in the near future neutrino astronomy, born with the identification of thermonuclear fusion in the sun and the particle processes controlling the fate of a nearby supernova, will reach throughout and beyond our Galaxy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Barwick , F. Halzen , P. B. Price

Background Light in Potential Sites for the ANTARES Undersea Neutrino Telescope

The ANTARES collaboration has performed a series of {\em in situ} measurements to study the background light for a planned undersea neutrino telescope. Such background can be caused by $^{40}$K decays or by biological activity. We report on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 ANTARES collaboration

Measurement of the atmospheric muon flux with a 4 GeV threshold in the ANTARES neutrino telescope

A new method for the measurement of the muon flux in the deep-sea ANTARES neutrino telescope and its dependence on the depth is presented. The method is based on the observation of coincidence signals in adjacent storeys of the detector.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 ANTARES collaboration

High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Status and Perspectives

The year 2008 has witnessed remarkable steps in developing high energy neutrino telescopes. IceCube at the South Pole has been deployed with 40 of its planned 80 strings and reached half a cubic kilometer instrumented volume, in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christian Spiering

KM3NeT Detection Unit Line Fit reconstruction using positioning sensors data

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

Dark matter search with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

The ANTARES neutrino telescope was completed in 2008 with the installation of its twelfth line. Its scientific scope is very broad, but the two main goals are the observation of astrophysical sources and the indirect detection of dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 J. D. Zornoza

Review of the online analyses of multi-messenger alerts and electromagnetic transient events with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

By constantly monitoring at least one complete hemisphere of the sky, neutrino telescopes are well designed to detect neutrinos emitted by transient astrophysical events. Real-time searches with the ANTARES telescope have been performed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-27 A. Albert , S. Alves , M. André , M. Ardid , S. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , J. Aublin , B. Baret , S. Basa , B. Belhorma , M. Bendahman , F. Benfenati , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , M. Bissinger , J. Boumaaza , M. Bouta , M. C. Bouwhuis , H. Brânzaş , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , B. Caiffi , D. Calvo , S. Campion , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , V. Carretero , S. Celli , M. Chabab , T. N. Chau , R. Cherkaoui El Moursli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , R. Coniglione , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. F. Díaz , B. De Martino , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , A. Domi , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , T. Eberl , T. van Eeden , D. van Eijk , N. El Khayati , A. Enzenhöfer , M. Fasano , P. Fermani , G. Ferrara , F. Filippini , L. Fusco , S. Gagliardini , J. García , P. Gay , N. Geißelbrecht , H. Glotin , R. Gozzini , R. Gracia Ruiz , K. Graf , C. Guidi , L. Haegel , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hößl , J. Hofestädt , F. Huang , G. Illuminati , C. W. James , B. Jisse-Jung , M. de Jong , P. de Jong , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , A. Kouchner , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , M. Lamoureux , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , G. Levi , S. Le Stum , D. Lopez-Coto , S. Loucatos , L. Maderer , J. Manczak , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. A. Martínez-Mora , K. Melis , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , R. Muller , L. Nauta , S. Navas , E. Nezri , B. Ó Fearraigh , A. Păun , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , M. Perrin-Terrin , V. Pestel , P. Piattelli , C. Pieterse , C. Poirè , V. Popa , T. Pradier , N. Randazzo , D. Real , S. Reck , G. Riccobene , A. Romanov , A. Saina , A. Sánchez-Losa , F. Salesa Greus , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schnabel , J. Schumann , F. Schüssler , J. Seneca , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , S. J. Tingay , B. Vallage , V. Van Elewyck , F. Versari , S. Viola , D. Vivolo , J. Wilms , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zegarelli , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

Search for a neutrino emission from the Fermi Bubbles with the ANTARES telescope

ANTARES is the largest neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere. The main scientific goal is the search for cosmic neutrinos coming from galactic and extragalactic sources. Neutrinos are detected through the Cherenkov light emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-20 Simone Biagi

Model-independent search for neutrino sources with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

A novel method to analyse the spatial distribution of neutrino candidates recorded with the ANTARES neutrino telescope is introduced, searching for an excess of neutrinos in a region of arbitrary size and shape from any direction in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 A. Albert , M. André , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , T. Avgitas , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Martí , S. Basa , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , R. Bormuth , S. Bourret , M. C. Bouwhuis , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , S. Celli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. Deschamps , G. De Bonis , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , T. Eberl , I. El Bojaddaini , D. Elsässer , A. Enzenhöfer , I. Felis , L. A. Fusco , S. Galatà , P. Gay , S. Geißelsöder , K. Geyer , V. Giordano , A. Gleixner , 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 , C. Hugon , 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 , A. Mathieu , R. Mele , K. Melis , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , C. Mueller , E. Nezri , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier , L. Quinn , C. Racca , G. Riccobene , K. Roensch , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Saldaña , I. Salvadori , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schnabel , F. Schüssler , T. Seitz , C. Sieger , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , A. Trovato , M. Tselengidou , D. Turpin , C. Tönnis , B. Vallage , C. Vallée , V. Van Elewyck , D. Vivolo , A. Vizzoca , S. Wagner , J. Wilms , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

Down going muon rate monitoring in the ANTARES detector

Large underwater telescopes have been proposed as a challenging method to measure high energy neutrinos from astrophysical objects. In recent years, The Antares collaboration has designed and realized the first detector of this type in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 K. Gracheva , M. Anghinolfi , V. Kulikovskiy , E. Shirokov , Y. Yakovenko

Searches for point-like sources of cosmic neutrinos with 11 years of ANTARES data

The main goal of the ANTARES neutrino telescope is the identification of neutrinos from cosmic accelerators. The good visibility towards the Southern sky for neutrino energies below 100 TeV and the good angular resolution for reconstructed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-23 Julien Aublin , Giulia Illuminati , Sergio Navas

Prototype acoustic positioning system for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment

We present the design and initial performance characterization of the prototype acoustic positioning system intended for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment. It comprises novel piezo-acoustic receivers with dedicated filtering- and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-12 ONE Collaboration , M. Agostini , S. Agreda , A. Alexander Wight , P. S. Barbeau , A. J. Baron , S. Bash , C. Bellenghi , B. Biffard , M. Boehmer , M. Brandenburg , P. Bunton , N. Cedarblade-Jones , M. Charlton , B. Crudele , M. Danninger , T. DeYoung , F. Fuchs , A. Gärtner , J. Garriz , D. Ghuman , L. Ginzkey , T. Glukler , V. Gousy-Leblanc , D. Grant , A. Grimes , C. Haack , R. Halliday , M. Heesemann , D. Hembroff , F. Henningsen , J. Hutchinson , S. Karanth , T. Kerscher , K. Kopański , C. Kopper , P. Krause , C. B. Krauss , N. Kurahashi , C. Lagunas Gualda , K. Leismüller , R. Li , S. Loipolder , A. Magaña Ponce , S. Magel , P. Malecki , G. Marshall , T. Martin , C. Miller , N. Molberg , R. Moore , L. Muzi , B. Nührenbörger , B. Nichol , W. Noga , R. Ørsøe , L. Papp , V. Parrish , P. Pfahler , B. Pirenne , E. Price , A. Rahlin , M. Rangen , E. Resconi , S. Robertson , D. Salazar-Gallegos , A. Scholz , L. Schumacher , S. Sharma , C. Spannfellner , J. Stacho , I. Taboada , J. P. Twagireyezu , M. Un Nisa , B. Veenstra , C. Weaver , N. Whitehorn , L. Winter , R. Wroński , J. P. Yañez , A. Zaalishvili

The prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT detector

A prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT deep-sea neutrino telescope has been installed at 3500m depth 80km offshore the Italian coast. KM3NeT in its final configuration will contain several hundreds of detection units. Each detection unit…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 KM3NeT Collaboration , S. Adrián-Martínez , M. Ageron , F. Aharonian , S. Aiello , A. Albert , F. Ameli , E. G. Anassontzis , G. C. Androulakis , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , S. Anvar , M. Ardid , T. Avgitas , K. Balasi , H. Band , G. Barbarino , E. Barbarito , F. Barbato , B. Baret , S. Baron , J. Barrios , A. Belias , E. Berbee , A. M. van den Berg , A. Berkien , V. Bertin , S. Beurthey , V. van Beveren , N. Beverini , S. Biagi , A. Biagioni , S. Bianucci , M. Billault , A. Birbas , H. Boer Rookhuizen , R. Bormuth , V. Bouché , B. Bouhadef , G. Bourlis , C. Boutonnet , M. Bouwhuis , C. Bozza , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , G. Cacopardo , L. Caillat , M. Calamai , D. Calvo , A. Capone , L. Caramete , F. Caruso , S. Cecchini , A. Ceres , R. Cereseto , C. Champion , F. Château , T. Chiarusi , B. Christopoulou , M. Circella , L. Classen , R. Cocimano , A. Coleiro , S. Colonges , R. Coniglione , A. Cosquer , M. Costa , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , G. Cuttone , C. D'Amato , A. D'Amico , G. De Bonis , G. De Rosa , N. Deniskina , J. -J. Destelle , C. Distefano , F. Di Capua , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , Q. Dorosti-Hasankiadeh , E. Drakopoulou , D. Drouhin , L. Drury , D. Durand , T. Eberl , D. Elsaesser , A. Enzenhöfer , P. Fermani , L. A. Fusco , D. Gajanana , T. Gal , S. Galatà , F. Garufi , M. Gebyehu , V. Giordano , N. Gizani , R. GraciaRuiz , K. Graf , R. Grasso , G. Grella , A. Grmek , R. Habel , H. van Haren , T. Heid , A. Heijboer , E. Heine , S. Henry , J. J. Hernández-Rey , B. Herold , M. A. Hevinga , M. van der Hoek , J. Hofestädt , J. Hogenbirk , C. Hugon , J. Hößl , M. Imbesi , C. W. James , P. Jansweijer , J. Jochum , M. de Jong , M. Jongen , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , A. Kappes , E. Kappos , U. Katz , O. Kavatsyuk , P. Keller , G. Kieft , E. Koffeman , H. Kok , P. Kooijman , J. Koopstra , A. Korporaal , A. Kouchner , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , P. Lamare , G. Larosa , D. Lattuada , H. Le Provost , K. P. Leismüller , A. Leisos , D. Lenis , E. Leonora , M. LindseyClark , C. D. Llorens Alvarez , H. Löhner , A. Lonardo , S. Loucatos , F. Louis , E. Maccioni , K. Mannheim , K. Manolopoulos , A. Margiotta , O. Mariş , C. Markou , J. A. Martínez-Mora , A. Martini , R. Masullo , K. W. Melis , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , E. Migneco , A. Miraglia , C. M. Mollo , M. Mongelli , M. Morganti , S. Mos , Y. Moudden , P. Musico , M. Musumeci , C. Nicolaou , C. A. Nicolau , A. Orlando , A. Orzelli , A. Papaikonomou , R. Papaleo , G. E. Păvălaş , H. Peek , C. Pellegrino , M. G. Pellegriti , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , K. Pikounis , V. Popa , Th. Pradier , M. Priede , G. Pühlhofer , S. Pulvirenti , C. Racca , F. Raffaelli , N. Randazzo , P. A. Rapidis , P. Razis , D. Real , L. Resvanis , J. Reubelt , G. Riccobene , A. Rovelli , M. Saldaña , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , A. Santangelo , P. Sapienza , J. Schmelling , J. Schnabel , V. Sciacca , M. Sedita , T. Seitz , I. Sgura , F. Simeone , V. Sipala , A. Spitaleri , M. Spurio , G. Stavropoulos , J. Steijger , T. Stolarczyk , D. Stransky , M. Taiuti , G. Terreni , D. Tézier , S. Théraube , L. F. Thompson , P. Timmer , L. Trasatti , A. Trovato , M. Tselengidou , A. Tsirigotis , S. Tzamarias , E. Tzamariudaki , B. Vallage , V. Van Elewyck , J. Vermeulen , P. Vernin , P. Vicini , S. Viola , D. Vivolo , P. Werneke , L. Wiggers , J. Wilms , E. de Wolf , R. H. L. van Wooning , E. Zonca , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga , A. Zwart

Acoustic Transmitters for Underwater Neutrino Telescopes

In this paper acoustic transmitters that were developed for use in underwater neutrino telescopes are presented. Firstly, an acoustic transceiver has been developed as part of the acoustic positioning system of neutrino telescopes. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-05 Miguel Ardid , Juan A. Martínez-Mora , Manuel Bou-Cabo , Giuseppina Larosa , Silvia Adrián-Martínez , Carlos D. Llorens

Time-resolved neutron imaging at ANTARES cold neutron beamline

In non-destructive evaluation with X-rays light elements embedded in dense, heavy (or high-Z) matrices show little contrast and their structural details can hardly be revealed. Neutron radiography, on the other hand, provides a solution for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-03 A. S. Tremsin , V. Dangendorf , K. Tittelmeier , B. Schillinger , M. Schulz , M. Lerche , W. B. Feller

POLARIS: A Sparse Radial Neutrino Telescope Design for the Pacific Ocean

The cubic-kilometer neutrino telescopes have opened neutrino astronomy as an observational discipline. The recent detection of KM3-230213A, the highest-energy neutrino ever observed at ~220 PeV, as a near-horizontal muon track underscores…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Karolin Hymon , Alexander Chen , Meng-Xue Tsai , Wan-Ting Hseu , Tzu-Hsuan Su , Anatoli Fedynitch

A Deep Sea Telescope for High Energy Neutrinos

The ANTARES Collaboration proposes to construct a large area water Cherenkov detector in the deep Mediterranean Sea, optimised for the detection of muons from high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. This paper presents the scientific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 ANTARES Collaboration