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The discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube has opened a new window to the Universe. However, the origin of these neutrinos is still a mystery, and some of them could be a result of dark matter interactions such as…

The ANTARES Collaboration is aiming at the construction and the operation of a large undersea neutrino telescope for neutrino astronomy, neutrino oscillation and indirect dark matter searches. Started 3 years ago an intensive R&D program…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Montanet

A study of the ultra high energy neutrino detection performances of a km^3 Neutrino Telescope sitting at the three proposed sites for "ANTARES", "NEMO" and "NESTOR" in the Mediterranean sea is here performed. The detected charged leptons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-26 E. Borriello , G. Miele , O. Pisanti

The acoustic neutrino detection technique is a promising approach for future large-scale detectors with the aim of measuring the small expected flux of neutrinos at energies in the EeV-range and above. The technique is based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Robert Lahmann

Arrays of acoustic receivers are an integral part of present and potential future Cherenkov neutrino telescopes in the deep sea. They measure the positions of individual detector elements which vary with time as an effect of undersea…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-03 Robert Lahmann

The detection of very high energy neutrinos of galactic/extragalactic origin requires very large detectors and a large overburden as a shield against the background of cosmic ray muons. ANTARES is at present the largest (effective area…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Maurizio Spurio

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

The ANTARES detector, completed in 2008, is the largest neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere. Located at a depth of 2.5 km in the Mediterranean Sea, 40 km off the Toulon shore, its main goal is the search for astrophysical high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-11 The ANTARES Collaboration

Several projects are concentrating their efforts on opening the high energy neutrino window on the Universe with km-scale detectors. The detection principle relies on the observation, using photomultipliers, of the Cherenkov light emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-08 Antoine Kouchner

The simultaneous observation of gamma rays and neutrinos from the same astrophysical source offers a unique opportunity to probe particle acceleration and interaction mechanisms in ultra-high-energy environments. The Cherenkov Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Gloria Maria Cicciari , Manuela Mallamaci , Giovanni Marsella , Alberto Rosales de León , Olga Sergijenko , Giovanna Ferrara

A water \v{C}erenkov detector project, of megaton scale, to be installed in the Fr\'ejus underground site and dedicated to nucleon decay, neutrinos from supernovae, solar and atmospheric neutrinos, as well as neutrinos from a super-beam…

Non-standard interactions (NSIs) in the propagation of neutrinos in matter can lead to significant deviations in neutrino oscillations expected within the standard 3-neutrino framework. These additional interactions would result in an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-10-27 J. J. Hernández Rey , N. R. Khan Chowdhury , J. Manczak , S. Navas , J. D. Zornoza

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

In this paper, we study the capability of different long-baseline experiment options at the KM3NeT facility i.e., P2O, Upgraded P2O and P2SO to probe the light sterile neutrino and compare their sensitivities with DUNE. The P2O option will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Dinesh Kumar Singha , Monojit Ghosh , Rudra Majhi , Rukmani Mohanta

Neutrino astrophysics offers new perspectives on the Universe investigation: high energy neutrinos, produced by the most energetic phenomena in our Galaxy and in the Universe, carry complementary (if not exclusive) information about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-11 T. Chiarusi , M. Spurio

The ANTARES detector is a Cherenkov underwater neutrino telescope operating in the Mediterranean Sea. Its construction was completed in 2008. Even though optimised for the search of cosmic neutrinos, this telescope is also sensitive to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 M. Bouta , A. Moussa , Y. Tayalati , G. E. Păvălaş , J. Brunner

ANTARES is currently the largest undersea neutrino telescope, located in the Mediterranean Sea and taking data since 2007. It consists of a 3D array of photo sensors, instrumenting about 10Mt of seawater to detect Cherenkov light induced by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 J. García-Méndez , N. Geißelbrecht , T. Eberl , M. Ardid , S. Ardid

The cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope, which consists of large-scale 3D-arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) currently under construction on the Mediterranean seabed, relies on accurate calibration procedures in order to answer its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Bouke Jung , Maarten de Jong , Paolo Fermani

We explore the physics reach of several possible configurations for a Super-Beam experiment in Europe, focusing on the possibilities of discovering $\theta_{13}$, CP violation in the leptonic sector and the ordering of neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-13 Pilar Coloma , Tracey Li , Silvia Pascoli

Neutrino observatories such as IceCube, Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT), and Super-Kamiokande cover a broad energy range that enables the study of both atmospheric neutrinos and astrophysical neutrinos. IceCube and KM3NeT focus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-31 Shiqi Yu