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The ANTARES Collaboration is currently constructing a large neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean sea. The telescope will use a three-dimensional array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to detect the Cherenkov light emitted in sea water by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Kudryavtsev

High energy neutrinos are produced by the annihilation of dark matter particles in our galaxy. These are presently searched for with large area, deep underground neutrino telescopes. Cold dark matter particles, trapped inside the sun, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 F. Halzen , J. E. Jacobsen

Next-generation large-volume detectors, such as GRAND, POEMMA, Trinity, TAROGE-M, TAMBO, or PUEO, have been designed to search for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with unprecedented sensitivity. We propose to use these detectors to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-28 Robert Heighton , Lucien Heurtier , Michael Spannowsky

We imagine that large neutrino telescopes will be built and that distant neutrino sources of high energies and fluxes exist. Some possible, if difficult, uses to which they might be put are described; including (i) detecting neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandip Pakvasa

The ANTARES telescope has the opportunity to detect transient neutrino sources, such as gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae, flares of active nuclei... To enhance the sensitivity to these sources, we have developed a new detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 D. Dornic , S. Basa , J. Brunner , I. Al Samarai , J. Busto , A. Klotz , S. Escoffier , V. Bertin , B. Vallage , B. Gendre , A. Mazure , M. Boer

Neutrino telescopes offer an alternative way to explore the Universe. Several projects are in operation or under construction. A detector under the ocean is very promising because of the very accurate angular resolution that it provides.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Moscoso

The gSeaGen framework has been upgraded to simulate events detectable in neutrino telescopes induced by neutrino or cosmic ray interactions. The new version is well-suited to generate neutrino interactions at energies from a few MeV to EeV,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-13 A. Garcia Soto , C. Distefano , P. Kalaczyński

High energy neutrinos produced in astrophysical processes will allow for a new way of studying the universe. In order to detect the expected flux of high energy neutrinos from specific astrophysical sources, neutrino telescopes of a scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. A. Rapidis

The observation of high energy cosmic neutrinos can shed light on the astrophysical sites and mechanisms involved in the acceleration of protons and nuclei to the high energies observed at Earth by cosmic ray detectors. More generally, high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Juan Jose Hernandez-Rey

This talk summarizes the main physics goals and basic methods of telescopes for high energy neutrinos. It reviews the present status of deep underwater telescopes and sketches the ICECUBE project as an example for a cube kilometer detector.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Spiering

We study the potential of a very large volume underwater Mediterranean neutrino telescope to observe neutrinos from supernova (SN) explosions within our galaxy. The intense neutrino burst emitted in a SN explosion results in a large number…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Leisos , A. G. Tsirigotis , S. E. Tzamarias

The article describes the research program pursued by the TEXONO Collaboration towards an experiment to observe coherent scattering between neutrinos and the nucleus at the power reactor. The motivations of studying this process are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Henry T. Wong

Using the Earth as a neutrino converter, tau neutrino fluxes from astrophysical point sources can be detected by tau-lepton-induced extensive air showers (EASs). Both muon neutrino and tau neutrino induced upward-going EAS signals can be…

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

The behavior of neutrinos is the only phenomenon that cannot be explained by the standard model of particle physics. Because of these mysterious neutrino interactions observed in nature, at present, there is growing interest in this field…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-07 Seonghyeok Jang , Eunju Jeon , Eunil Won , Young Ju Ko , Kyungmin Lee

NEUT is a neutrino-nucleus interaction simulation. It can be used to simulate interactions for neutrinos with between 100 MeV and a few TeV of energy. NEUT is also capable of simulating hadron interactions within a nucleus and is used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Yoshinari Hayato , Luke Pickering

IceCube, a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope will be capable of probing neutrino-nucleon interactions in the ultrahigh energy regime, far beyond the energies reached by colliders. In this article we introduce a new observable that combines…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matias M. Reynoso , Oscar A. Sampayo

The proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce an intense, high-energy beam of neutrinos of all flavors, collimated in the forward direction. Recently two dedicated neutrino experiments, FASER and SND@LHC, have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-20 Akitaka Ariga , Jamie Boyd , Felix Kling , Albert De Roeck

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

To maximize the accuracy of background simulation and event reconstruction, high-energy neutrino telescopes require detailed knowledge of light propagation over a large volume of detection medium. If light scattering and absorption leng ths…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Predrag Miocinovic , Peter Niessen