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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…

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The ANTARES experiment: past, present and future

The ANTARES collaboration aims to build a deep underwater Cherenkov neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea at 2500 m depth, about 40 km off-shore of La Seyne sur Mer, near Toulon. The collaboration was formed in 1996 and the experiment…

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The KM3NeT potential for the next core-collapse supernova observation with neutrinos

The KM3NeT research infrastructure is under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of two water Cherenkov neutrino detectors, ARCA and ORCA, aimed at neutrino astrophysics and oscillation research, respectively. Instrumenting a…

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Status of the KM3NeT real-time analysis framework

Multi-messenger astronomy requires real-time systems capable of rapidly responding to external alerts and sharing significant detections with partner observatories. KM3NeT, a deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea,…

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The status of the ANTARES experiment

ANTARES is a neutrino telescope designed to search for high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources such as quasars, gamma-ray bursters, microquasars, supernova remnants and AGN. The objectives also include the indirect search for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 E. V. Korolkova

The Sound Emission Board of the KM3NeT Acoustic Positioning System

We describe the sound emission board proposed for installation in the acoustic positioning system of the future KM3NeT underwater neutrino telescope. The KM3NeT European consortium aims to build a multi-cubic kilometre underwater neutrino…

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The data acquisition system for the ANTARES neutrino telescope

The ANTARES neutrino telescope is being constructed in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of a large three-dimensional array of photo-multiplier tubes. The data acquisition system of the detector takes care of the digitisation of the…

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Comparison of the measured atmospheric muon flux with Monte Carlo simulations for the first KM3NeT detection units

The KM3NeT Collaboration has successfully deployed its first detection units in the Mediterranean Sea in December 2015 (ARCA) and September 2017 (ORCA). The sample of data collected between September 2016 and March 2017 has been used to…

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Deep learning reconstruction in ANTARES

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