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1. First Searches for Dark Matter with the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescopes

Author: KM3NeT Collaboration, Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alhebsi, A. R., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. Alves, Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aublin, J., Badaracco, F., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardačová, Z., Baret, B., Bariego-Quintana, A., Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Bennani, M., Benoit, D. M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Bonanno, D., Bouasla, A. B., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R. M., Brânzăş, H., Bretaudeau, F., Breuhaus, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Clark, R., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Condorelli, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., De Wasseige, G., Decoene, V., Del Rosso, I., Di Mauro, L. S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Ducoin, J. -G., Dvornický, R., Eberl, T., Eckerová, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Ellajosyula, V., Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Franciotti, D., Fusco, L. A., Gagliardini, S., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Genton, E., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B. K., Giorgio, E., Goos, I., Goswami, P., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., Haack, C., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., Joly, D., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kovalev, Y. Y., Kueviakoe, V., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazar, J., Lazo, A., Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Lemaître, V., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Clark, M. Lindsey, Longhitano, F., Magnani, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Manfreda, A., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Mauro, J., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mitsou, M. L., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., Paesani, D., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Parisi, V., Gómez, E. J. Pastor, Pastore, C., Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Martínez, S. Peña, Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Plavin, A., Poiré, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Prado, J., Pulvirenti, S., Quiroz-Rangel, C. A., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Ros, E., Šaina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanfilippo, S., Sanguineti, M., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sennan, N., Sevle, P., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Taiuti, M., Takadze, G., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Thoudam, S., Melo, I. Tosta e, Trocmé, B., Tsourapis, V., Tudorache, A., Tzamariudaki, E., Ukleja, A., Vacheret, A., Valsecchi, V., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., van Vliet, A., de Wolf, E., Lhenry-Yvon, I., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Indirect dark matter detection methods are used to observe the products of dark matter annihilations or decays originating from astrophysical objects where large amounts of dark matter are thought to accumulate. With neutrino telescopes, an excess of neutrinos is searched for in nearby dark matter reservoirs, such as the Sun and the Galactic Centre, which could potentially produce a sizeable flux of Standard Model particles. The KM3NeT infrastructure, currently under construction, comprises the ARCA and ORCA undersea \v{C}erenkov neutrino detectors located at two different sites in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore of Italy and France, respectively. The two detector configurations are optimised for the detection of neutrinos of different energies, enabling the search for dark matter particles with masses ranging from a few GeV/c$^2$ to hundreds of TeV/c$^2$. In this work, searches for dark matter annihilations in the Galactic Centre and the Sun with data samples taken with the first configurations of both detectors are presented. No significant excess over the expected background was found in either of the two analyses. Limits on the velocity-averaged self-annihilation cross section of dark matter particles are computed for five different primary annihilation channels in the Galactic Centre. For the Sun, limits on the spin-dependent and spin-independent scattering cross sections of dark matter with nucleons are given for three annihilation channels.
Published: 2024

2. gSeaGen code by KM3NeT: an efficient tool to propagate muons simulated with CORSIKA

Author: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alhebsi, A. R., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. Alves, Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Badaracco, F., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardačová, Z., Baret, B., Bariego-Quintana, A., Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Bennani, M., Benoit, D. M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Bonanno, D., Bouasla, A. B., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R. M., Brânzaş, H., Bretaudeau, F., Breuhaus, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Condorelli, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., De Wasseige, G., Decoene, V., Del Rosso, I., Di Mauro, L. S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Ducoin, J. -G., Dvornický, R., Eberl, T., Eckerová, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Ellajosyula, V., Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Franciotti, D., Fusco, L. A., Gagliardini, S., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Genton, E., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B. K., Giorgio, E., Goos, I., Goswami, P., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., Haack, C., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., Joly, D., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kalaczyński, P., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kovalev, Y. Y., Kueviakoe, V., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Lemaître, V., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Clark, M. Lindsey, Longhitano, F., Magnani, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Mańczak, J., Manfreda, A., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Mauro, J., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mitsou, M. L., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., Paesani, D., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Parisi, V., Gomez, E. J. Pastor, Pastore, C., Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Martínez, S. Peña, Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Plavin, A., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Prado, J., Pulvirenti, S., Quiroz-Rangel, C. A., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanov, A., Ros, E., Šaina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanfilippo, S., Sanguineti, M., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Thoudam, S., Melo, I. Tosta e, Trocmé, B., Tsourapis, V., Tudorache, A., Tzamariudaki, E., Ukleja, A., Vacheret, A., Valsecchi, V., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., van Vliet, A., de Wolf, E., Lhenry-Yvon, I., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Computational Physics
Abstract: The KM3NeT Collaboration has tackled a common challenge faced by the astroparticle physics community, namely adapting the experiment-specific simulation software to work with the CORSIKA air shower simulation output. The proposed solution is an extension of the open-source code gSeaGen, allowing for the transport of muons generated by CORSIKA to a detector of any size at an arbitrary depth. The gSeaGen code was not only extended in terms of functionalities but also underwent a thorough redesign of the muon propagation routine, resulting in a more accurate and efficient simulation. This paper presents the capabilities of the new gSeaGen code as well as prospects for further developments., Comment: 27 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Computer Physics Communications
Published: 2024

3. Search for quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillations with six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA

Author: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alhebsi, A. R., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. Alves, Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Badaracco, F., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardacova, Z., Baret, B., Bariego-Quintana, A., Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Bennani, M., Benoit, D. M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Bonanno, D., Bouasla, A. B., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R. M., Branzas, H., Bretaudeau, F., Breuhaus, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Condorelli, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., De Wasseige, G., Decoene, V., Del Rosso, I., Di Mauro, L. S., Di Palma, I., Diaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Ducoin, J. -G., Dvornicky, R., Eberl, T., Eckerova, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Ellajosyula, V., Enzenhoefer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipovic, M. D., Filippini, F., Franciotti, D., Fusco, L. A., Gagliardini, S., Gal, T., Mendez, J. Garcia, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Genton, E., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B. K., Giorgio, E., Goos, I., Goswami, P., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutierrez, M., Haack, C., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hennig, L., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., Joly, D., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kovalev, Y. Y., Kueviakoe, V., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Lemaitre, V., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Clark, M. Lindsey, Longhitano, F., Magnani, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Manczak, J., Manfreda, A., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Mauro, J., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mitsou, M. L., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. O., Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., Gonzalez, D. Paesaniy J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Parisi, V., Gomez, E. J. Pastor, Pastore, C., Paun, A. M., Pavala, G. E., Martinez, S. Pena, Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Plavin, A., Poire, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Prado, J., Pulvirenti, S., Quiroz-Rangel, C. A., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Robinson, G. Riccobene. J., Romanov, A., Ros, E., Saina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sanchez, Sanfilippo, S., Sanguineti, M., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Shitov, Y., Simkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Stekl, I., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Thoudam, S., Tosta, I., Melo, e, Trocme, B., Tsourapis, V., Tudorache, A., Tzamariudaki, E., Ukleja, A., Vacheret, A., Valsecchi, V., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., van Vliet, A., de Wolf, E., Lhenry-Yvon, I., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zuniga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Neutrinos described as an open quantum system may interact with the environment which introduces stochastic perturbations to their quantum phase. This mechanism leads to a loss of coherence along the propagation of the neutrino $-$ a phenomenon commonly referred to as decoherence $-$ and ultimately, to a modification of the oscillation probabilities. Fluctuations in space-time, as envisaged by various theories of quantum gravity, are a potential candidate for a decoherence-inducing environment. Consequently, the search for decoherence provides a rare opportunity to investigate quantum gravitational effects which are usually beyond the reach of current experiments. In this work, quantum decoherence effects are searched for in neutrino data collected by the KM3NeT/ORCA detector from January 2020 to November 2021. The analysis focuses on atmospheric neutrinos within the energy range of a few GeV to $100\,\mathrm{GeV}$. Adopting the open quantum system framework, decoherence is described in a phenomenological manner with the strength of the effect given by the parameters $\Gamma_{21}$ and $\Gamma_{31}$. Following previous studies, a dependence of the type $\Gamma_{ij} \propto (E/E_0)^n$ on the neutrino energy is assumed and the cases $n = -2,-1$ are explored. No significant deviation with respect to the standard oscillation hypothesis is observed. Therefore, $90\,\%$ CL upper limits are estimated as $\Gamma_{21} < 4.6\cdot 10^{-21}\,$GeV and $\Gamma_{31} < 8.4\cdot 10^{-21}\,$GeV for $n = -2$, and $\Gamma_{21} < 1.9\cdot 10^{-22}\,$GeV and $\Gamma_{31} < 2.7\cdot 10^{-22}\,$GeV for $n = -1$, respectively., Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2024

4. Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA

Author: KM3NeT Collaboration, Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alhebsi, A. R., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. Alves, Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Badaracco, F., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardačová, Z., Baret, B., Bariego-Quintana, A., Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Bennani, M., Benoit, D. M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Bonanno, D., Bouasla, A. B., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R. M., Brânzaş, H., Bretaudeau, F., Breuhaus, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Condorelli, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., De Wasseige, G., Decoene, V., Del Rosso, I., Di Mauro, L. S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Ducoin, J. -G., Dvornický, R., Eberl, T., Eckerová, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Ellajosyula, V., Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Franciotti, D., Fusco, L. A., Gagliardini, S., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Genton, E., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B. K., Giorgio, E., Goos, I., Goswami, P., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., Haack, C., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., Joly, D., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kovalev, Y. Y., Kueviakoe, V., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Lemaítre, V., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Clark, M. Lindsey, Longhitano, F., Magnani, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Mańczak, J., Manfreda, A., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Mauro, J., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mitsou, M. L., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., Paesani, D., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Parisi, V., Gomez, E. J. Pastor, Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Martínez, S. Peña, Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Plavin, A., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Prado, J., Pulvirenti, S., Quiroz-Rangel, C. A., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanov, A., Ros, E., Šaina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanfilippo, S., Sanguineti, M., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Thoudam, S., Melo, I. Tosta e, Trocmé, B., Tsourapis, V., Tudorache, A., Tzamariudaki, E., Ukleja, A., Vacheret, A., Valsecchi, V., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., van Vliet, A., de Wolf, E., Yvon, I., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: 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. This paper focuses on an initial configuration of ORCA, referred to as ORCA6, which comprises six out of the foreseen 115 detection units of photo-sensors. A high-purity neutrino sample was extracted, corresponding to an exposure of 433 kton-years. The sample of 5828 neutrino candidates is analysed following a binned log-likelihood method in the reconstructed energy and cosine of the zenith angle. The atmospheric oscillation parameters are measured to be $\sin^2\theta_{23}= 0.51^{+0.04}_{-0.05}$, and $ \Delta m^2_{31} = 2.18^{+0.25}_{-0.35}\times 10^{-3}~\mathrm{eV^2} \cup \{-2.25,-1.76\}\times 10^{-3}~\mathrm{eV^2}$ at 68\% CL. The inverted neutrino mass ordering hypothesis is disfavoured with a p-value of 0.25., Comment: 29 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2024

5. First results on new helium based eco-gas mixtures for the Extreme Energy Events Project

Author: Abbrescia, M., Avanzini, C., Baldini, L., Ferroli, R. Baldini, Batignani, G., Battaglieri, M., Boi, S., Bossini, E., Carnesecchi, F., Cavazza, F., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Coccetti, F., Coccia, E., Corvaglia, A., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., Galante, L., Garbini, M., Gnesi, I., Gramegna, F., Grazzi, S., Hatzifotiadou, D., La Rocca, P., Liu, Z., Mandaglio, G., Margotti, A., Maron, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mulliri, A., Nania, R., Noferini, F., Nozzoli, F., Palmonari, F., Panareo, M., Panetta, M. P., Paoletti, R., Pellegrino, C., Perasso, L., Pinazza, O., Pinto, C., Pisano, S., Riggi, F., Righini, G., Ripoli, C., Rizzi, M., Sartorelli, G., Scapparone, E., Schioppa, M., Scioli, G., Scribano, A., Selvi, M., Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Trifirò, A., Trimarchi, M., Vistoli, C., Votano, L., Williams, M. C. S., Zichichi, A., and Zuyeuski, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project, a joint project of the Centro Fermi (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "E.Fermi") and INFN, has a dual purpose: a scientific research program on cosmic rays at ground level and an intense outreach and educational program. The project consists in a network of about 60 tracking detectors, called telescopes, mostly hosted in Italian High Schools. Each telescope is made by three Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers, operated so far with a gas mixture composed by 98% C$_2$H$_2$F$_4$ and 2% SF$_6$. Due to its high Global Warming Potential, a few years ago the EEE collaboration has started an extensive R&D on alternative mixtures environmentally sustainable and compatible with the current experimental setup and operational environment. Among other gas mixtures, the one with helium and hydrofluoroolefin R1234ze gave the best result during the preliminary tests performed with two of the network telescopes. The detector has proved to reach performance levels comparable to those obtained with previous mixtures, without any modification of the hardware. We will discuss the first results obtained with the new mixture, tested with different percentages of the two components., Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, submitted to JINST
Published: 2024
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6. Constraints on the energy spectrum of the diffuse cosmic neutrino flux from the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Becherini, Y., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., De Martino, B., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Hedri, S. El, Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L. A., Gagliardini, S., García, J., Oliver, C. Gatius, Gay, P., Geißelbrecht, N., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Haegel, L., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Lazo, A., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Stum, S. Le, Loucatos, S., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oukacha, E., Păun, A., Păvălaş, G. E., Peña-Martínez, S., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Losa, A. Sánchez, Saina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Vallage, B., Vannoye, G., Van Elewyck, V., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: High-significance evidences of the existence of a high-energy diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos have emerged in the last decade from several observations by the IceCube Collaboration. The ANTARES neutrino telescope took data for 15 years in the Mediterranean Sea, from 2007 to 2022, and collected a high-purity all-flavour neutrino sample. The search for a diffuse cosmic neutrino signal using this dataset is presented in this article. This final analysis did not provide a statistically significant observation of the cosmic diffuse flux. However, this is converted into limits on the properties of the cosmic neutrino spectrum. In particular, given the sensitivity of the ANTARES neutrino telescope between 1 and 50 TeV, constraints on single-power-law hypotheses are derived for the cosmic diffuse flux below 20 TeV, especially for power-law fits of the IceCube data with spectral index softer than 2.8.
Published: 2024
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7. Acoustic Positioning for Deep Sea Neutrino Telescopes with a System of Piezo Sensors Integrated into Glass Spheres

Author: Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Becherini, Y., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., De Martino, B., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Hedri, S. El, Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gagliardini, S., García, J., Oliver, C. Gatius, Gay, P., Geißelbrecht, N., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Haegel, L., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Lazo, A., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Stum, S. Le, Loucatos, S., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oukacha, E., Păun, A., Păvălaş, G. E., Peña-Martínez, S., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Vallage, B., Vannoye, G., Van Elewyck, V., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Position calibration in the deep sea is typically done by means of acoustic multilateration using three or more acoustic emitters installed at known positions. Rather than using hydrophones as receivers that are exposed to the ambient pressure, the sound signals can be coupled to piezo ceramics glued to the inside of existing containers for electronics or measuring instruments of a deep sea infrastructure. The ANTARES neutrino telescope operated from 2006 until 2022 in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth exceeding 2000m. It comprised nearly 900 glass spheres with 432mm diameter and 15mm thickness, equipped with photomultiplier tubes to detect Cherenkov light from tracks of charged elementary particles. In an experimental setup within ANTARES, piezo sensors have been glued to the inside of such - otherwise empty - glass spheres. These sensors recorded signals from acoustic emitters with frequencies from 46545 to 60235Hz. Two waves propagating through the glass sphere are found as a result of the excitation by the waves in the water. These can be qualitatively associated with symmetric and asymmetric Lamb-like waves of zeroth order: a fast (early) one with $v_e \approx 5$mm/$\mu$s and a slow (late) one with $v_\ell \approx 2$mm/$\mu$s. Taking these findings into account improves the accuracy of the position calibration. The results can be transferred to the KM3NeT neutrino telescope, currently under construction at multiple sites in the Mediterranean Sea, for which the concept of piezo sensors glued to the inside of glass spheres has been adapted for monitoring the positions of the photomultiplier tubes., Comment: submitted to "Experimental Astronomy"
Published: 2024

8. Search for Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A using the KM3NeT ARCA and ORCA detectors

Author: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. Alves, Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androutsou, E., Anguita, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Badaracco, F., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardačová, Z., Baret, B., Bariego-Quintana, A., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Benoit, D. M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Bonanno, D., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R. M., Brânzaş, H., Bretaudeau, F., Breuhaus, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chadolias, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Condorelli, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., Darras, Y., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., Decoene, V., Del Burgo, R., Del Rosso, I., Di Mauro, L. S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diaz, C., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Ducoin, J. G., Dvornický, R., Eberl, T., Eckerová, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Franciotti, D., Fusco, L. A., Gagliardini, S., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B. K., Giorgio, E., Goos, I., Goswami, P., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., Haack, C., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., Joly, D., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Kharkhelauri, L., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kueviakoe, V., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Longhitano, F., Magnani, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Mańczak, J., Manfreda, A., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Marzaioli, F., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Miccichè, S., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mitsou, M. L., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Moretti, G., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., Paesani, D., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Parisi, V., Gomez, E. J. Pastor, Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pelegris, I., Martínez, S. Pena, Perrin-Terrin, M., Perronnel, J., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Prado, J., Pulvirenti, S., Quiroz-Rangel, C. A., Rahaman, U., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanov, A., Šaina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanfilippo, S., Sanguineti, M., Santonastaso, C., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sennan, N., Setter, B., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Smirnov, M. V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Taiuti, M., Tangorra-Cascione, R., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Melo, I. Tosta e, Tragia, E., Trocmé, B., Tsourapis, V., Tudorache, A., Tzamariudaki, E., Ukleja, A., Vacheret, A., Melchor, A. Valer, Valsecchi, V., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yepes-Ramirez, H., Yvon, I., Zarpapis, G., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Gamma-ray bursts are promising candidate sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The recent GRB 221009A event, identified as the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected, provides a unique opportunity to investigate hadronic emissions involving neutrinos. The KM3NeT undersea neutrino detectors participated in the worldwide follow-up effort triggered by the event, searching for neutrino events. In this letter, we summarize subsequent searches, in a wide energy range from MeV up to a few PeVs. No neutrino events are found in any of the searches performed. Upper limits on the neutrino emission associated with GRB 221009A are computed., Comment: 11 pages, 2 PDF figures. Submitted to JCAP
Published: 2024

9. Results of the follow-up of ANTARES neutrino alerts

Author: Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Becherini, Y., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzas, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carenini, F., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A. S. M., Díaz, A. F., De Martino, B., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Hedri, S. El, Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gagliardini, S., García, J., Oliver, C. Gatius, Gay, P., Geißelbrecht, N., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Haegel, L., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Lazo, A., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Stum, S. Le, Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oukacha, E., Pāun, A., Pāvālas, G. E., Peña-Martínez, S., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Vannoye, G., Van Elewyck, V., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Lipunov, V., Antipov, G., Balanutsa, P., Buckley, D., Budnev, N., Chasovnikov, A., Cheryasov, D., Francile, C., Gabovich, A., Gorbovskoy, E., Gorbunov, I., Gress, O., Kornilov, V., Kuznetsov, A., Iyudin, A., Podesta, R., Podesta, F., Lopez, R. Rebolo, Senik, V., Sierra-Rucart, M., Svertilov, S., Tiurina, N., Vlasenko, D., Yashin, I., Zhirkov, K., Croft, S., Kaplan, D. L., Anderson, G. E., Williams, A., Dobie, D., Bannister, K. W., Hancock, P. J., Evans, P. A., Kennea, J. A., Osborne, J. P., Cenko, S. B., Antier, S., Atteia, J. L., Boër, M., Klotz, A., Chaty, S., Hodapp, K., and Savchenko, V.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: High-energy neutrinos could be produced in the interaction of charged cosmic rays with matter or radiation surrounding astrophysical sources. To look for transient sources associated with neutrino emission, a follow-up program of neutrino alerts has been operating within the ANTARES Collaboration since 2009. This program, named TAToO, has triggered robotic optical telescopes (MASTER, TAROT, ROTSE and the SVOM ground based telescopes) immediately after the detection of any relevant neutrino candidate and scheduled several observations in the weeks following the detection. A subset of ANTARES events with highest probabilities of being of cosmic origin has also been followed by the Swift and the INTEGRAL satellites, the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope and the H.E.S.S. high-energy gamma-ray telescope. The results of twelve years of observations are reported. No optical counterpart has been significantly associated with an ANTARES candidate neutrino signal during image analysis. Constraints on transient neutrino emission have been set. In September 2015, ANTARES issued a neutrino alert and during the follow-up, a potential transient counterpart was identified by Swift and MASTER. A multi-wavelength follow-up campaign has allowed to identify the nature of this source and has proven its fortuitous association with the neutrino. The return of experience is particularly important for the design of the alert system of KM3NeT, the next generation neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea., Comment: 27 pages, 14 figures, submitted to JCAP
Published: 2024

10. Astronomy potential of KM3NeT/ARCA

Author: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androutsou, E., Anguita, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Badaracco, F., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardacová, Z., Baret, B., Bariego-Quintana, A., Baruzzi, A., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Benoit, D. M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Bonanno, D., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R. M., Brânzas, H., Bretaudeau, F., Breuhaus, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chadolias, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., Darras, Y., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., Decoene, V., Del Burgo, R., Del Rosso, I., Di Mauro, L. S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diaz, C., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Ducoin, J. G., Dvornický, R., Eberl, T., Eckerová, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipovic, M. D., Filippini, F., Franciotti, D., Fusco, L. A., Gabriel, J., Gagliardini, S., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B. K., Giorgio, E., Goos, I., Goswami, P., Goupilliere, D., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kalaczynski, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kueviakoe, V., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Clark, M. Lindsey, Longhitano, F., Magnani, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Manczak, J., Manfreda, A., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Marzaioli, F., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Miccichè, S., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mitsou, M. L., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Morga, M., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., Paesani, D., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Parisi, V., Gomez, E. J. Pastor, Paun, A. M., Pavalas, G. E., Pelegris, I., Martínez, S. Peña, Perrin-Terrin, M., Perronnel, J., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Prado, J., Pulvirenti, S., Quiroz-Rangel, C. A., Rahaman, U., Randazzo, N., Randriatoamanana, R., Razzaque, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanov, A., Šaina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanfilippo, S., Sanguineti, M., Santonastaso, C., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sennan, N., Setter, B., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Smirnov, M. V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Melo, I. Tosta e, Tragia, E., Trocmé, B., Tsourapis, V., Tudorache, A., Tzamariudaki, E., Vacheret, A., Melchor, A. Valer, Valsecchi, V., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Verilhac, C., Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yepes-Ramirez, H., Zarpapis, G., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino detector is currently under construction at 3500 m depth offshore Capo Passero, Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea. The main science objectives are the detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos and the discovery of their sources. Simulations were conducted for the full KM3NeT/ARCA detector, instrumenting a volume of 1 km$^3$, to estimate the sensitivity and discovery potential to point-like neutrino sources and an all-sky diffuse neutrino flux. This paper covers the reconstruction of track- and shower-like signatures, as well as the criteria employed for neutrino event selection. By leveraging both the track and shower observation channels, the KM3NeT/ARCA detector demonstrates the capability to detect the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux within half a year of operation, achieving a 5$\sigma$ statistical significance. With an angular resolution below 0.1$^\circ$ for tracks and under 2$^\circ$ for showers, the sensitivity to point-like neutrino sources surpasses existing observed limits across the entire sky., Comment: 20 pages, 30 figures, Published by EPJ-C
Published: 2024
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11. Searches for neutrino counterparts of gravitational waves from the LIGO/Virgo third observing run with KM3NeT

Author: KM3NeT Collaboration, Aiello, S., Albert, A., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androutsou, E., Anguita, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardačová, Z., Baret, B., Bariego-Quintana, A., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Benoit, D. M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Bonanno, D., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R. M., Brânzaş, H., Bretaudeau, F., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chadolias, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., Darras, Y., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., De Wasseige, G., Decoene, V., Del Burgo, R., Del Rosso, I., Di Cerbo, U. M., Di Mauro, L. S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diaz, C., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Dvornický, R., Eberl, T., Eckerová, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Franciotti, D., Fusco, L. A., Gabriel, J., Gagliardini, S., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B. K., Giorgio, E., Goos, I., Goswami, P., Goupilliere, D., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Khatun, A., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kueviakoe, V., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Clark, M. Lindsey, Longhitano, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Mańczak, J., Manfreda, A., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Marzaioli, F., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Miccichè, S., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mitsou, M. L., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Morga, M., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., Paesani, D., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Parisi, V., Gomez, E. J. Pastor, Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Martínez, S. Peña, Perrin-Terrin, M., Perronnel, J., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Prado, J., Pulvirenti, S., Quéméner, G., Quiroz-Rangel, C. A., Rahaman, U., Randazzo, N., Randriatoamanana, R., Razzaque, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanov, A., Šaina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanfilippo, S., Sanguineti, M., Santonastaso, C., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sennan, N., Setter, B., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Smirnov, M. V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Melo, I. Tosta e, Tragia, E., Trocmé, B., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Vacheret, A., Melchor, A. Valer, Valsecchi, V., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Verilhac, C., Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yepes-Ramirez, H., Zarpapis, G., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: The KM3NeT neutrino telescope is currently being deployed at two different sites in the Mediterranean Sea. First searches for astrophysical neutrinos have been performed using data taken with the partial detector configuration already in operation. The paper presents the results of two independent searches for neutrinos from compact binary mergers detected during the third observing run of the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave interferometers. The first search looks for a global increase in the detector counting rates that could be associated with inverse beta decay events generated by MeV-scale electron anti-neutrinos. The second one focuses on upgoing track-like events mainly induced by muon (anti-)neutrinos in the GeV--TeV energy range. Both searches yield no significant excess for the sources in the gravitational wave catalogs. For each source, upper limits on the neutrino flux and on the total energy emitted in neutrinos in the respective energy ranges have been set. Stacking analyses of binary black hole mergers and neutron star-black hole mergers have also been performed to constrain the characteristic neutrino emission from these categories., Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures
Published: 2023
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12. Ecological transition for the gas mixtures of the MRPC cosmic ray telescopes of the EEE Project

Author: Ripoli, C., Abbrescia, M., Avanzini, C., Baldini, L., Ferroli, R. Baldini, Batignani, G., Battaglieri, M., Boi, S., Bossini, E., Carnesecchi, F., Cavazza, D., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Coccetti, F., Coccia, E., Corvaglia, A., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., Galante, L., Garbini, M., Gnesi, I., Gramstad, E., Grazzi, S., Håland, E. S., Hatzifotiadou, D., La Rocca, P., Liu, Z., Lombardo, L., Mandaglio, G., Margotti, A., Maron, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mulliri, A., Nania, R., Noferini, F., Nozzoli, F., Ould-Saada, F., Palmonari, F., Panareo, M., Panetta, M. P., Paoletti, R., Parvis, M., Pellegrino, C., Perasso, L., Pinazza, O., Pinto, C., Pisano, S., Riggi, F., Righini, G., Rizzi, M., Sartorelli, G., Scapparone, E., Schioppa, M., Scioli, G., Scribano, A., Selvi, M., Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Trifirò, A., Trimarchi, M., Vistoli, C., Votano, L., Williams, M. C. S., Zichichil, A., and Zuyeuskiv, R.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Collaboration is fully involved in an ecological transition. The use of the standard gas mixture, \ce{C_{2}H_{2}F_{4}}+ \ce{SF_{6}}, has stopped in favor of an alternative green mixture based on \ce{C_{3}H_{2}F_{4}} with the addition of He or \ce{CO_{2}}. The choise of these new mixtures is motivated by the significant lower Global Warming Potential (GWP) to reduce the emission of gases potentially contributing to the greenhouse effect. The EEE experiment consists of 61 muon telescopes based on Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs), each telescope composed of 3 chambers filled with gas. Several EEE detectors are today completely fluxed with the new ecological mixture. This contribution will report recent results about the telescope performance obtained from studies with the eco-friendly alternative mixture carried out in the last years.
Published: 2023

13. Beam Charge Asymmetries for Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering on the Proton at CLAS12

Author: Voutier, E., Burkert, V., Niccolai, S., Paremuzyan, R., Afanasev, A., Alvarado-Galeano, J. -S., Atoui, M., Barion, L., Battaglieri, M., Bernauer, J., Bianconi, A., Bondi, M., Briscoe, W., Camsonne, A., Capobianco, R., Celentano, A., Chatagnon, P., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Cole, P., Contalbrigo, M., Costantini, G., Defurne, M., Deur, A., De Vita, R., Diehl, S., Dupré, R., Elouadrhiri, L., Fernando, I., Filippi, A., Forest, T., Girod, F. -X., Gosta, G., Grames, J., Gueye, P., Habet, S., Hattawy, M., Higinbotham, D., Hobart, A., Hyde, C., Joo, K., Kim, A., Klimenko, V., Kubarovsky, V., Leali, M., Lenisa, P., Marchand, D., Marsicano, L., Mascagna, V., Matamoros, D., McCaughan, M., McKinnon, B., Migliorati, S., Mitra, H. S., Movsisyan, A., Muñoz-Camacho, C., Osipenko, M., Ouillon, M., Pappalardo, L., Pasquini, B., Pasyuk, E., Pilleux, N., Poelker, M., Raue, B., Ripani, M., Santos, R., Schmidt, A., Singh, R., Sokhan, D., Spreafico, M., Stoler, P., Strakovsky, I., Taiuti, M., Venturelli, L., Wang, P. -K., Wei, X., Zhao, Z., Collaboration, the CLAS, and Group, the Jefferson Lab Positron Working
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The parameterization of the nucleon structure through Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) shed a new light on the nucleon internal dynamics. For its direct interpretation, Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) is the golden channel for GPDs investigation. The DVCS process interferes with the Bethe-Heitler (BH) mechanism to constitute the leading order amplitude of the $eN \to eN\gamma$ process. The study of the $ep\gamma$ reaction with polarized positron and electron beams gives a complete set of unique observables to unravel the different contributions to the $ep \gamma$ cross section. This separates the different reaction amplitudes, providing a direct access to their real and imaginary parts which procures crucial constraints on the model dependences and associated systematic uncertainties on GPDs extraction. The real part of the BH-DVCS interference amplitude is particularly sensitive to the $D$-term which parameterizes the Gravitational Form Factors of the nucleon. The separation of the imaginary parts of the interference and DVCS amplitudes provides insights on possible higher-twist effects. We propose to measure the unpolarized and polarized Beam Charge Asymmetries (BCAs) of the $\vec{e}^{\pm}p \to e^{\pm}p \gamma$ process on an unpolarized hydrogen target with {\tt CLAS12}, using polarized positron and electron beams at 10.6 GeV. The azimuthal and $t$-dependences of the unpolarized and polarized BCAs will be measured over a large $(x_B,Q^2)$ phase space using a 100 day run with a luminosity of 0.66$\times 10^{35}$cm$^{-2}\cdot$s$^{-1}$., Comment: Proposal to the Jefferson Lab Program Advisory Committee (PAC51)
Published: 2023

14. Searches for neutrinos in the direction of radio-bright blazars with the ANTARES telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. J., Aublin, J, Baret, B., Basa, S., Becherini, Y., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carenini, F., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A. S. M., Díaz, A. F., De Martino, B., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Hedri, S. El, Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gagliardini, S., García, J., Oliver, C. Gatius, Gay, P., Geißelbrecht, N., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Haegel, L., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kovalev, Y. A, Kovalev, Y. Y, Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Lazo, A., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Stum, S. Le, Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oukacha, E., Păun, A., Păvălaş, G. E., Peña-Martínez, S., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Plavin, A., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Pushkarev, A., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Troitsky, S., Vallage, B., Vannoye, G., Van Elewyck, V., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Collaboration, OVRO, Hovatta, T., Kiehlmann, S., Liodakis, I., Pavlidou, V., and Readhead, A. C. S
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Active galaxies, especially blazars, are among the most promising neutrino source candidates. To date, ANTARES searches for these objects considered GeV-TeV $\gamma$-ray bright blazars. Here, a statistically complete radio-bright blazar sample is used as the target for searches of origins of neutrinos collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope over 13 years of operation. The hypothesis of a neutrino-blazar directional correlation is tested by pair counting and by a complementary likelihood-based approach. The resulting post-trial $p$-value is $3.0\%$ ($2.2\sigma$ in the two-sided convention), possibly indicating a correlation. Additionally, a time-dependent analysis is performed to search for temporal clustering of neutrino candidates as a mean of detecting neutrino flares in blazars. None of the investigated sources alone reaches a significant flare detection level. However, the presence of 18 sources with a pre-trial significance above $3\sigma$ indicates a $p=1.4\%$ ($2.5\sigma$ in the two-sided convention) detection of a time-variable neutrino flux. An \textit{a posteriori} investigation reveals an intriguing temporal coincidence of neutrino, radio, and $\gamma$-ray flares of the J0242+1101 blazar at a $p=0.5\%$ ($2.9\sigma$ in the two-sided convention) level. Altogether, the results presented here suggest a possible connection of neutrino candidates detected by the ANTARES telescope with radio-bright blazars.
Published: 2023
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15. Prospects for combined analyses of hadronic emission from $\gamma$-ray sources in the Milky Way with CTA and KM3NeT

Author: Unbehaun, T., Mohrmann, L., Funk, S., Aiello, S., Albert, A., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androutsou, E., Anghinolfi, M., Anguita, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardačová, Z., Baret, B., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Benoit, D. M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Cabo, M. Bou, Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R. M., Brânzaş, H., Bretaudeau, F., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chadolias, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., Darras, Y., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., Decoene, V., Del Burgo, R., Di Mauro, L. S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Dvornický, R., Eberl, T., Eckerová, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Fusco, L. A., Gabriel, J., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B. K., Giorgio, E., Girardi, A., Goos, I., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guderian, D., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Huang, F., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, Khatun, A., Kistauri, G., van der Knaap, F., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Clark, M. Lindsey, Longhitano, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mańczak, J., Manfreda, A., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Marzaioli, F., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Miccichè, S., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Mitsou, M. L., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Morley-Wong, C., Mosbrugger, A., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Gomez, E. J. Pastor, Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Martínez, S. Peña, Perrin-Terrin, M., Perronnel, J., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Pulvirenti, S., Quéméner, G., Quiroz, C., Rahaman, U., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanov, A., Roscilli, L., Saina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santonastaso, C., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schneider, M. F., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sennan, N., Setter, B., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Smirnov, M. V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tedjditi, H., Thiersen, H., Melo, I. Tosta e, Trocme, B., Tsagkli, S., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Vacheret, A., Valsecchi, V., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Verilhac, C., Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Warnhofer, H., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yousfi, T., Zarpapis, G., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The Cherenkov Telescope Array and the KM3NeT neutrino telescopes are major upcoming facilities in the fields of $\gamma$-ray and neutrino astronomy, respectively. Possible simultaneous production of $\gamma$ rays and neutrinos in astrophysical accelerators of cosmic-ray nuclei motivates a combination of their data. We assess the potential of a combined analysis of CTA and KM3NeT data to determine the contribution of hadronic emission processes in known Galactic $\gamma$-ray emitters, comparing this result to the cases of two separate analyses. In doing so, we demonstrate the capability of Gammapy, an open-source software package for the analysis of $\gamma$-ray data, to also process data from neutrino telescopes. For a selection of prototypical $\gamma$-ray sources within our Galaxy, we obtain models for primary proton and electron spectra in the hadronic and leptonic emission scenario, respectively, by fitting published $\gamma$-ray spectra. Using these models and instrument response functions for both detectors, we employ the Gammapy package to generate pseudo data sets, where we assume 200 hours of CTA observations and 10 years of KM3NeT detector operation. We then apply a three-dimensional binned likelihood analysis to these data sets, separately for each instrument and jointly for both. We find that the largest benefit of the combined analysis lies in the possibility of a consistent modelling of the $\gamma$-ray and neutrino emission. Assuming a purely leptonic scenario as input, we obtain, for the most favourable source, an average expected 68% credible interval that constrains the contribution of hadronic processes to the observed $\gamma$-ray emission to below 15%., Comment: 20 pages, 16 figures. v2: Matches version published in EPJC
Published: 2023
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16. Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA

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

Author: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androutsou, E., Anghinolfi, M., Anguita, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardačová, Z., Baret, B., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Benoit, D. M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., van Beveren, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozzaa, C., Bozza, R. M., Brânzaşa, H., Bretaudeau, F., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buisa, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldia, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Ceris, L., Chabab, M., Chadolia, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruza, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., Darrasa, Y., De Beneditti, A., De Martino, B., Decoene, V., Del Burgo, R., Di Mauro, L. S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domia, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörra, M., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Dvornický, R., Eberla, T., Eckerov\', E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Effa, M., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Fusco, L. A., Gabella, O., Gabriela, J., Gagliardini, S., Gala, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B. K., Giorgio, E., Girardi, A., Goos, I., Goupilliere, D., Gozzinic, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guidia, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Huang, F., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., Jamesa, C. W., Jansweijer, P., de Jongat, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, Khatun, A., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadzea, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Clark, M. Lindsey, Longhitano, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Mańczakc, J., Manfred, A., Marconi, M., Margiott, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Marzaioli, F., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Miccichè, S., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Minutoli, S., Mitsou, M. L., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Morley-Wonga, C., Mosbruggera, A., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicola, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigha, B. Ó, Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukach, E., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvilia, G., Gomez, E. J. Pastor, Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Martínez, S. Peña, Perrin-Terrind, M., Perronnel, J., Pestela, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Pulvirenti, S., Quéméner, G., Quiroz, C., Rahaman, U., Randazzo, N., Razzaqueb, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanova, A., Saina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santonastaso, C., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Scarpetta, Y., Schnabel, J., Schneider, M. F., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Setter, B., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Smirnov, M. V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tedjditi, H., Thiersen, H., Melo, I. Tosta e, Trocme, B., Tsagkli, S., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Vacheret, A., Valsecchi, V., Vannoye, V. Van Elewyck G., Vasileiadisa, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Verilhac, C., Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Warnhofer, H., Wilmsb, J., de Wolf, E., Yepes-Ramirez, H., Zarpapis, G., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The KM3NeT Collaboration is building and operating two deep sea neutrino telescopes at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The telescopes consist of latices of photomultiplier tubes housed in pressure-resistant glass spheres, called digital optical modules and arranged in vertical detection units. The two main scientific goals are the determination of the neutrino mass ordering and the discovery and observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the Universe. Neutrinos are detected via the Cherenkov light, which is induced by charged particles originated in neutrino interactions. The photomultiplier tubes convert the Cherenkov light into electrical signals that are acquired and timestamped by the acquisition electronics. Each optical module houses the acquisition electronics for collecting and timestamping the photomultiplier signals with one nanosecond accuracy. Once finished, the two telescopes will have installed more than six thousand optical acquisition nodes, completing one of the more complex networks in the world in terms of operation and synchronization. The embedded software running in the acquisition nodes has been designed to provide a framework that will operate with different hardware versions and functionalities. The hardware will not be accessible once in operation, which complicates the embedded software architecture. The embedded software provides a set of tools to facilitate remote manageability of the deployed hardware, including safe reconfiguration of the firmware. This paper presents the architecture and the techniques, methods and implementation of the embedded software running in the acquisition nodes of the KM3NeT neutrino telescopes.
Published: 2023

18. Atmospheric muons measured with the KM3NeT detectors in comparison with updated numeric predictions

Author: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alshamsi, M., Alves Garre, S., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androutsou, E., Anguita, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Arsenic, A., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Badaracco, F., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardačová, Z., Baret, B., Bariego-Quintana, A., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Benoit, D. M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Bonanno, D., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R. M., Brânzaş, H., Bretaudeau, F., Breuhaus, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chadolias, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Condorelli, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., Darras, Y., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., Decoene, V., Del Burgo, R., Del Rosso, I., Mauro, L. S. Di, Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diaz, C., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Ducoin, J.-G., Dvornický, R., Eberl, T., Eckerová, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., El Bojaddaini, I., El Hedri, S., Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Franciotti, D., Fusco, L. A., Gagliardini, S., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B. K., Giorgio, E., Goos, I., Goswami, P., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., Haack, C., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., Joly, D., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Khatun, A., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kueviakoe, V., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Le Stum, S., Lehaut, G., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Longhitano, F., Magnani, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Mańczak, J., Manfreda, A., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Marzaioli, F., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Miccichè, S., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mitsou, M. L., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Moretti, G., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó., Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., Paesani, D., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Parisi, V., Pastor Gomez, E. J., Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pelegris, I., Peña Martínez, S., Perrin-Terrin, M., Perronnel, J., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Prado, J., Pulvirenti, S., Quiroz-Rangel, C. A., Rahaman, U., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanov, A., Šaina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanfilippo, S., Sanguineti, M., Santonastaso, C., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sennan, N., Setter, B., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Smirnov, M. V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Melo, I. Tosta e, Tragia, E., Trocmé, B., Tsourapis, V., Tudorache, A., Tzamariudaki, E., Vacheret, A., Melchor, A. Valer, Valsecchi, V., Elewyck, V. Van, Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yepes-Ramirez, H., Yvon, I., Zarpapis, G., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Published: 2024
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19. Search for neutrino counterparts to the gravitational wave sources from LIGO/Virgo O3 run with the ANTARES detector

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Becherini, Y., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carenini, F., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A. S. M., Díaz, A. F., De Martino, B., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Hedri, S. El, Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gagliardini, S., García, J., Oliver, C. Gatius, Gay, P., Geißelbrecht, N., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Haegel, L., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Lazo, A., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Stum, S. Le, Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Păun, A., Păvălaş, G. E., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Vannoye, G., Van Elewyck, V., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Since 2015 the LIGO and Virgo interferometers have detected gravitational waves from almost one hundred coalescences of compact objects (black holes and neutron stars). This article presents the results of a search performed with data from the ANTARES telescope to identify neutrino counterparts to the gravitational wave sources detected during the third LIGO/Virgo observing run and reported in the catalogues GWTC-2, GWTC-2.1, and GWTC-3. This search is sensitive to all-sky neutrinos of all flavours and of energies $>100$ GeV, thanks to the inclusion of both track-like events (mainly induced by $\nu_\mu$ charged-current interactions) and shower-like events (induced by other interaction types). Neutrinos are selected if they are detected within $\pm 500$ s from the GW merger and with a reconstructed direction compatible with its sky localisation. No significant excess is found for any of the 80 analysed GW events, and upper limits on the neutrino emission are derived. Using the information from the GW catalogues and assuming isotropic emission, upper limits on the total energy $E_{\rm tot, \nu}$ emitted as neutrinos of all flavours and on the ratio $f_\nu = E_{\rm tot, \nu}/E_{\rm GW}$ between neutrino and GW emissions are also computed. Finally, a stacked analysis of all the 72 binary black hole mergers (respectively the 7 neutron star - black hole merger candidates) has been performed to constrain the typical neutrino emission within this population, leading to the limits: $E_{\rm tot, \nu} < 4.0 \times 10^{53}$ erg and $f_\nu < 0.15$ (respectively, $E_{\rm tot, \nu} < 3.2 \times 10^{53}$ erg and $f_\nu < 0.88$) for $E^{-2}$ spectrum and isotropic emission. Other assumptions including softer spectra and non-isotropic scenarios have also been tested., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2023
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20. Probing invisible neutrino decay with KM3NeT-ORCA

Author: KM3NeT Collaboration, Aiello, S., Albert, A., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anguita, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Bailly-Salins, L., Baret, B., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Cabo, M. Bou, Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Castaldi, P., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chau, N., Chen, A., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., Darras, Y., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., Decoene, V., Del Burgo, R., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Eddyamoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Espinosa, V., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Fusco, L. A., Gabriel, J., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Garufi, F., Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Gialanella, L., Giorgio, E., Girardi, A., Goos, I., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guderian, D., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., Haegel, L., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Huang, F., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Janezashvili, D., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, Kistauri, G., van der Knaap, F., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Lakhal, A., Lamoureux, M., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Breton, R. Le, Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Liang, S., Clark, M. Lindsey, Longhitano, F., Maderer, L., Majumdar, J., Mańczak, J., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martìnez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Melis, K. W., Miccichè, S., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Mollo, C. M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Morley-Wong, C., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Musone, M. R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Papaleo, R., Gomez, E. J. Pastor, Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Martínez, S. Peña, Perrin-Terrin, M., Perronnel, J., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pisanti, O., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Pulvirenti, S., Quéméner, G., Rahaman, U., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Rea, I. C., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanov, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santonastaso, C., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Sathe, A., Schnabel, J., Schneider, M. F., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Smirnov, M. V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Tavzarashvili, K., Tayalati, Y., Tedjditi, H., Thakore, T., Thiersen, H., Tsagkli, S., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Warnhofer, H., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yepes-Ramirez, H., Yousfi, T., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: In the era of precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters, upcoming neutrino experiments will also be sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. KM3NeT/ORCA is a neutrino detector optimised for measuring atmospheric neutrinos from a few GeV to around 100 GeV. In this paper, the sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector to neutrino decay has been explored. A three-flavour neutrino oscillation scenario, where the third neutrino mass state $\nu_3$ decays into an invisible state, e.g. a sterile neutrino, is considered. We find that KM3NeT/ORCA would be sensitive to invisible neutrino decays with $1/\alpha_3=\tau_3/m_3 < 180$~$\mathrm{ps/eV}$ at $90\%$ confidence level, assuming true normal ordering. Finally, the impact of neutrino decay on the precision of KM3NeT/ORCA measurements for $\theta_{23}$, $\Delta m^2_{31}$ and mass ordering have been studied. No significant effect of neutrino decay on the sensitivity to these measurements has been found., Comment: 27 pages, 14 figures, bibliography updated, typos corrected
Published: 2023
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21. Hint for a TeV neutrino emission from the Galactic Ridge with ANTARES

Author: Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Becherini, Y., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carenini, F., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., De Martino, B., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Hedri, S. El, Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fasano, M., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gagliardini, S., García, J., Oliver, C. Gatius, Gay, P., Geißelbrecht, N., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Haegel, L., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Lazo, A., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Stum, S. Le, Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Neronov, A., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Păun, A., Păvălaş, G. E., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Saina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Savchenko, D., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Vannoye, G., Van Elewyck, V., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Interactions of cosmic ray protons, atomic nuclei, and electrons in the interstellar medium in the inner part of the Milky Way produce a $\gamma$-ray flux from the Galactic Ridge. If the $\gamma$-ray emission is dominated by proton and nuclei interactions, a neutrino flux comparable to the $\gamma$-ray flux is expected from the same sky region. Data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope are used to constrain the neutrino flux from the Galactic Ridge in the 1-100 TeV energy range. Neutrino events reconstructed both as tracks and showers are considered in the analysis and the selection is optimized for the search of an excess in the region $|l| < 30\deg$, $|b| < 2\deg$. The expected background in the search region is estimated using an off-zone region with similar sky coverage. Neutrino signal originating from a power-law spectrum with spectral index ranging from $\Gamma_\nu=1$ to $4$ is simulated in both channels. The observed energy distributions are fitted to constrain the neutrino emission from the Ridge. The energy distributions in the signal region are inconsistent with the background expectation at $\sim 96\%$ confidence level. The mild excess over the background is consistent with a neutrino flux with a power law with a spectral index $2.45^{+0.22}_{-0.34}$ and a flux normalization $dN_\nu/dE_\nu = 4.0^{+2.7}_{-2.0} \times 10^{-16} \text{GeV}^{-1} \text{cm}^{-2} \text{s}^{-1} \text{sr}^{-1}$ at 40 TeV reference energy. Such flux is consistent with the expected neutrino signal if the bulk of the observed $\gamma$-ray flux from the Galactic Ridge originates from interactions of cosmic ray protons and nuclei with a power-law spectrum extending well into the PeV energy range., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2022
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22. Review of the online analyses of multi-messenger alerts and electromagnetic transient events with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., De Martino, B., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fasano, M., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gagliardini, S., García, J., Gay, P., Geißelbrecht, N., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Haegel, L., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Stum, S. Le, Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Păun, A., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Saina, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: 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 look for neutrino candidates coincident with gamma-ray bursts detected by the Swift and Fermi satellites, highenergy neutrino events registered by IceCube, transient events from blazars monitored by HAWC, photon-neutrino coincidences by AMON notices and gravitational wave candidates observed by LIGO/Virgo. By requiring temporal coincidence, this approach increases the sensitivity and the significance of a potential discovery. Thanks to the good angular accuracy of neutrino candidates reconstructed with the ANTARES telescope, a coincident detection can also improve the positioning area of non-well localised triggers such as those detected by gravitational wave interferometers. This paper summarises the results of the follow-up performed by the ANTARES telescope between 01/2014 and 02/2022, which corresponds to the end of the data taking period., Comment: 21 pages, 10 figures, JCAP08 (2023) 072 (19 pp
Published: 2022

23. Search for Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidences Using HAWC and ANTARES Data

Author: Solares, H. A. Ayala, Coutu, S., Cowen, D., Fox, D. B., Grégoire, T., McBride, F., Mostafá, M., Murase, K., Wissel, S., Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., De Martino, B., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., García, J., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Stum, S. Le, Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Păaun, A., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Alvarez, C., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Babu, R., Belmont-Moreno, E., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Cotti, U., Chaparro-Amaro, O., Cotzomi, J., de León, S. Coutiño, De la Fuente, E., de León, C., Hernandez, R. Diaz, DuVernois, M. A., Durocher, M., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Engel, K., Espinoza, C., Fan, K. L., Alonso, M. Fernández, Fraija, N., García-González, J. A., Garfias, F., González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Huang, D., Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Joshi, V., Kaufmann, S., Lara, A., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Longinotti, A. L., Luis-Raya, G., Malone, K., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Morales-Soto, J. A., Moreno, E., Nayerhoda, A., Nellen, L., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Omodei, N., Peisker, A., Araujo, Y. Pérez, Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Rho, C. D., Rosa-González, D., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Salazar, H., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Smith, A. J., Son, Y., Springer, R. W., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Torres-Escobedo, R., Turner, R., Ureña-Mena, F., Varela, E., Wang, X., Whitaker, K., Willox, E., Zepeda, A., and Zhou, H.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: In the quest for high-energy neutrino sources, the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) has implemented a new search by combining data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory and the Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch (ANTARES) neutrino telescope. Using the same analysis strategy as in a previous detector combination of HAWC and IceCube data, we perform a search for coincidences in HAWC and ANTARES events that are below the threshold for sending public alerts in each individual detector. Data were collected between July 2015 and February 2020 with a livetime of 4.39 years. Over this time period, 3 coincident events with an estimated false-alarm rate of $< 1$ coincidence per year were found. This number is consistent with background expectations., Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
Published: 2022
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24. Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., De Martino, B., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., García, J., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Stum, S. Le, Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Păun, A., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: In this work, a search for nuclearites of strange quark matter by using nine years of ANTARES data taken in the period 2009-2017 is presented. The passage through matter of these particles is simulated %according to the model of de R\'{u}jula and Glashow taking into account a detailed description of the detector response to nuclearites and of the data acquisition conditions. A down-going flux of cosmic nuclearites with Galactic velocities ($\beta = 10^{-3}$) was considered for this study. The mass threshold for detecting these particles at the detector level is \mbox{ $4 \times 10^{13}$ GeV/c$^{2}$}. Upper limits on the nuclearite flux for masses up to $10^{17}$ GeV/c$^{2}$ at the level of $\sim 5 \times 10^{-17}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ sr$^{-1}$ are obtained. These are the first upper limits on nuclearites established with a neutrino telescope and the most stringent ever set for Galactic velocities., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2022
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25. Search for secluded dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Albert, A., Alves, S., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Branzas, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Diaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhoefer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Hoessl, J., Hofestaedt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Gualda, C. Lagunas, Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, LeStum, S., Lefevre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Martino, B., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. O, Paun, A., Pavalas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poire, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sala, F., Sanchez-Losa, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schuessler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zuniga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: Searches for dark matter (DM) have not provided any solid evidence for the existence of weakly interacting massive particles in the GeV-TeV mass range. Coincidentally, the scale of new physics is being pushed by collider searches well beyond the TeV domain. This situation strongly motivates the exploration of DM masses much larger than a TeV. Secluded scenarios contain a natural way around the unitarity bound on the DM mass, via the early matter domination induced by the mediator of its interactions with the Standard Model. High-energy neutrinos constitute one of the very few direct accesses to energy scales above a few TeV. An indirect search for secluded DM signals has been performed with the ANTARES neutrino telescope using data from 2007 to 2015. Upper limits on the DM annihilation cross section for DM masses up to 6 PeV are presented and discussed.
Published: 2022
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26. Differential Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA detector to a diffuse neutrino flux and to point-like source emission: Exploring the case of the Starburst Galaxies

Author: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androutsou, E., Anguita, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Badaracco, F., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardačová, Z., Baret, B., Bariego-Quintana, A., du Pree, S. Basegmez, Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Benoit, D.M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Bonanno, D., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R.M., H.Brânzaş, Bretaudeau, F., Breuhaus, M., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chadolias, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J.A.B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., Darras, Y., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., Decoene, V., Del Burgo, R., Del Rosso, I., Di Mauro, L.S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A.F., Diaz, C., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Dvornický, R., Eberl, T., Eckerová, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., El Bojaddaini, I., El Hedri, S., Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M.D., Filippini, F., Franciotti, D., Fusco, L.A., Gabriel, J., Gagliardini, S., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B.K., Giorgio, E., Goos, I., Goswami, P., Goupilliere, D., Gozzini, S.R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J.J., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B.J., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U.F., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kueviakoe, V., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Clark, M. Lindsey, Longhitano, F., Magnani, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Mańczak, J., Manfreda, A., Manzaneda, M., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J.A., Marzaioli, F., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Miccichè, S., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mitsou, M.L., Mollo, C.M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Morga, M., Moussa, A., Mateo, I. Mozun, Muller, R., Musone, M.R., Musumeci, M., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C.A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., Paesani, D., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Parisi, V., Gomez, E.J. Pastor, Păun, A.M., Păvălaş, G.E., Martínez, S. Peña, Perrin-Terrin, M., Perronnel, J., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Prado, J., Pulvirenti, S., Quéméner, G., Quiroz-Rangel, C.A., Rahaman, U., Randazzo, N., Randriatoamanana, R., Razzaque, S., Rea, I.C., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanov, A., Šaina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D.F.E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanfilippo, S., Sanguineti, M., Santonastaso, C., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schutte, H.M., Seneca, J., Sennan, N., Setter, B., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Smirnov, M.V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Tosta e Melo, I., Tragia, E., Trocmé, B., Tsourapis, V., Tudorache, A., Tzamariudaki, E., Vacheret, A., Melchor, A. Valer, Valsecchi, V., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., de Sola, F. Vazquez, Verilhac, C., Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yepes-Ramirez, H., Zarpapis, G., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J.D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Published: 2024
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27. Search for Magnetic Monopoles with ten years of the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, LeStum, S., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martino, B., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Păun, A., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: This work presents a new search for magnetic monopoles using data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope over a period of 10 years (January 2008 to December 2017). Compared to previous ANTARES searches, this analysis uses a run-by-run simulation strategy, with a larger exposure as well as a new simulation of magnetic monopoles taking into account the Kasama, Yang and Goldhaber model for their interaction cross-section with matter. No signal compatible with the passage of relativistic magnetic monopoles is observed, and upper limits on the flux of magnetic monopoles with $\beta$ = v/c $\geq$ 0.55, are presented. For ultra-relativistic magnetic monopoles the flux limit is $\sim$ 7$\times$$10^{-18}$ $\rm cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1}$., Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the Journal of High Energy Astrophysics
Published: 2022
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28. Search for solar atmospheric neutrinos with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, LeStum, S., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martino, B., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Păun, A., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos (SA$\nu$s) are produced by the interaction of cosmic rays with the solar medium. The detection of SA$\nu$s would provide useful information on the composition of primary cosmic rays as well as the solar density. These neutrinos represent an irreducible source of background for indirect searches for dark matter towards the Sun and the measurement of their flux would allow for a better assessment of the uncertainties related to these searches. In this paper we report on the analysis performed, based on an unbinned likelihood maximisation, to search for SA$\nu$s with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. After analysing the data collected over 11 years, no evidence for a solar atmospheric neutrino signal has been found. An upper limit at 90\% confidence level on the flux of solar atmospheric neutrinos has been obtained, equal to 7$\times$$10^{-11}$ [TeV$^{-1}$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$] at E$_\nu =$ 1 TeV for the reference cosmic ray model assumed., Comment: Sections renamed and reorganized as asked by the Journal
Published: 2022
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29. Search for Spatial Correlations of Neutrinos with Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Author: The ANTARES collaboration, Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. 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B., Kim, J. H., Kim, S. W., Kimura, Y., Kishigami, S., Kubota, Y., Kurisu, S., Kuzmin, V., Kuznetsov, M., Kwon, Y. J., Lee, K. H., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Machida, K., Matsumiya, H., Matsuyama, T., Matthews, J. N., Mayta, R., Minamino, M., Mukai, K., Myers, I., Nagataki, S., Nakai, K., Nakamura, R., Nakamura, T., Nakamura, Y., Nakazawa, A., Nishio, E., Nonaka, T., Oda, H., Ogio, S., Ohnishi, M., Ohoka, H., Oku, Y., Okuda, T., Omura, Y., Ono, M., Onogi, R., Oshima, A., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Potts, M., Pshirkov, M. S., Remington, J., Rodriguez, D. C., Rubtsov, G. I., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sahara, R., Saito, Y., Sakaki, N., Sako, T., Sakurai, N., Sano, K., Sato, K., Seki, T., Sekino, K., Shah, P. D., Shibasaki, Y., Shibata, F., Shibata, N., Shibata, T., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, H. S., Shinto, D., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Sone, N., Stokes, B. T., Stroman, T. A., Takagi, Y., Takahashi, Y., Takamura, M., Takeda, M., Takeishi, R., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Tanoue, Y., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsuda, R., Tsunesada, Y., Uchihori, Y., Udo, S., Uehama, T., Urban, F., Warren, D., Wong, T., Yamamoto, M., Yamazaki, K., Yashiro, K., Yoshida, F., Yoshioka, Y., Zhezher, Y., and Zundel, Z.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: For several decades, the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) has been an unsolved question of high-energy astrophysics. One approach for solving this puzzle is to correlate UHECRs with high-energy neutrinos, since neutrinos are a direct probe of hadronic interactions of cosmic rays and are not deflected by magnetic fields. In this paper, we present three different approaches for correlating the arrival directions of neutrinos with the arrival directions of UHECRs. The neutrino data is provided by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and ANTARES, while the UHECR data with energies above $\sim$50 EeV is provided by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array. All experiments provide increased statistics and improved reconstructions with respect to our previous results reported in 2015. The first analysis uses a high-statistics neutrino sample optimized for point-source searches to search for excesses of neutrinos clustering in the vicinity of UHECR directions. The second analysis searches for an excess of UHECRs in the direction of the highest-energy neutrinos. The third analysis searches for an excess of pairs of UHECRs and highest-energy neutrinos on different angular scales. None of the analyses has found a significant excess, and previously reported over-fluctuations are reduced in significance. Based on these results, we further constrain the neutrino flux spatially correlated with UHECRs., Comment: 39 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables; updated source files including xml authorlist
Published: 2022
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30. Search for non-standard neutrino interactions with 10 years of ANTARES data

Author: Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzas, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, LeStum, S., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martino, B., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Paun, A., Pavalas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Non-standard interactions of neutrinos arising in many theories beyond the Standard Model can significantly alter matter effects in atmospheric neutrino propagation through the Earth. In this paper, a search for deviations from the prediction of the standard 3-flavour atmospheric neutrino oscillations using the data taken by the ANTARES neutrino telescope is presented. Ten years of atmospheric neutrino data collected from 2007 to 2016, with reconstructed energies in the range from $\sim$16 GeV to $100$ GeV, have been analysed. A log-likelihood ratio test of the dimensionless coefficients $\varepsilon_{\mu\tau}$ and $\varepsilon_{\tau\tau} - \varepsilon_{\mu\mu}$ does not provide clear evidence of deviations from standard interactions. For normal neutrino mass ordering, the combined fit of both coefficients yields a value 1.7$\sigma$ away from the null result. However, the 68% and 95% confidence level intervals for $\varepsilon_{\mu\tau}$ and $\varepsilon_{\tau\tau} - \varepsilon_{\mu\mu}$, respectively, contain the null value. Best fit values, one standard deviation errors and bounds at the 90% confidence level for these coefficients are given for both normal and inverted mass orderings. The constraint on $\varepsilon_{\mu\tau}$ is among the most stringent to date and it further restrains the strength of possible non-standard interactions in the $\mu - \tau$ sector., Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2021

31. Implementation and first results of the KM3NeT real-time core-collapse supernova neutrino search

Author: KM3NeT Collaboration, Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anguita, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Baret, B., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Berbee, E., Berg, A. M. van den, Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Cabo, M. Bou, Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carretero, V., Castaldi, P., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, N., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Molla, M. Colomer, Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., De Martino, B., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Eddyamoui, A., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Hedri, S. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Espinosa, V., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Fusco, L. A., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Garufi, F., Gatelet, Y., Oliver, C. Gatius, Geißelbrecht, N., Gialanella, L., Giorgio, E., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grella, G., Guderian, D., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., Haefner, J., Hallmann, S., Hamdaoui, H., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Janezashvili, D., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, Kistauri, G., van der Knaap, F., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Breton, R. Le, Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Leonardi, O., Leone, F., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Clark, M. Lindsey, Lipreau, T., Alvarez, C. LLorens, Longhitano, F., Lopez-Coto, D., Maderer, L., Majumdar, J., Mańczak, J., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mastroianni, S., Melis, K. W., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miranda, L. S., Mollo, C. M., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, O'Sullivan, M., Organokov, M., Orlando, A., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Papaleo, R., P{ă}un, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Pisanti, O., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Probst, I., Pulvirenti, S., Quéméner, G., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Rovelli, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schneider, M. F., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Tingay, S., Tsagkli, S., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Tzanetatos, D., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., de Wasseige, G., Wilms, J., Wojaczyński, R., de Wolf, E., Yousfi, T., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The KM3NeT research infrastructure is under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. KM3NeT will study atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos with two multi-purpose neutrino detectors, ARCA and ORCA, primarily aimed at GeV-PeV neutrinos. Thanks to the multi-photomultiplier tube design of the digital optical modules, KM3NeT is capable of detecting the neutrino burst from a Galactic or near-Galactic core-collapse supernova. This potential is already exploitable with the first detection units deployed in the sea. This paper describes the real-time implementation of the supernova neutrino search, operating on the two KM3NeT detectors since the first months of 2019. A quasi-online astronomy analysis is introduced to study the time profile of the detected neutrinos for especially significant events. The mechanism of generation and distribution of alerts, as well as the integration into the SNEWS and SNEWS 2.0 global alert systems are described. The approach for the follow-up of external alerts with a search for a neutrino excess in the archival data is defined. Finally, an overview of the current detector capabilities and a report after the first two years of operation are given., Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2021
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32. Combined sensitivity of JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA to the neutrino mass ordering

Author: KM3NeT Collaboration, Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anguita, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Baret, B., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Berbee, E., Berg, A. M. van den, Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Cabo, M. Bou, Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carretero, V., Castaldi, P., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, N., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Molla, M. Colomer, Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., De Martino, B., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Eddyamoui, A., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Espinosa, V., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filipovic, M. D., Filippini, F., Fusco, L. A., Gal, T., Méndez, J. García, Soto, A. Garcia, Garufi, F., Gatelet, Y., Gatius, C., Geisselbrecht, N., Gialanella, L., Giorgio, E., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grella, G., Guderian, D., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., Haefner, J., Hallmann, S., Hamdaoui, H., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kalaczynski, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, Kistauri, G., van der Knaap, F., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Breton, R. Le, Stum, S. Le, Lehaut, G., Leonardi, O., Leone, F., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Clark, M. Lindsey, Lipreau, T., Alvarez, C. Llorens, Longhitano, F., Lopez-Coto, D., Lygda, A., Maderer, L., Majumdar, J., Mańczak, J., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mastroianni, S., Melis, K. W., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miranda, L. S., Mollo, C. M., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, O'Sullivan, M., Organokov, M., Orlando, A., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Papaleo, R., Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Pisanti, O., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Probst, I., Pulvirenti, S., Quéméner, G., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Rovelli, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schneider, M. F., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thiersen, H., Tingay, S., Tsagkli, S., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Tzanetatos, D., Van Elewyck, V., Vasileiadis, G., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., de Wasseige, G., Wilms, J., Wojaczyński, R., de Wolf, E., Yousfi, T., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Zywucka, N., members, JUNO Collaboration, Ahmad, S., de André, J. P. A. M., Baussan, E., Bordereau, C., Cabrera, A., Cerna, C., Donchenko, G., Doroshkevich, E. A., Dracos, M., Druillole, F., Jollet, C., Kalousis, L. N., Kampmann, P., Kouzakov, K., Lokhov, A., Lubsandorzhiev, B. K., Lubsandorzhiev, S. B., Meregaglia, A., Miramonti, L., Perrot, F., Rico, L. F. Piñeres, Popov, A., Rasheed, R., Settimo, M., Stankevich, K., Steiger, H., Stock, M. R., Studenikin, A., Triossi, A., Trzaska, W., Vialkov, M., Wonsak, B., Wurtz, J., and Yermia, F.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: This article presents the potential of a combined analysis of the JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA experiments to determine the neutrino mass ordering. This combination is particularly interesting as it significantly boosts the potential of either detector, beyond simply adding their neutrino mass ordering sensitivities, by removing a degeneracy in the determination of $\Delta m_{31}^2$ between the two experiments when assuming the wrong ordering. The study is based on the latest projected performances for JUNO, and on simulation tools using a full Monte Carlo approach to the KM3NeT/ORCA response with a careful assessment of its energy systematics. From this analysis, a $5\sigma$ determination of the neutrino mass ordering is expected after 6 years of joint data taking for any value of the oscillation parameters. This sensitivity would be achieved after only 2 years of joint data taking assuming the current global best-fit values for those parameters for normal ordering., Comment: 24 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2021
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33. Studying Bioluminescence Flashes with the ANTARES Deep Sea Neutrino Telescope

Author: Reeb, N., Hutschenreuter, S., Zehetner, P., Ensslin, T., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., Jong, M. d., Jong, P. d., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Abstract: We develop a novel technique to exploit the extensive data sets provided by underwater neutrino telescopes to gain information on bioluminescence in the deep sea. The passive nature of the telescopes gives us the unique opportunity to infer information on bioluminescent organisms without actively interfering with them. We propose a statistical method that allows us to reconstruct the light emission of individual organisms, as well as their location and movement. A mathematical model is built to describe the measurement process of underwater neutrino telescopes and the signal generation of the biological organisms. The Metric Gaussian Variational Inference algorithm is used to reconstruct the model parameters using photon counts recorded by the neutrino detectors. We apply this method to synthetic data sets and data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The telescope is located 40 km off the French coast and fixed to the sea floor at a depth of 2475 m. The runs with synthetic data reveal that we can reliably model the emitted bioluminescent flashes of the organisms. Furthermore, we find that the spatial resolution of the localization of light sources highly depends on the configuration of the telescope. Precise measurements of the efficiencies of the detectors and the attenuation length of the water are crucial to reconstruct the light emission. Finally, the application to ANTARES data reveals the first precise localizations of bioluminescent organisms using neutrino telescope data.
Published: 2021

34. Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA

Author: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anguita, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Baret, B., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Berbee, E., Berg, A. M. van den, Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boettcher, M., Cabo, M. Bou, Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Brânzaş, H., Bretaudeau, F., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carretero, V., Castaldi, P., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, N., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Mollac, M. Colomer, Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., De Martino, B., De Palma, M., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosan, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorr, M., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Eddyamoui, A., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsaesser, D., Enzenhofer, A., Espinosa, V., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filipovic, M. D., Filippini, F., Fusco, L. A., Gal, T., Mendez, J. Garcıa, Soto, A. Garcia, Garufi, F., Gatelet, Y., Geisselbrecht, N., Gialanella, L., Giorgio, E., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grella, G., Guderian, D., Guid, C., Gutierrez, M., Haefner, J., Hallmann, S., Hamdaoui, H., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Hofestadt, J., Huang, F., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kadler, M., Kalaczynski, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, Kistauri, G., van der Knaap, F., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Lara, G., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Breton, R. Le, Stum, S. Le, Leonardi, O., Leone, F., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Clark, M. Lindsey, Lipreau, T., Longhitano, F., Lopez-Coto, D., Lygda, A., Maderer, L., Mańczak, J., Mannheim, K., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mastroianni, S., Melis, K. W., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miranda, L. S., Mollo, C. M., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Nkosi, B., Fearraigh, B. Ó, O'Sullivan, M., Organokov, M., Orlando, A., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Papaleo, R., Pastore, C., Păun, A. M., ălaş, G. E. Păv, Pellegrino, C., Martínez, S. Peña, Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Pisanti, O., Poirè, C., Pontoriere, V., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Probst, I., Pühlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Rovelli, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schneider, M. F., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Tatone, F., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Thiersen, H., Tingay, S., Tsagkli, S., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Tzanetatos, D., Van Elewyck, V., Vasileiadis, G., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., de Wasseige, G., Wilms, J., Wojaczyński, R., de Wolf, E., Yousfi, T., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: KM3NeT/ORCA is a next-generation neutrino telescope optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillations studies. In this paper, the sensitivity of ORCA to the presence of a light sterile neutrino in a 3+1 model is presented. After three years of data taking, ORCA will be able to probe the active-sterile mixing angles $\theta_{14}$, $\theta_{24}$, $\theta_{34}$ and the effective angle $\theta_{\mu e}$, over a broad range of mass squared difference $\Delta m^2_{41} \sim [10^{-5}, 10]$ $\rm{eV}^2$, allowing to test the eV-mass sterile neutrino hypothesis as the origin of short baseline anomalies, as well as probing the hypothesis of a very light sterile neutrino, not yet constrained by cosmology. ORCA will be able to explore a relevant fraction of the parameter space not yet reached by present measurements.
Published: 2021

35. Embedded software of the KM3NeT central logic board

Author: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alves Garre, S., Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androutsou, E., Anghinolfi, M., Anguita, M., Aphecetche, L., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Atmani, H., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Bailly-Salins, L., Bardačová, Z., Baret, B., Basegmez du Pree, S., Becherini, Y., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Benhassi, M., Benoit, D.M., Berbee, E., Bertin, V., van Beveren, V., Biagi, S., Boettcher, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Bozza, R.M., Brânzaş, H., Bretaudeau, F., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carenini, F., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Castaldi, P., Cecchini, V., Celli, S., Cerisy, L., Chabab, M., Chadolias, M., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J.A.B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., Darras, Y., De Benedittis, A., De Martino, B., Decoene, V., Del Burgo, R., Di Mauro, L.S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A.F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drakopoulou, E., Drouhin, D., Dvornický, R., Eberl, T., Eckerová, E., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., Eff, M., van Eijk, D., El Bojaddaini, I., El Hedri, S., Enzenhöfer, A., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M.D., Filippini, F., Fusco, L.A., Gabella, O., Gabriel, J., Gagliardini, S., Gal, T., García Méndez, J., Garcia Soto, A., Gatius Oliver, C., Geißelbrecht, N., Ghaddari, H., Gialanella, L., Gibson, B.K., Giorgio, E., Girardi, A., Goos, I., Goupilliere, D., Gozzini, S.R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Guillon, B., Gutiérrez, M., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J.J., Huang, F., Idrissi Ibnsalih, W., Illuminati, G., James, C.W., Jansweijer, P., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B.J., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U.F., Khan Chowdhury, N.R., Khatun, A., Kistauri, G., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Kvatadze, R., Labalme, M., Lahmann, R., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Lazo, A., Le Stum, S., Lehaut, G., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Lindsey Clark, M., Longhitano, F., Majumdar, J., Malerba, L., Mamedov, F., Mańczak, J., Manfreda, A., Marconi, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J.A., Marzaioli, F., Mastrodicasa, M., Mastroianni, S., Miccichè, S., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Minutoli, S., Mitsou, M.L., Mollo, C.M., Morales-Gallegos, L., Morley-Wong, C., Mosbrugger, A., Moussa, A., Mozun Mateo, I., Muller, R., Musone, M.R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nayerhoda, A., Nicolau, C.A., Nkosi, B., Ó Fearraigh, B., Oliviero, V., Orlando, A., Oukacha, E., Palacios González, J., Papalashvili, G., Pastor Gomez, E.J., Păun, A.M., Păvălaş, G.E., Peña Martínez, S., Perrin-Terrin, M., Perronnel, J., Pestel, V., Pestes, R., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Pulvirenti, S., Quéméner, G., Quiroz, C., Rahaman, U., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Rea, I.C., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Robinson, J., Romanov, A., Saina, A., Salesa Greus, F., Samtleben, D.F.E., Sánchez Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Santonastaso, C., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Scarpetta, Y., Schnabel, J., Schneider, M.F., Schumann, J., Schutte, H.M., Seneca, J., Setter, B., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Shitov, Y., Šimkovic, F., Simonelli, A., Sinopoulou, A., Smirnov, M.V., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Štekl, I., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tedjditi, H., Thiersen, H., Tosta e Melo, I., Trocme, B., Tsagkli, S., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Vacheret, A., Valsecchi, V., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., Vazquez de Sola, F., Verilhac, C., Veutro, A., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Warnhofer, H., Wilms, J., de Wolf, E., Yepes-Ramirez, H., Zarpapis, G., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J.D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Published: 2024
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36. The cosmic muon and detector simulation framework of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment

Author: Abbrescia, M., Avanzini, C., Baldini, L., Ferroli, R. Baldini, Batignani, G., Battaglieri, M., Boi, S., Bossin, E., Carnesecchi, F., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Coccetti, F., Coccia, E., Corvaglia, A., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., Fabbri, F., Fulci, A., Galante, L., Garbini, M., Gemme, G., Gnesi, I., Grazzi, S., Hatzifotiadou, D., La Rocca, P., Liu, Z., Mandaglio, G., Maron, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mulliri, A., Nania, R., Noferini, F., Nozzoli, F., Palmonari, F., Panareo, M., Panetta, M. P., Paoletti, R., Pellegrino, C., Pinazza, O., Pinto, C., Pisano, S., Riggi, F., Righini, G., Ripoli, C., Rizzi, M., Sartorelli, G., Scapparone, E., Schioppa, M., Scribano, A., Selvi, M., Serri, G., Squarcia, S, Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Trifirò, A., Trimarchi, M., Triolo, A. S., Vistoli, C., Votano, L., Ungaro, M., Williams, M. C. S., Zichichi, A., and Zuyeuski, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: This paper describes the simulation framework of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment. EEE is a network of cosmic muon trackers, each made of three Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC), able to precisely measure the absolute muon crossing time and the muon integrated angular flux at the ground level. The response of a single MRPC and the combination of three chambers have been implemented in a GEANT4-based framework (GEMC) to study the telescope response. The detector geometry, as well as details about the surrounding materials and the location of the telescopes have been included in the simulations in order to realistically reproduce the experimental set-up of each telescope. A model based on the latest parametrization of the cosmic muon flux has been used to generate single muon events. After validating the framework by comparing simulations to selected EEE telescope data, it has been used to determine detector parameters not accessible by analysing experimental data only, such as detection efficiency, angular and spatial resolution., Comment: 16 pages, 25 figures, 3 tables, submitted to EPJC
Published: 2021
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37. Search for neutrinos from the tidal disruption events AT2019dsg and AT2019fdr with the ANTARES telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., van Eeden, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., García, R., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: On October 1, 2019, the IceCube Collaboration detected a muon track neutrino with high probability of being of astrophysical origin, IC191001A. After a few hours, the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2019dsg, observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), was indicated as the most likely counterpart of the IceCube track. More recently, the follow-up campaign of the IceCube alerts by ZTF suggested a second TDE, AT2019fdr, as a promising counterpart of another IceCube muon track candidate, IC200530A, detected on May 30, 2020. These are the second and third associations between astrophysical sources and high-energy neutrinos after the compelling identification of the blazar TXS 0506+056. Here, the search for ANTARES neutrinos from the directions of AT2019dsg and AT2019fdr using a time-integrated approach is presented. As no significant evidence for space clustering is found in the ANTARES data, upper limits on the one-flavour neutrino flux and fluence are set., Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure
Published: 2021
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38. Determining the Neutrino Mass Ordering and Oscillation Parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA

Author: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anguita, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Baret, B., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Berbee, E., Berg, A. M. van den, Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boettcher, M., Cabo, M. Bou, Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Carretero, V., Castaldi, P., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, N., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Molla, M. Colomer, Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., De Martino, B., De Palma, M., Di Marino, M., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Eddyamoui, A., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsaesser, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Espinosa, V., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filipovic, M. D., Filippini, F., Fusco, L. A., Gal, T., Soto, A. Garcia, Garufi, F., Gatelet, Y., Geisselbrecht, N., Gialanella, L., Giorgio, E., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grasso, D., Grella, G., Guderian, D., Guidi, C., Haefner, J., Hallmann, S., Hamdaoui, H., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kadler, M., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, Kistauri, G., van der Knaap, F., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Breton, R. Le, Stum, S. Le, Leonardi, O., Leone, F., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Clark, M. Lindsey, Lipreau, T., Longhitano, F., Lopez-Coto, D., Maderer, L., Mańczak, J., Mannheim, K., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mastroianni, S., Melis, K. W., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miranda, L. S., Mollo, C. M., Morganti, M., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Fearraigh, B. Ó, O'Sullivan, M., Organokov, M., Orlando, A., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Papaleo, R., Pastore, C., Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Pikounis, K., Pisanti, O., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Pühlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Rabyang, O., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Rovelli, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schneider, M. F., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tenllado, E., Thiersen, H., Tingay, S., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Tzanetatos, D., Van Elewyck, V., Vasileiadis, G., Versari, F., Vivolo, D., de Wasseige, G., Wilms, J., Wojaczyński, R., de Wolf, E., Yousfi, T., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The next generation of water Cherenkov neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea are under construction offshore France (KM3NeT/ORCA) and Sicily (KM3NeT/ARCA). The KM3NeT/ORCA detector features an energy detection threshold which allows to collect atmospheric neutrinos to study flavour oscillation. This paper reports the KM3NeT/ORCA sensitivity to this phenomenon. The event reconstruction, selection and classification are described. The sensitivity to determine the neutrino mass ordering was evaluated and found to be 4.4 $\sigma$ if the true ordering is normal and 2.3 $\sigma$ if inverted, after three years of data taking. The precision to measure $\Delta m^2_{32}$ and $\theta_{23}$ were also estimated and found to be $85\cdot10^{-6}$ eV$^2$ and $(^{+1.9}_{-3.1})^{\circ}$ for normal neutrino mass ordering and, $75\cdot10^{-6}$ eV$^2$ and $(^{+2.0}_{-7.0})^{\circ}$ for inverted ordering. Finally, a unitarity test of the leptonic mixing matrix by measuring the rate of tau neutrinos is described. Three years of data taking were found to be sufficient to exclude $\nu_{\tau}$ and $\bar{\nu}_{\tau}$ event rate variations larger than 20% at $3\sigma$ level., Comment: Accepted for publication at EPJ-C
Published: 2021
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39. The KM3NeT potential for the next core-collapse supernova observation with neutrinos

Author: KM3NeT Collaboration, Aiello, S., Albert, A., Garre, S. Alves, Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anguita, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Baret, B., Pree, S. Basegmez du, Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Berbee, E., Berg, A. M. van den, Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boettcher, M., Cabo, M. Bou, Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Capone, A., Carretero, V., Castaldi, P., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, N., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Molla, M. Colomer, Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., De Martino, B., De Palma, M., Di Marino, M., Di Palma, I., Dıaz, A. F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dörr, M., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Eddyamoui, A., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Bojaddaini, I. El, Elsaesser, D., Enzenhöfer, A., Espinosa, V., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filipović, M. D., Filippini, F., Fusco, L. A., Gabella, O., Gal, T., Soto, A. Garcia, Garufi, F., Gatelet, Y., Geißelbrecht, N., Gialanella, L., Giorgio, E., Gozzini, S. R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grasso, D., Grella, G., Guderian, D., Guidi, C., Haefner, J., Hamdaoui, H., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B. J., Kadler, M., Kalaczyński, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U. F., Chowdhury, N. R. Khan, Kistauri, G., van der Knaap, F., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kreter, M., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Larosa, G., Breton, R. Le, Stum, S. Le, Leonardi, O., Leone, F., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Clark, M. Lindsey, Lipreau, T., Longhitano, F., Lopez-Coto, D., Maderer, L., Mańczak, J., Mannheim, K., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martınez-Mora, J. A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mastroianni, S., Mazzou, S., Melis, K. W., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miranda, L. S., Mollo, C. M., Morganti, M., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nicolau, C. A., Fearraigh, B. Ó, O'Sullivan, M., Organokov, M., Orlando, A., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Papaleo, R., Passaro, G., Pastore, C., Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Pikounis, K., Pisanti, O., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Pühlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Rabyang, O., Raffaelli, F., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Rivoire, S., Romanov, A., Rovelli, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schneider, M. F., Schumann, J., Schutte, H. M., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Simeone, F., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Stellacci, S. M., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Tenllado, E., Thakore, T., Thiersen, H., Tingay, S., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Tzanetatos, D., Unbehaun, T., Van Elewyck, V., Vannoye, G., Vasileiadis, G., Vermariën, G., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., de Wasseige, G., Wilms, J., Wojaczyński, R., de Wolf, E., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., and Zywucka, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: 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 large volume of sea water with $\sim$ 6,200 optical modules comprising a total of $\sim$ 200,000 photomultiplier tubes, KM3NeT will achieve sensitivity to $\sim$ 10 MeV neutrinos from Galactic and near-Galactic core-collapse supernovae through the observation of coincident hits in photomultipliers above the background. In this paper, the sensitivity of KM3NeT to a supernova explosion is estimated from detailed analyses of background data from the first KM3NeT detection units and simulations of the neutrino signal. The KM3NeT observational horizon (for a $5\,\sigma$ discovery) covers essentially the Milky-Way and for the most optimistic model, extends to the Small Magellanic Cloud ($\sim$ 60 kpc). Detailed studies of the time profile of the neutrino signal allow assessment of the KM3NeT capability to determine the arrival time of the neutrino burst with a few milliseconds precision for sources up to 5$-$8 kpc away, and detecting the peculiar signature of the standing accretion shock instability if the core-collapse supernova explosion happens closer than 3$-$5 kpc, depending on the progenitor mass. KM3NeT's capability to measure the neutrino flux spectral parameters is also presented., Comment: submitted to EPJC
Published: 2021
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40. Measurement of the atmospheric $\nu_e$ and $\nu_\mu$ energy spectra with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bendahman, M., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., García, R., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nunez-Castineyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Pă, G. E., vă, laş, Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schumann, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúniga, J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: This letter presents a combined measurement of the energy spectra of atmospheric $\nu_e$ and $\nu_\mu$ in the energy range between $\sim$100 GeV and $\sim$50 TeV with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The analysis uses 3012 days of detector livetime in the period 2007--2017, and selects 1016 neutrinos interacting in (or close to) the instrumented volume of the detector, yielding shower-like events (mainly from $\nu_e+\overline \nu_e$ charged current plus all neutrino neutral current interactions) and starting track events (mainly from $\nu_\mu + \overline \nu_\mu$ charged current interactions). The contamination by atmospheric muons in the final sample is suppressed at the level of a few per mill by different steps in the selection analysis, including a Boosted Decision Tree classifier. The distribution of reconstructed events is unfolded in terms of electron and muon neutrino fluxes. The derived energy spectra are compared with previous measurements that, above 100 GeV, are limited to experiments in polar ice and, for $\nu_\mu$, to Super-Kamiokande., Comment: Accepted to PLB
Published: 2021
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41. ANTARES search for point-sources of neutrinos using astrophysical catalogs: a likelihood stacking analysis

Author: Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Branzas, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Diaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N., Enzenhofer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gatelet, Y., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Hössl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., Jong, M., Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Mazzou, S., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nunez-Castineyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Palavas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Greus, F., Samtleben, D. F., Sanchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schussler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., Zuniga, J., and Buson, S.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: A search for astrophysical point-like neutrino sources using the data collected by the ANTARES detector between January 29, 2007 and December 31, 2017 is presented. A likelihood stacking method is used to assess the significance of an excess of muon neutrinos inducing track-like events in correlation with the location of a list of possible sources. Different sets of objects are tested in the analysis: a) a sub-sample of the \textit{Fermi} 3LAC catalog of blazars, b) a jet-obscured AGN population, c) a sample of soft gamma-ray selected radio galaxies, d) a star-forming galaxy catalog , and e) a public sample of 56 very-high-energy track events from the IceCube experiment. None of the tested sources shows a significant association with the sample of neutrinos detected by ANTARES. The smallest p-value is obtained for the radio galaxies catalog with an equal weights hypothesis, with a pre-trial p-value equivalent to a $2.8 \, \sigma$ excess, equivalent to $1.6 \, \sigma$ post-trial. In addition, the results of a dedicated analysis for the blazar MG3 J225517+2409 are also reported: this source is found to be the most significant within the \textit{Fermi} 3LAC sample, with 5 ANTARES events located at less than one degree from the source. This blazar showed evidence of flaring activity in \textit{Fermi} data, in space-time coincidence with a high-energy track detected by IceCube. An \emph{a posteriori} significance of $2.0\, \sigma$ for the combination of ANTARES and IceCube data is reported.
Published: 2020
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42. ANTARES upper limits on the multi-TeV neutrino emission from the GRBs detected by IACTs

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., García, R., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maderer, L., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mazzou, S., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nuñez-Castiñeyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The first gamma-ray burst detections by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have been recently announced: GRB 190114C, detected by MAGIC, GRB 180720B and GRB 190829A, observed by H.E.S.S. A dedicated search for neutrinos in space and time coincidence with the gamma-ray emission observed by IACTs has been performed using ANTARES data. The search covers both the prompt and afterglow phases, yielding no neutrinos in coincidence with the three GRBs studied. Upper limits on the energetics of the neutrino emission are inferred. The resulting upper limits are several orders of magnitude above the observed gamma-ray emission, and they do not allow to constrain the available models., Comment: accepted for publication in JCAP
Published: 2020
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43. Monte Carlo simulations for the ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope

Author: The ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Branzas, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Cecchini, S., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Diaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhofer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernandez-Rey, J. J., Hossl, J., Hofestadt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefevre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martinez-Mora, J. A., Mazzou, S., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nunez-Castineyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Pavalas, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Salesa, F., Sanchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schussler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Strandberg, B., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zuniga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Monte Carlo simulations are a unique tool to check the response of a detector and to monitor its performance. For a deep-sea neutrino telescope, the variability of the environmental conditions that can affect the behaviour of the data acquisition system must be considered, in addition to a reliable description of the active parts of the detector and of the features of physics events, in order to produce a realistic set of simulated events. In this paper, the software tools used to produce neutrino and cosmic ray signatures in the telescope and the strategy developed to represent the time evolution of the natural environment and of the detector efficiency are described., Comment: 24 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2020
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44. Constraining the contribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts to the high-energy diffuse neutrino flux with 10 years of ANTARES data

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eber, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mazzou, S., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nuñez-Castiñeyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabe, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Strandberg, B., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Addressing the origin of the astrophysical neutrino flux observed by IceCube is of paramount importance. Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the few astrophysical sources capable of achieving the required energy to contribute to such neutrino flux through p$\gamma$ interactions. In this work, ANTARES data have been used to search for upward going muon neutrinos in spatial and temporal coincidence with 784 GRBs occurred from 2007 to 2017. For each GRB, the expected neutrino flux has been calculated in the framework of the internal shock model and the impact of the lack of knowledge on the majority of source redshifts and on other intrinsic parameters of the emission mechanism has been quantified. It is found that the model parameters that set the radial distance where shock collisions occur have the largest impact on neutrino flux expectations. In particular, the bulk Lorentz factor of the source ejecta and the minimum variability timescale are found to contribute significantly to the GRB-neutrino flux uncertainty. For the selected sources, ANTARES data have been analysed, by maximising the discovery probability of the stacking sample through an extended maximum-likelihood strategy. Since no neutrino event passed the quality cuts set by the optimisation procedure, 90\% confidence level upper limits (with their uncertainty) on the total expected diffuse neutrino flux have been derived, according to the model. The GRB contribution to the observed diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux around 100 TeV is constrained to be less than 10\%., Comment: Accepted to MNRAS
Published: 2020
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45. Observation of the cosmic ray shadow of the Sun with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma1, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer-Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., de Wasseige, G., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eber, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nielsen, C., Nuñez-Castiñeyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Sánchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schnabe, J., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Strandberg, B., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., and Zúñiga, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The ANTARES detector is an undersea neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. The search for point-like neutrino sources is one of the main goals of the ANTARES telescope, requiring a reliable method to evaluate the detector angular resolution and pointing accuracy. This work describes the study of the Sun "shadow" effect with the ANTARES detector. The shadow is the deficit in the atmospheric muon flux in the direction of the Sun caused by the absorption of the primary cosmic rays. This analysis is based on the data collected between 2008 and 2017 by the ANTARES telescope. The observed statistical significance of the Sun shadow detection is $3.7\sigma$, with an estimated angular resolution of $0.59^\circ\pm0.10^\circ$ for downward-going muons. The pointing accuracy is found to be consistent with the expectations and no evidence of systematic pointing shifts is observed., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2020
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46. Strategies to reduce the environmental impact in the MRPC array of the EEE experiment

Author: Panetta, M. P., Abbrescia, M., Avanzini, C., Baldini, L., Ferroli, R. Baldini, Batignani, G., Battaglieri, M., Boi, S., Bossini, E., Carnesecchi, F., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Coccetti, F., Coccia, E., Corvaglia, A., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., Fabbri, F., Falchieri, D., Galante, L., Garbini, M., Gemme, G., Gnesi, I., Grazzi, S., Hatzifotiadou, D., La Rocca, P., Liu, Z., Lombardo, L., Mandaglio, G., Maron, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mulliri, A., Nania, R., Noferini, F., Nozzoli, F., Palmonari, F., Panareo, M., Paoletti, R., Parvis, M., Pellegrino, C., Perasso, L., Pinazza, O., Pinto, C., Pisano, S., Riggi, F., Righini, G., Ripoli, C., Rizzi, M., Sartorelli, G., Scapparone, E., Schioppa, M., Scribano, A., Selvi, M., Serri, G., Squarcia, S., Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Trifirò, A., Trimarchi, M., Vistoli, C., Votano, L., Williams, M. C. S., Zichichi, A., and Zuyeuski, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project employs Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) for studying the secondary cosmic ray muons in Extensive Air Showers. The array consists of about 60 tracking detectors, sparse on Italian territory and at CERN. The MRPCs are flowed with a gas mixture based on $C_2H_2F_4$ and $SF_6$, both of which are fluorinated greenhouse gases with a high environmental impact on the atmosphere. Due to the restrictions imposed by the European Union, these gases are being phased out of production and their cost is largely increasing. The EEE Collaboration started a campaign to reduce the gas emission from its array with the aim of containing costs and decreasing the experiment global warming impact. One method is to reduce the gas rate in each EEE detector. Another is to develop a gas recirculation system, whose a first prototype has been installed at one of the EEE stations located at CERN. Jointly a parallel strategy is focused on searching for environmental friendly gas mixtures which are able to substitute the standard mixture without affecting the MRPC performance. An overview and first results are presented here., Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2020

47. Characteristics and performance of the Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers of the EEE experiment

Author: Coccetti, F., Abbrescia, M., Avanzini, C., Baldini, L., Ferroli, R. Baldini, Batignani, G., Battaglieri, M., Boi, S., Bossini, E., Carnesecchi, F., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Coccia, E., Corvaglia, A., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., Fabbri, F., Falchieri, D., Galante, L., Garbini, M., Gemme, G., Gnesi, I., Grazzi, S., Hatzifotiadou, D., La Rocca, P., Liu, Z., Lombardo, L., Mandaglio, G., Maron, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mulliri, A., Nania, R., Noferini, F., Nozzoli, F., Palmonari, F., Panareo, M., Panetta, M. P., Paoletti, R., Parvis, M., Pellegrino, C., Perasso, L., Pinazza, O., Pinto, C., Pisano, S., Riggi, F., Righini, G., Ripoli, C., Rizzi, M., Sartorelli, G., Scapparone, E., Schioppa, M., Scribano, A., Selvi, M., Serri, G., Squarcia, S, Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Trifirò, A., Trimarchi, M., Vistoli, C., Votano, L., Williams, M. C. S., Zichichi, A., and Zuyeuski, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment, dedicated to the study of secondary cosmic rays, is arguably the largest detector system in the world implemented by Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers. The EEE network consists of 60 telescopes distributed over all the Italian territory; each telescope is made of three MRPCs and allows to reconstruct the trajectory of cosmic muons with high efficiency and optimal angular resolution. A distinctive feature of the EEE network is that almost all telescopes are housed in High Schools and managed by groups of students and teachers, who previously took care of their construction at CERN. This peculiarity is a big plus for the experiment, which combines the scientific relevance of its objectives with effective outreach activities. The unconventional location of the detectors, mainly in standard classrooms of school buildings, with heterogeneous maintenance conditions and without controlled temperature and dedicated power lines, is a unique test field to verify the robustness, the low aging characteristics and the long-lasting performance of MRPC technology for particle monitoring and timing. Finally, it is reported how the spatial resolution, efficiency, tracking capability and stability of these chambers behave in time., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2020
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48. A simulation tool for MRPC telescopes of the EEE project

Author: Mandaglio, G., Abbrescia, M., Avanzini, C., Baldini, L., Ferroli, R. Baldini, Batignani, G., Battaglieri, M., Boi, S., Bossin, E., Carnesecchi, F., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Coccetti, F., Coccia, E., Corvaglia, A., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., Fabbri, F., Fulci, A., Falchieri, D., Galante, L., Garbini, M., Gemme, G., Gnesi, I., Grazzi, S., Hatzifotiadou, D., La Rocca, P., Liu, Z., Lombardo, L., Maron, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mulliri, A., Nania, R., Noferini, F., Nozzoli, F., Palmonari, F., Panareo, M., Panetta, M. P., Paoletti, R., Parvis, M., Pellegrino, C., Perasso, L., Pinazza, O., Pinto, C., Pisano, S., Riggi, F., Righini, G., Ripoli, C., Rizzi, M., Sartorelli, G., Scapparone, E., Schioppa, M., Scribano, A., Selvi, M., Serri, G., Squarcia, S, Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Trifirò, A., Trimarchi, M., Triolo, A. S., Vistoli, C., Votano, L., Williams, M. C. S., Zichichi, A., and Zuyeuski, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project is mainly devoted to the study of the secondary cosmic ray radiation by using muon tracker telescopes made of three Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC) each. The experiment consists of a telescope network mainly distributed across Italy, hosted in different building structures pertaining to high schools, universities and research centers. Therefore, the possibility to take into account the effects of these structures on collected data is important for the large physics programme of the project. A simulation tool, based on GEANT4 and using GEMC framework, has been implemented to take into account the muon interaction with EEE telescopes and to estimate the effects on data of the structures surrounding the experimental apparata.A dedicated event generator producing realistic muon distributions, detailed geometry and microscopic behavior of MRPCs have been included to produce experimental-like data. The comparison between simulated and experimental data, and the estimation of detector resolutions is here presented and discussed.
Published: 2020
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49. MRPC Telescope Simulation for the Extreme Energy Events Experiment

Author: Mandaglio, G., Abbrescia, M., Avanzini, C., Baldini, L., Ferroli, R. Baldini, Batignani, G., Battaglieri, M., Boi, S., Bossini, E., Carnesecchi, F., Cicalò, C., Cifarelli, L., Coccetti, F., Coccia, E., Corvaglia, A., De Gruttola, D., De Pasquale, S., Fabbri, F., Fulci, A., Galante, L., Galeotti, P., Garbini, M., Gemme, G., Gnesi, I., Grazzi, S., Hatzifotiadou, D., La Rocca, P., Liu, Z., Maron, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mulliri, A., Nania, R., Noferini, F., Nozzoli, F., Palmonari, F., Panareo, M., Panetta, M. P., Paoletti, R., Pellegrino, C., Perasso, L., Pinto, C., Piragino, G., Pisano, S., Riggi, F., Righini, G., Ripoli, C., Rizzi, M., Sartorelli, G., Scapparone, E., Schioppa, M., Scribano, A., Selvi, M., Serri, G., Squarcia, S, Taiuti, M., Terreni, G., Trifirò, A., Trimarchi, M., Triolo, A. S., Vistoli, C., Votano, L., Williams, M. C. S., Zichichi, A., and Zuyeuski, R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: A simulation tool based on GEMC framework to describe the MRPC telescope of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project is presented. The EEE experiment is mainly devoted to the study of the secondary cosmic muons by using MRPC telescope distributed in high schools and research centres in Italy and at CERN. This takes into account the muon interactions with EEE telescopes and the structures surrounding the experimental apparata; it consists of a dedicated event generator producing realistic muon distribution and a detailed geometry description of the detector. Microscopic behaviour of MRPCs has been included to produce experimental-like data. A method to estimate the chamber effciency directly from data has been implemented and tested by comparing the experimental and simulated polar angle distribution of muons., Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure, International Workshop - Detection Systems and Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics - Messina (Italy), September 11-13, 2019. To be published in JP:CS
Published: 2020
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50. Combined search for neutrinos from dark matter self-annihilation in the Galactic Centre with ANTARES and IceCube

Author: ANTARES Collaboration, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Belhorma, B., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, T. N., Moursli, R. Cherkaoui El, Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coleiro, A., Colomer, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Khayati, N. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Ettahiri, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L., Gay, P., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Hallmann, S., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., James, C. W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jongen, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Khan-Chowdhury, N. R., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Breton, R. Le, Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lopez-Coto, D., Loucatos, S., Maggi, G., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Mele, R., Melis, K., Migliozzi, P., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Nielsen, C., Nuñez-Castiñeyra, A., O'Fearraigh, B., Organokov, M., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Sánchez-Losa, A., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Strandberg, B., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Tingay, S. J., Trovato, A., Vallage, B., Van Elewyck, V., Versari, F., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zaborov, D., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Collaboration, IceCube, Aartsen, M. G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Alispach, C., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Anton, G., Argüelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Bagherpour, H., Bai, X., V., A. Balagopal, Barbano, A., Barwick, S. W., Bastian, B., Baum, V., Baur, S., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Becker, K. -H., Tjus, J. Becker, BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Böser, S., Botner, O., Böttcher, J., Bourbeau, E., Bourbeau, J., Bradascio, F., Braun, J., Bron, S., Brostean-Kaiser, J., Burgman, A., Buscher, J., Busse, R. S., Carver, T., Chen, C., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Choi, S., Clark, B. A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coleman, A., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Coppin, P., Correa, P., Cowen, D. F., Cross, R., Dave, P., De Clercq, C., DeLaunay, J. J., Dembinski, H., Deoskar, K., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Diaz, A., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dujmovic, H., Dunkman, M., Dvorak, E., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eller, P., Engel, R., Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fox, D., Franckowiak, A., Friedman, E., Fritz, A., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Ganster, E., Garrappa, S., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Glauch, T., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Gonzalez, J. G., Grant, D., Grégoire, T., Griffith, Z., Griswold, S., Günder, M., Gündüz, M., Haack, C., Hallgren, A., Halliday, R., Halve, L., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Haungs, A., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Heix, P., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Henningsen, F., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Hoinka, T., Hokanson-Fasig, B., Hoshina, K., Huber, M., Huber, T., Hultqvist, K., Hünnefeld, M., Hussain, R., In, S., Iovine, N., Ishihara, A., Jansson, M., Japaridze, G. S., Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J. P., Jonske, F., Joppe, R., Kang, D., Kang, W., Kappes, A., Kappesser, D., Karg, T., Karl, M., Karle, A., Kauer, M., Kellermann, M., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kim, J., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. R., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Krückl, G., Kulacz, N., Kurahashi, N., Kyriacou, A., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larson, M. J., Lauber, F., Lazar, J. P., Leonard, K., Leszczyńska, A., Liu, Q. R., Lohfink, E., Mariscal, C. J. Lozano, Lu, L., Lucarelli, F., Ludwig, A., Lünemann, J., Luszczak, W., Lyu, Y., Ma, W. Y., Madsen, J., Mahn, K. B. M., Makino, Y., Mallik, P., Mallot, K., Mancina, S., Mariş, I. C., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Maunu, R., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Medina, A., Meier, M., Meighen-Berger, S., Merino, G., Meures, T., Micallef, J., Mockler, D., Momenté, G., Montaruli, T., Moore, R. W., Morse, R., Moulai, M., Muth, P., Nagai, R., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Nguyen, L. V., Niederhausen, H., Nisa, M. U., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Pollmann, A. Obertacke, Oehler, M., Olivas, A., O'Murchadha, A., O'Sullivan, E., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V., Park, N., Peiffer, P., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Philippen, S., Pieloth, D., Pieper, S., Pinat, E., Pizzuto, A., Plum, M., Porcelli, A., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Raab, C., Raissi, A., Rameez, M., Rauch, L., Rawlins, K., Rea, I. C., Rehman, A., Reimann, R., Relethford, B., Renschler, M., Renzi, G., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Cantu, D. Rysewyk, Safa, I., Herrera, S. E. Sanchez, Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Schaufel, M., Schieler, H., Schlunder, P., Schmidt, T., Schneider, A., Schneider, J., Schröder, F. G., Schumacher, L., Sclafani, S., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Shefali, S., Silva, M., Snihur, R., Soedingrekso, J., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stachurska, J., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stein, R., Stettner, J., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stö\s{s}l, A., Strotjohann, N. L., Stürwald, T., Stuttard, T., Sullivan, G. W., Taboada, I., Tenholt, F., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tilav, S., Tollefson, K., Tomankova, L., Tönnis, C., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Trettin, A., Tselengidou, M., Tung, C. F., Turcati, A., Turcotte, R., Turley, C. F., Ty, B., Unger, E., Elorrieta, M. A. Unland, Usner, M., Vandenbroucke, J., Van Driessche, W., van Eijk, D., van Eijndhoven, N., van Santen, J., Verpoest, S., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandkowsky, N., Watson, T. B., Weaver, C., Weindl, A., Weiss, M. J., Weldert, J., Wendt, C., Werthebach, J., Whelan, B. J., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wille, L., Williams, D. R., Wills, L., Wolf, M., Wood, J., Wood, T. R., Woschnagg, K., Wrede, G., Wulff, J., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Yuan, T., and Zöcklein, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the results of the first combined dark matter search targeting the Galactic Centre using the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. For dark matter particles with masses from 50 to 1000 GeV, the sensitivities on the self-annihilation cross section set by ANTARES and IceCube are comparable, making this mass range particularly interesting for a joint analysis. Dark matter self-annihilation through the $\tau^+\tau^-$, $\mu^+\mu^-$, $b\bar{b}$ and $W^+W^-$ channels is considered for both the Navarro-Frenk-White and Burkert halo profiles. In the combination of 2,101.6 days of ANTARES data and 1,007 days of IceCube data, no excess over the expected background is observed. Limits on the thermally-averaged dark matter annihilation cross section $\langle\sigma_A\upsilon\rangle$ are set. These limits present an improvement of up to a factor of two in the studied dark matter mass range with respect to the individual limits published by both collaborations. When considering dark matter particles with a mass of 200 GeV annihilating through the $\tau^+\tau^-$ channel, the value obtained for the limit is $7.44 \times 10^{-24} \text{cm}^{3}\text{s}^{-1}$ for the Navarro-Frenk-White halo profile. For the purpose of this joint analysis, the model parameters and the likelihood are unified, providing a benchmark for forthcoming dark matter searches performed by neutrino telescopes.
Published: 2020
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