32 Result(s)
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Open AccessFirst observation of the cosmic ray shadow of the Moon and the Sun with KM3NeT/ORCA
This article reports the first observation of the Moon and the Sun shadows in the sky distribution of cosmic-ray induced muons measured by the KM3NeT/ORCA detector. The analysed data-taking period spans from F...
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Open AccessProbing invisible neutrino decay with KM3NeT/ORCA
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 optimi...
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Open AccessSearch for non-standard neutrino interactions with 10 years of ANTARES data
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 f...
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Open AccessImplementation and first results of the KM3NeT real-time core-collapse supernova neutrino search
The KM3NeT research infrastructure is unconstruction in the Mediterranean Sea. KM3NeT will study atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos with two multi-purpose neutrino detectors, ARCA and ORCA, primarily aime...
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Open AccessCombined sensitivity of JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA to the neutrino mass ordering
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 boos...
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Open AccessDetermining the neutrino mass ordering and oscillation parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
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 de...
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Open AccessSensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
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...
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Open AccessThe KM3NeT potential for the next core-collapse supernova observation with neutrinos
The KM3NeT research infrastructure is under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of two water Cherenkov neutrino detectors, ARCA and ORCA, aimed at neutrino astrophysics and oscillation research,...
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Open AccessSearch for neutrino counterparts of gravitational-wave events detected by LIGO and Virgo during run O2 with the ANTARES telescope
An offline search for a neutrino counterpart to gravitational-wave (GW) events detected during the second observation run (O2) of Advanced-LIGO and Advanced-Virgo performed with ANTARES data is presented. In a...
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Open AccessDependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units
KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collaboration aims at identifying and ...
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Open AccessMeasuring the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters and constraining the 3+1 neutrino model with ten years of ANTARES data
The ANTARES neutrino telescope has an energy threshold of a few tens of GeV. This allows to study the phenomenon of atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance due to neutrino oscillations. In a similar way, const...
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Open AccessThe cosmic ray shadow of the Moon observed with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
One of the main objectives of the ANTARES telescope is the search for point-like neutrino sources. Both the pointing accuracy and the angular resolution of the detector are important in this context and a reli...
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Open AccessLong-term monitoring of the ANTARES optical module efficiencies using \(^{40}\mathrm{{K}}\) decays in sea water
Cherenkov light induced by radioactive decay products is one of the major sources of background light for deep-sea neutrino telescopes such as ANTARES. These decays are at the same time a powerful calibration ...
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Open AccessAll-sky search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW170104 with the Antares neutrino telescope
Advanced LIGO detected a significant gravitational wave signal (GW170104) originating from the coalescence of two black holes during the second observation run on January 4th, 2017. An all-sky high-energy neutrin...
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Open AccessSearch for relativistic magnetic monopoles with five years of the ANTARES detector data
A search for magnetic monopoles using five years of data recorded with the ANTARES neutrino telescope from January 2008 to December 2012 with a total live time of 1121 days is presented. The analysis is carrie...
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Open AccessAn algorithm for the reconstruction of high-energy neutrino-induced particle showers and its application to the ANTARES neutrino telescope
A novel algorithm to reconstruct neutrino-induced particle showers within the ANTARES neutrino telescope is presented. The method achieves a median angular resolution of
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Open AccessIntrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector
Studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the few-GeV range with a multi-megaton detector promises to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is the main science goal pursued by the future KM3NeT/ORCA ...
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Open AccessStacked search for time shifted high energy neutrinos from gamma ray bursts with the Antares neutrino telescope
A search for high-energy neutrino emission correlated with gamma-ray bursts outside the electromagnetic prompt-emission time window is presented. Using a stacking approach of the time delays between reported g...
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Open AccessLong term monitoring of the optical background in the Capo Passero deep-sea site with the NEMO tower prototype
The NEMO Phase-2 tower is the first detector which was operated underwater for more than 1 year at the “record” depth of 3500 m. It was designed and built within the framework of the NEMO (NEutrino Mediterrane...
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Open AccessThe prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT detector
A prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT deep-sea neutrino telescope has been installed at 3500m depth 80 km offshore the Italian coast. KM3NeT in its final configuration will contain several hundreds of detec...
