Speaker
Alexandre Creusot
(APC, France)
Description
The ANTARES detector, located 40 km off the French coast, is the
largest deep-sea neutrino telescope in the Northern Hemisphere with an
instrumented volume of more than 0.01 cubic kilometers. The KM3NeT
telescope has been designed to be the next generation of deep-sea
telescope with an instrumented volume several hundred times
larger. Both of them consist of an array of optical modules detecting
the Cherenkov light induced by charged leptons produced by neutrino
interactions in and around the detector. The first optical detector of
KM3NeT has been deployed very recently on the ANTARES instrumentation
line and the first muons observed. The primary goal of such telescopes
is to search for astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range. This
comprises generic searches for any diffuse cosmic neutrino flux as
well as more specific searches for astrophysical sources such as
active galactic nuclei or Galactic sources. The search program also
includes multi-messenger analyses based on time and/or space
coincidences with other cosmic probes.
