Speaker
Dr
Daniele VIVOLO
(INFN Napoli)
Description
The ANTARES experiment has been running in its final configuration since 2008. It is the largest
neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere. After the discovery of a cosmic neutrino diffuse flux
by the IceCube detector, the search for its origin has become a key mission in high-energy
astrophysics. Particularly interesting is the indication (although not significant with the present
IceCube statistics) of an excess of signal events from the Southern sky region.
The ANTARES sensitivity is large enough to constrain the origin of the IceCube excess from regions
extended up to 0.2 sr in the Southern sky. Assuming different spectral indexes for the energy
spectrum of neutrino emitters, the Southern sky and in particular central regions of our Galaxy are
studied searching for point-like objects and for extended regions of emission.
The search program also includes multi-messenger analyses requiring time and/or space coincidences with other cosmic probes (cosmic rays, gamma rays or gravitational waves).
ANTARES has also provided results on atmospheric neutrinos and searches for rare particles (such as
magnetic monopoles and nuclearites in the cosmic radiation). Of particular note are the
searches for Dark Matter: the limits obtained for the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section
overcome that of existing direct-detection experiments.
| Collaboration | ANTARES Collaboration |
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Primary author
Dr
Daniele VIVOLO
(INFN Napoli)
Co-author
Dr
Thierry PRADIER
(IPHC & University of Strasbourg)
