Speaker
Salvatore Mangano
(ANTARES)
Description
The ANTARES neutrino telescope is located on the bottom of the
Mediterranean Sea, 40 km off the French coast. The detector is
installed at a depth of 2.5 km and consists of
a three-dimensional array of about 900 photomultipliers tubes
arranged on 12 detector lines. The ANTARES collaboration aims
to detect high-energy neutrinos from extraterrestrial origin.
Relativistic muons emerging from charged-current muon neutrino
interactions in the detector surroundings produce a cone of Cerenkov light
which allows us the reconstruction of the original neutrino direction.
The collaboration has implemented different methods to
search for neutrino point sources in the data collected since 2007.
Results obtained with these methods as well as the sensitivity of the
telescope will be presented.
Author
Salvatore Mangano
(ANTARES)
