Measurement of the atmospheric electron and muon neutrino flux with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Abstract

This thesis presents a combined measurement of the energy spectra of atmospheric electron and muon neutrinos in the energy range between around 100 GeV and 50 TeV with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The analysis uses 3012 days of detector livetime in the period from 2007 to 2017, and selects 1016 neutrino interacting in (or close to) the instrumented volume of the detector, yielding shower-like events and starting track events. The contamination by atmospheric muons 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 and the derived energy spectra are compared with previous measurements.