Abstract
The ANTARES detector is an underwater neutrino telescope, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere and the first one ever built under the sea, located in the Mediterranean Sea 40 km off the Southern coast of France, at a depth of 2.5 km. It comprises 885 photomultiplier tubes distributed along twelve detection lines. The signal due to neutrinos is searched by reconstructing the tracks of secondary particles produced in the surroundings of the detector. The detector is in data taking with its final configuration since 2008. It is aimed at identifying the sources, either steady or flaring, of cosmic neutrinos, and is also suitable for detection of dark matter within the Sun and/or Galactic Centre. ANTARES can contribute in the confirmation of the cosmic neutrino flux observed by IceCube, being particularly competitive for the Galactic Centre, and in general for galactic sources, due its latitude and at lower energies and softer spectra due its configuration. Several multi-messenger analyses have been also attempted, including the search of coincidence signals of neutrinos with gravitational-waves. Additional topics include neutrino oscillations or the search of exotic particles, like nuclearites and magnetic monopoles. Results from the latest analyses are presented.
Highlights
The ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope is located 40 km off the coast of Toulon, France and anchored to the seabed at a depth of 2.5 km
The Southern sky has been studied searching for point-like objects, for extended regions of emission and for signal from transient objects selected through multimessenger observations
Relevant are the searches for Dark Matter: the limits obtained for the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section overcome that of existing direct-detection experiments
Summary
The ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope is located 40 km off the coast of Toulon, France and anchored to the seabed at a depth of 2.5 km. It consists of an array of 885 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) of 10 inches covering an instrumented volume of approximately 0.01 km, and it is designed primarily to search for charged-current interactions of neutrinos with Eν > 100 GeV. Results from different analyses are reported here and in [1] These include several measurements which are used to constrain both pointlike
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