Search for cosmic neutrinos from point-like sources with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
Creators
- 1. On behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration. Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" and INFN, Sezione di Roma, Roma (Italy)
Description
One of the main questions in Physics is the origin of high-energy cosmic rays. In the last decades great progress has been made related to their energy spectrum and composition but their origin remains uncertain. The observation of cosmic neutrinos can enlarge the information, as they can emerge from dense media and travel across cosmological distances without being deflected by magnetic fields nor absorbed by ambient matter and radiation. ANTARES is the first undersea neutrino telescope and the only one currently operating. Its location in the Northern Hemisphere allows for surveying a large part of the Galactic Plane, including the Galactic Centre, thus complementing the sky coverage of the IceCube detector installed at the South Pole. In this contribution the search for cosmic neutrino pointlike sources using six years of data is described, no signal has been found and upper limits on the flux normalization for an energy spectrum ∝ E−2ν have been set.
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuovo Cimento C. (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 39
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1-2
- ISSN
- 1826-9885
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- Italy
- INIS RN
- 48092435
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PEV RANGE; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TELESCOPE COUNTERS; TEV RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- EARTH PLANET; ENERGY RANGE; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOTUBES; PLANETS; RADIATION DETECTORS