A search for neutrino emission from the Fermi bubbles with the ANTARES telescope

Adrian-Martinez, S.; Ardid, M.; Larosa, G.; Martinez-Mora, J.A.; Albert, A.; Drouhin, D.; Racca, C.; Al Samarai, I.; Aubert, J.J.; Bertin, V.; Brunner, J.; Busto, J.; Carr, J.; Charif, Z.; Core, L.; Costantini, H.; Coyle, P.; Curtil, C.; Dornic, D.; Ernenwein, J.P.; Escoffier, S.; Lambard, E.; Riviere, C.; Vallee, C.; Vecchi, M.; Yatkin, K.; Andre, M.; Anton, G.; Classen, F.; Eberl, T.; Enzenhoefer, A.; Fehn, K.; Folger, F.; Fritsch, U.; Geisselsoeder, S.; Geyer, K.; Gleixner, A.; Graf, K.; Herold, B.; Hoessl, J.; James, C.W.; Kalekin, O.; Kappes, A.; Katz, U.; Lahmann, R.; Neff, M.; Richter, R.; Roensch, K.; Schmid, J.; Schnabel, J.; Seitz, T.; Shanidze, R.; Sieger, C.; Spies, A.; Wagner, S.; Anvar, S.; Louis, F.; Schuessler, F.; Stolarczyk, T.; Vallage, B.; Vernin, P.; Astraatmadja, T.; Bogazzi, C.; Heijboer, A.J.; Jong, M. de; Michael, T.; Palioselitis, D.; Schulte, S.; Steijger, J.J.M.; Visser, E.; Baret, B.; Bouhou, B.; Creusot, A.; Galata, S.; Kouchner, A.; Elewyck, V. van; Barrios-Marti, J.; Bigongiari, C.; Bouwhuis, M.C.; Emanuele, U.; Gomez-Gonzalez, J.P.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Lambard, G.; Mangano, S.; Sanchez-Losa, A.; Yepes, H.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuniga, J.; Basa, S.; Marcelin, M.; Nezri, E.; Biagi, S.; Fusco, L.A.; Giacomelli, G.; Margiotta, A.; Spurio, M.; Capone, A.; De Bonis, G.; Fermani, P.; Perrina, C.; Simeone, F.; Caramete, L.; Pavalas, G.E.; Popa, V.; Carloganu, C.; Dumas, A.; Gay, P.; Guillard, G.; Cecchini, S.; Chiarusi, T.; Charvis, P.; Deschamps, A.; Hello, Y.; Circella, M.; Coniglione, R.; Lattuada, D.; Riccobene, G.; Sapienza, P.; Trovato, A.; Dekeyser, I.; Lefevre, D.; Martini, S.; Robert, A.; Tamburini, C.; Donzaud, C.; Dorosti, Q.; Loehner, H.; Flaminio, V.; Giordano, V.; Haren, H. van; Hugon, C.; Sanguineti, M.; Kadler, M.; Kooijman, P.; Kreykenbohm, I.; Mueller, C.; Wilms, J.; Kulikovskiy, V.; Leonora, E.; Lo Presti, D.; Loucatos, S.; Montaruli, T.; Morganti, M.; Pradier, T.; Rostovtsev, A.; Samtleben, D.F.E.; Taiuti, M.; Tayalati, Y.; Wolf, E. de; The ANTARES Collaboration

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2701-6

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A search for neutrino emission from the Fermi bubbles with the ANTARES telescope

1. Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Institut d'Investigacio per a la Gestio Integrada de les Zones Costaneres (IGIC), Gandia (Spain)
2. GRPHE, Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Colmar, 34 rue du Grillenbreit, BP 50568, Colmar (France)
3. CPPM, Aix-Marseille Universite, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille (France)
4. Technical University of Catalonia, Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Vilanova i la Geltru, Barcelona (Spain)
5. Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erlangen (Germany)
6. Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'Univers, Service d'Electronique des Detecteurs et d'Informatique, CEA Saclay, Direction des Sciences de la Matiere, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex (France)
7. Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
8. APC, Universite Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/IRFU, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris (France)
9. Universitat de Valencia, IFIC, Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Edificios Investigacion de Paterna, CSIC, Valencia (Spain)
10. Pole de l'Etoile Site de Chateau-Gombert, LAM, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille Cedex 13 (France)
11. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita, Bologna (Italy)
12. INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
13. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita La Sapienza, Rome (Italy)
14. INFN, Sezione di Roma, Rome (Italy)
15. Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest, Magurele (Romania)
16. Clermont Universite, Universite Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, BP 10448, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
17. Geoazur, Universite Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS/INSU, IRD, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Sophia Antipolis (France)
18. INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari (Italy)
19. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS), Catania (Italy)
20. Universit du Sud Toulon-Var, CNRS-INSU/IRD UM 110, La Garde Cedex (France)
21. Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), Aix-Marseille University, Marseille Cedex 9 (France)
22. Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex (France)
23. University of Groningen, Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI), Groningen (Netherlands)
24. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita, Pisa (Italy)
25. INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa (Italy)
26. INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania (Italy)
27. Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), 't Horntje (Texel) (Netherlands)
28. INFN, Sezione di Genova, Genoa (Italy)
29. Universitaet Wuerzburg, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Wuerzburg (Germany)
30. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Instituut voor Hoge-Energie Fysica, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
31. Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Betawetenschappen, Utrecht (Netherlands)
32. Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte and ECAP, Bamberg (Germany)
33. Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation)
34. Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia dell'Universita, Catania (Italy)
35. Universite de Geneve, Departement de Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire, Geneva (Switzerland)
36. Universite de Strasbourg et CNRS/IN2P3, IPHC-Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, 23 rue du Loess, BP 28, Strasbourg Cedex 2 (France)
37. ITEP, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation)
38. Universiteit Leiden, Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in Natuurkunde, Leiden (Netherlands)
39. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita, Genoa (IT)
40. University Mohammed I, Laboratory of Physics of Matter and Radiations, B.P.717, Oujda (MA)
41. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Instituut voor Hoge-Energie Fysica, Amsterdam (NL)
42. Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam (NL)

Analysis of the Fermi-LAT data has revealed two extended structures above and below the Galactic Centre emitting gamma rays with a hard spectrum, the so-called Fermi bubbles. Hadronic models attempting to explain the origin of the Fermi bubbles predict the emission of high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays with similar fluxes. The ANTARES detector, a neutrino telescope located in the Mediterranean Sea, has a good visibility to the Fermi bubble regions. Using data collected from 2008 to 2011 no statistically significant excess of events is observed and therefore upper limits on the neutrino flux in TeV range from the Fermi bubbles are derived for various assumed energy cutoffs of the source. (orig.)

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Journal Title: European Physical Journal. C
Journal Volume: 74
Journal Issue: 2
Journal Page Range: p. 1-7
ISSN: 1434-6044

Country of Publication: Germany
Country of Input or Organization: Germany
INIS RN: 45049517
Subject category: S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI: BUBBLES; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; COSMIC RAY FLUX; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; ENERGY SPECTRA; FERMI GAS; TEV RANGE 01-10; TEV RANGE 100-1000; TEV RANGE 10-100
Descriptors DEC: COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINOS; RADIATION FLUX; RADIATIONS; SPECTRA; TEV RANGE

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