Within the activities of the NEMO project, the installation of a 8-floors tower (NEMO-Phase II) at a depth of 3500 m is foreseen in 2012. The tower will be installed about 80 km off-shore Capo Passero, in Sicily. On board ...
An innovative Acoustic Positioning System for the km(3)-scale neutrino telescope has been designed and is under realization within the KM3NeT Consortium. Compared to the Acoustic Positioning Systems used for the km(3) ...
[EN] Calibration of acoustic neutrino telescopes with neutrino-like signals is essential to evaluate the feasibility of the technique and to know the efficiency of the detectors. However, it is not straightforward to have ...
Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Camarena Femenia, Francisco; Espinosa Roselló, Víctor; Larosa, Giuseppina; Llorens Alvarez, Carlos David; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio(Elsevier, 2011-01-11)
[EN] In this paper we present a possible solution for the acoustic positioning system of KM3NeT, a future very large undersea neutrino telescope. The system consists of an array of budget-priced acoustic transducers that ...
Adrián Martínez, Silvia; Al Samarai, I.; Albert, A.; Andre, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G.; Anvar, S.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Astraatmadja, T.; Aubert, J.J.; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Camarena Femenia, Francisco; Ferri García, Marcelino; Larosa, Giuseppina; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio(American Astronomical Society, 2013-09)
A multimessenger analysis optimized for a correlation of arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and neutrinos is presented and applied to 2190 neutrino candidate events detected in 2007 2008 by the ...
Aguilar, J. A.; Al Samarai, I.; Albert, A.; André, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G.; Anvar, S.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Assis Jesus, A.C.; Astraatmadja, T.; Aubert, J-J.; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Camarena Femenia, Francisco; Larosa, Giuseppina; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2011)
[EN] A search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos, using data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope is presented. A (0.83×2¿) sr sky was monitored for a total of 334 days of equivalent live time. The ...
Adrián Martínez, Silvia; Al Samarai, I.; Albert, A.; André, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Antón, G; Anvar, S.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Astraatmadja, T.; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Ferri García, Marcelino; Larosa, Giuseppina; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio(American Astronomical Society, 2012-11)
In this paper, a time-integrated search for point sources of cosmic neutrinos is presented using the data collected from 2007 to 2010 by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. No statistically significant signal has been found ...
Adrián Martínez, Silvia; Albert, A.; Al Samarai, I.; André, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G.; Anvar, S.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Astraatmadja, T.; Aubert, J.J.; Baret, B.; Barrios Martí, J.; Basa, S.; Larosa, Giuseppina; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio(EDP Sciences, 2013-11)
Aims. We search for muon neutrinos in coincidence with GRBs with the ANTARES neutrino detector using data from the end of 2007 to 2011.
Methods. Expected neutrino fluxes were calculated for each burst individually. The ...
Adrián Martínez, Silvia; Al Samarai, I; Albert, A.; André, M; Anghinolfi, M; Anton, G; Anvar, S; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Astraatmadja, T.; Aubert, J-J; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Camarena Femenia, Francisco; Ferri García, Marcelino; Larosa, Giuseppina; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio(Elsevier, 2012-08)
The ANTARES telescope is well-suited to detect neutrinos produced in astrophysical transient sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all times with a high duty cycle. Radio-loud active galactic nuclei ...
Adrián Martínez, Silvia; Aguilar, JA; Al Samarai, I; Albert, A; Andre, M; Anghinolfi, M; Anton, G; Anvar, S; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Camarena Femenia, Francisco; Ferri García, Marcelino; Larosa, Giuseppina; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio(Elsevier, 2012-05)
Magnetic monopoles are predicted in various unified gauge models and could be produced at intermediate mass scales. Their detection in a neutrino telescope is facilitated by the large amount of light emitted compared to ...
Ageron, M; Aguilar, JA; Al Samarai, I; Albert, A; Andre, M; Anghinolfi, M; Anton, G; Anvar, S; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Camarena Femenia, Francisco; Ferri García, Marcelino; Larosa, Giuseppina; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio(Elsevier, 2012-03)
The ANTARES telescope has the capability to detect neutrinos produced in astrophysical transient sources. Potential sources include gamma-ray bursts, core collapse supernovae, and flaring active galactic nuclei. To enhance ...
Adrián Martínez, Silvia; Ageron, M.; Aguilar, J. A.; Al Samarai, I.; Albert, A.; Andre, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G.; Anvar, S.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Camarena Femenia, Francisco; Ferri García, Marcelino; Larosa, Giuseppina; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio(Institute of Physics: Hybrid Open Access, 2012-08)
The ANTARES neutrino telescope, located 40km off the coast of Toulon in the Mediterranean Sea at a mooring depth of about 2475m, consists of twelve detection lines equipped typically with 25 storeys. Every storey carries ...
Llorens Alvarez, Carlos David; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Sogorb Devesa, Tomás Carlos; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio; Larosa, Giuseppina; Adrián Martínez, Silvia(Institute of Physics: Hybrid Open Access, 2012-01)
[EN] We describe the sound emission board proposed for installation in the acoustic positioning system of the future KM3NeT underwater neutrino telescope. The KM3NeT European consortium aims to build a multi-cubic kilometre ...
Aguilar, J.A; Al Samarai, I; Albert, A.; André, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G; Anvar, S.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Camarena Femenia, Francisco; Larosa, Giuseppina; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio(Elsevier, 2011-02)
The ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope comprises a three-dimensional array of photomultipliers to detect the Cherenkov light induced by upgoing relativistic charged particles originating from neutrino interactions in the ...
Saldaña Coscollar, María; Adrián Martínez, Silvia; Bou Cabo, Manuel; Felis Enguix, Iván; Larosa, Giuseppina; Llorens Alvarez, Carlos David; Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel(Elsevier, 2015)
[EN] Underwater ultrasonic transducers are commonly used for marine applications including communication and positioning systems. In this work, an ultrasonic transmitter transducer developed for the very large underwater ...