ANTARES neutrino telescope: status, first results and sensitivity for the diffuse neutrino flux

TL;DR

ANTARES is a deep-sea neutrino telescope that detects high-energy neutrinos via Cherenkov light, providing initial performance results and sensitivity estimates for diffuse neutrino flux detection.

Contribution

This paper reports the first performance assessments and preliminary results of ANTARES, highlighting its capabilities in neutrino detection and flux sensitivity estimation.

Findings

Successful reconstruction of atmospheric muons and neutrinos

Initial sensitivity estimates for diffuse high-energy neutrino flux

Performance benchmarks of the ANTARES detector

Abstract

ANTARES is a neutrino telescope under the Mediterranean Sea, in a site 40 km off the French coast at a depth of 2475 m. It is an array of 12 lines equipped with 884 photomultipliers. The detection mechanism relies on the observation of the Cherenkov light emitted by charged leptons produced by neutrinos interacting in the water and ground surrounding the detector. First studies of the detector performances and preliminary results on reconstruction of atmospheric muons and neutrinos are presented, with the expected sensitivity for a diffuse flux of high energy neutrinos.