Search for neutrino emission from gamma-ray sources with the Antares Telescope

TL;DR

This paper describes the ANTARES undersea neutrino telescope's search for cosmic neutrino sources, presenting preliminary results from 2007-2010 that set upper limits on neutrino fluxes but did not detect sources.

Contribution

It reports the first search for point-like neutrino sources using the ANTARES telescope and provides preliminary flux upper limits based on data collected over three years.

Findings

No cosmic neutrino sources detected

Upper limits on neutrino fluxes established

Data collected from 2007 to 2010 analyzed

Abstract

ANTARES is the first undersea neutrino detector ever built and presently the neutrino telescope with the largest effective area operating in the Northern Hemisphere. A three- dimensional array of photomultiplier tubes detects the Cherenkov light induced by the muons produced in the interaction of high energy neutrinos with the matter surrounding the detector. The detection of astronomical neutrino sources is one of the main goals of ANTARES. The search for point-like neutrino sources with the ANTARES telescope is described and the preliminary results obtained with data collected from 2007 to 2010 are shown. No cosmic neutrino source has been observed and neutrino flux upper limits have been calculated for the most promising source candidates.