Speaker
Mr
Gómez González Juan Pablo
(ANTARES)
Description
The ANTARES detector is the first full operational and the largest underwater
neutrino telescope in the Northern Hemisphere. Located at 40 km offshore the coast of
Toulon, it consists of 12 detection lines anchored to the seabed at a depth of 2475 m
and divided on 25 foors (or storeys) composed by a triplet of photomultiplier tubes
(PMTs). This three-dimensional photo-detector array detects the Cherenkov radiation
induced by the charged particles originated in the interaction of high energy
neutrinos with the matter surrounding the detector. From timing and position
information of the hits arriving to the PMTs the track of the produced muon is
reconstructed using a likelihood-based algorithm.
The main goal of the experiment is the detection and identification of astrophysical
sources of neutrinos. In this contribution results from the search for point sources
analysis will be presented, including some of the most stringent limits for the
Southern Sky.
Primary author
Mr
Gómez González Juan Pablo
(ANTARES)
