Speaker
Dr
Stephanie Escoffier
(Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille)
Description
Neutrino astronomy plays a major role in the understanding of cosmic particle
acceleration mechanisms and so may provide valuable information about the properties
of the sources of the highest energy particles in the Universe. Another promising
area of research of a neutrino telescope lies in the indirect search for dark matter
particles or particles beyond the Standard Model. ANTARES, the largest neutrino
telescope in the Northern hemisphere, is located in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth
of 2475m. The telescope consists of an array of 885 light sensors along twelve
vertical lines to detect the Cherenkov light from neutrino-induced muons. With the
first line connected in 2006, observations in full mode started in May 2008. The
recent status of observations and physics results will be presented and detection
prospects will be discussed.
Primary author
Dr
Stephanie Escoffier
(Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille)
