Speaker
Dr
Thomas Eberl
(ECAP / Univ. Erlangen)
Description
The ANTARES detector, located 40 km off the French coast,
is the largest deep-sea neutrino telescope in the Northern Hemisphere.
It consists of an array of 885 photomultipliers detecting the Cherenkov
light induced by charged leptons produced by neutrino interactions in
and around the detector.
The primary goal of ANTARES is to search for astrophysical neutrinos
in the TeV- PeV range. This comprises generic searches for any diffuse
cosmic neutrino flux as well as more specific searches for astrophysical
sources such as active galactic nuclei or Galactic sources.
The search program also includes multi-messenger analyses based
on time and/or space coincidences with other cosmic probes.
The ANTARES observatory is sensitive to a wide-range of other phenomena,
from atmospheric neutrino oscillations to dark matter annihilation or potential
exotics such as nuclearites and magnetic monopoles.
We will report on the most recent results obtained with 5 years of data acquired
by the telescope.
Primary author
Dr
Thomas Eberl
(ECAP / Univ. Erlangen)
