ANTARES
at Neutrino 2016
[Published
July 16th,
2016]
Last week, from July 4th to July 9th, ANTARES physicists
have participated in the biannual get together of neutrino
physicists at the 27th International Conference on Neutrino
Physics and Astrophysics, Neutrino
2016 in London, England.
On Monday, July 4th, in the session about neutrino
astronomy, Antoine Kouchner (AstroParticle &
Cosmology Laboratory, Paris, France)
presented the latest
results from the ANTARES neutrino telescope and
highlighted the capabilities of the KM3NeT/ARCA
detector for neutrino astronomy. In particular, A. Kouchner
presented the unblinded results of the search for diffuse
fluxes of cosmic neutrinos with data up to December 2015,
both in the track and cascade channels (see figure below).
The final sensitivity presented is very close to the cosmic
flux measured by IceCube.
ANTARES results on diffuse fluxes were presented in the rapporteur's
talk on the "experimental outlook" by M. Mezzetto
(INFN Padova, Italy), for instance. The talk by A.
Franckowiack (DESY, Germany) on Multi-Messenger
astronomy, the same day, insisted on several ANTARES
analyses (for example, the ANTARES neutrino ANT150109A,
which triggered the discovery of a X-ray source by Swift).
The review talk on Dark Matter by M. Danninger (U. British
Columbia, Canada) praised the excellent results of ANTARES
for the search of WIMPS in the direction of the Galactic
Center, which show that ANTARES has the best sensitivity for
neutrino lines.

IceCube diffuse flux results (left) and newest
ANTARES diffuse flux spectrum for tracks (right), as
presented during the rapporteur's talk on Neutrino
Astronomy, on Saturday July 9th at Neutrino 2016.
The
following ANTARES
posters were also presented at Neutrino 2016, which
prove the wealth of ANTARES scientific results :
- P1.001
- High-energy follow-up of the first gravitational
wave event GW150914
- P2.001
- Search for high energy neutrinos from bright GRBs
with ANTARES
- P2.002
- Search for a diffuse flux of astrphysical
neutrinos with the ANTARES telescope
- P2.003
- A search for neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles with
the ANTARES telescope
- P2.004
- All flavour search for cosmic neutrino sources
with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
- P2.006
- Search for signal emission from AGN populations
with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
- P2.007
- Study of the Galactic Center region with the
ANTARES neutrino telescope
- P4.005
- Results on dark matter searches with the ANTARES
neutrino telescope