The ANTARES Collaboration congratulates
Takaati Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald who were awarded on October 6th the
Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 for "the discovery of neutrino oscillations,
which shows that neutrinos have masses". Read the
Press
Release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.
Some of the results obtained by A. B. McDonald and the SNO Collaboration,
related to solar neutrinos, are summarised in Figure 1 below (see also the
SNO Page and
Ahmad
et al., 2002). The results obtained by T. Kajita and the
Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, related to atmospheric neutrinos, are
shown in Figure 2 (see also the
SK
Page and
Fukuda et
al., 1999).
In 2012, the ANTARES Collaboration reported the observation of
oscillations from atmospheric muon neutrinos, yielding an independent
measurement of the oscillation parameters.
This was obtained using muon tracks with energies as low as 20 GeV, while
the telescope was primarily optimised for TeV neutrino energies. The
results were presented in
Measurement
of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with the ANTARES neutrino telescope.
