The ANTARES Nine-Year Hunt for Neutrinos highlighted by AAS Nova February 2, 2018 - The recently published ANTARES search for a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos was highlighted on the AAS Nova site, a feature of AAS journals, on January 31th, 2018. This website is designed to highlight some of the most interesting recent results being published in…ANTARES/AUGER/IceCube search for neutrino emission from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 October 16, 2017- Today, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have announced the detection of a new gravitational wave event, GW170817, which constitutes the first time that a binary neutron star merger has been detected with the LIGO-Virgo observatories. This unique observation is even more…
Physics Nobel Prize 2017 Congratulations to R. Weiss, B. C. Barrish, K. S. Thorne and the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration ! October 3, 2017- The 2017 Physics Nobel Prize has been attributed to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for the observation of gravitational waves, a discovery announced on February 11th, 2016. The ANTARES Collaboration congratulates their pioneering work, and the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration…
ANTARES welcomes KM3NeT/ORCA under the sea! September 23, 2017- On September 22nd, the first ORCA detection unit, on the french KM3NeT site, 40 km offshore Toulon, came online with more than 500 photomultiplier tubes. The ANTARES Collaboration congratulates the KM3NeT Collaboration for this great achievement ! More information on the KM3NeT website. Below…
ICRC2017 : Best Poster Award for ANTARES (Steffen Hallmann, ECAP) July 21, 2017- From July 12 to July 21 2017, Busan (South Korea) hosted the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017). The Best Poster Award was attributed to Steffen Hallmann (ECAP, Germany), for his poster on his "Search for Neutrino Emission from the Fermi Bubbles with the…
New limits on dark matter by ANTARES from searches in the Galactic Centre and the Earth December 21, 2016- One of the most relevant physics topics studied by ANTARES is the nature of dark matter. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are the most popular set of candidates. If they are their own anti-particles, we could see the products of…
ANTARES at Neutrino 2016 July 16, 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…
ANTARES follow-up of Gravitational Wave event GW150914 detected by the Advanced LIGO interferometers on Sept. 14th, 2015 February 11, 2016- On September 14th, 2015 at 9:50:45 UTC, a gravitational wave signal, labelled GW150914, was recorded by the LIGO Hanford (Washington, USA) and LIGO Livingston (Lousiana, USA) detectors. The official announcement of this detection is reported here. The 90% confidence level localization…
ANTARES welcomes KM3NeT under the sea! December 15, 2015- On December 3rd, the first neutrino detection for KM3NeT-Italy has been successfully installed and operated. The ANTARES Collaboration congratulates colleagues and friends from the KM3NeT Collaboration for this major step forward. ANTARES is no longer alone in the search for…
Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 for “the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have masses” November 11, 2015- 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…