IIHE invited seminar: ANTARES and KM3NeT: the sight of the neutrino sky from the Mediterranean

by Dr Juan de Dios Zornoza (Universidad do Valencia)

Friday 5 Jun 2015, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Brussels

1G003 (VUB)

abstract: Neutrino astronomy has become a mature branch of Astroparticles in the last years. The discovery of a cosmic neutrino signal by the IceCube collaboration has started to answer some old questions in the field and has brought new ones. In parallel, the projects in the Mediterranean Sea have taken important steps. The ANTARES detector was in deployed in 2008 and has produced a rich scientific output since then. Given its location in the Northern Hemisphere and being installed in water, has explored a large part of the Southern neutrino sky with unsurpassed sensitivity. The construction of the next generation detector has also started. The KM3NeT collaboration has successfully installed the first prototypes of optical modules and strings and will start the deployment of the first definitive line this spring. Thirty more strings will be deployed before the end of 2016. The final goal is to install a detector of several cubic kilometers in the Mediterranean, including a denser part for the measurement of the neutrino mass hierarchy (ORCA). In this talk we will review the results of the ANTARES experiment and the status, plans and prospects for the KM3NeT observatory.