par Aguilar Sanchez, Juan Antonio 
Référence ICRC 2007(3-11 July 2007: Merida, Yucatan; Mexico), Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Vol. 5, page (1373-1376)
Publication Publié, 2007
Référence ICRC 2007(3-11 July 2007: Merida, Yucatan; Mexico), Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Vol. 5, page (1373-1376)
Publication Publié, 2007
Publication dans des actes
| Résumé : | The ANTARES telescope is being built in the Mediterranean Sea. The detector consists of a 3D array of photomultipliers (PMTs) that detects the Cherenkov light induced by the muons produced in neutrino interactions. Other signatures can also be detected. Since the neutrino fluxes from point-like sources are expected to be small, it is of the utmost importance to take advantage of the ANTARES pointing accuracy (angular resolution better than 0.3 degrees for muon events above 10 TeV) to disentangle a possible signal from the unavoidable atmospheric neutrino background. In order to distinguish an excess of neutrino events from the background, several searching algorithms have been developed within the ANTARES collaboration. In this contribution, the discovery potential and sensitivity to point-like sources of the ANTARES neutrino telescope are presented. |
