ANTARES Stato dell’esperimento Rinnovo del Memorandum di Understanding M.Anghinolfi : Responsabile nazionale dell’esperimento

V. Bertin - CPPM - Roma 70 m 450 m JunctionBox Interlink cables 40 km to shore 2500m inch PMTs 12 lines 25 storeys / line 3 PMTs / storey The ANTARES Detector

Results (point sources) 6 Selection optimized with MDP (Λ > 5.4): 2190 selected events. Sky map in galactic coordinates Our limits are competitive with other southern sky limits (NB.: 304 days live time part with only 5 lines. IceCube covers different energy range (more later) All-sky search gives results compatible with background (post-trial probability 87% ) List of 24 candidate sources

Candidate Search List of 24 candidate sources GX 339 Probabilty to be background fluctuation= 6.8%  not significant Most significant candidate GX 339-galactic micro-quasar

“Search for a diffuse flux of high-energy ν μ with the ANTARES neutrino telescope” Physics Letters B696 (2011) E 2  (E) 90% = 5.3×10 -8 GeV cm -2 s -1 sr TeV<E<2.5 PeV Diffuse  flux

Other ongoing analyses Nuclearites Close to unblinding data. Good prospects for limits. GWHEN: gravitational waves & high energy List of ν candidates for 2007 period ANTARES 5-lines+Virgo VSR1+LIGO S5 Results in one month : Antares 12 Lines + Virgo VSR2+LIGO S6 To be started Oscillations 3 year data can exclude (3σ) the non- oscillation hypothesis. For max. mixing % precision on Δm 2. Not competitive with MINOS, but first measurement with NT. Auger correlations Close to unblinding. Results soon. Di-muons (charm component + SUSY direct) Analysis started Stacking point sources Analysis started 9 Neutrinos from galactic plane Will start soon Neutrinos from Fermi Bubbles Will start soon Transient sources. Micro–quasars List of 4 μ-QSO selected (X-ray and radio). Stacking analysis of emission during high periods. CR composition Hit clustering algorithm selection in progress Supernova detection Tough due to bioluminescence. But double and triple coincidence method have sensitivity up to 4-5 kpc provided background rate is low Detection of HE γ-rays Essentially finished: extremely low signal. Cosmic rays anisotropies Just started More than 30 PHD students working on that...

Other analyses 11

Visibility (%) of the Fermi bubbles in the ANTARES site and in.... ICECUBE (South Pole)

Depth Dependency: ICECUBE vs ANTARES Astrop. Phys 33 (2010) 86-90

14  CPPM, Marseille  DSM/IRFU/CEA, Saclay  APC, Paris  LPC, Clermont-Ferrand  IPHC, Strasbourg  Univ. de H.-A., Mulhouse  IFREMER, Toulon/Brest  C.O.M. Marseille  LAM, Marseille  GeoAzur Villefranche  INSU-Division Technique  University/INFN of Bari  University/INFN of Bologna  University/INFN of Catania  LNS – Catania  University/INFN of Pisa  University/INFN of Rome  University/INFN of Genova  IFIC, Valencia  UPV, Valencia  UPC, Barcelona  NIKHEF,  Amsterdam  Utrecht  KVI Groningen  NIOZ Texel  ITEP,Moscow  Moscow State Univ  University of Erlangen Bamberg Observatory Bamberg Observatory  ISS, Bucarest The ANTARES Collaboration 7 countries 31 institutes ~150 scientists+engineers

NEW MOU

In planning the future operation, the Collaboration should keep two central priorities in mind. The ANTARES project is an important physics experiment and should be fully exploited as such. It is also an important test bed for a future km3 experiment and tests that allow testing for this new project. The FRB was presented the budget demand for 2011 which amounts to 539 KEuros. The FRB accepted this budget and asks the participating agencies to send their contributions according to the table presented in the Appendix. The FRB took note for the Collaboration budget forecast for 2012 amounting to 440 KEuros. The FRB members are in favour of the MoU renewal. They suggest to modify the program for the last two years: from “no maintenance” to “reduced maintenance”. They also suggest to specify that subsequently to decommissioning, the infrastructure may be used by groups active in “Earth & Sea Science”. Raccomandazioni dall’ External Review Committee e dal Financial Review Board

conclusioni Antares è l’unico telescopio sottomarino funzionante e in presa dati. Ha dimostrato che la manutenzione si può fare in modo efficace. Proposto rinnovo MOU per altri 5 anni. Numerose analisi sui dati raccolti (attualmente 30 PhD students)