Publications (19)
Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +260
KM3NeT/ORCA is a water Cherenkov neutrino detector under construction and anchored at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The detector is designed to study oscillations of atmosph…
Searches for neutrinos in the direction of radio-bright blazars with the ANTARES telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +162
Active galaxies, especially blazars, are among the most promising neutrino source candidates. To date, ANTARES searches for these objects considered GeV-TeV -ray bright blazars…
The ultra-high-energy event KM3-230213A within the global neutrino landscape
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, S. Aiello +290
On February 13th, 2023, the KM3NeT/ARCA telescope detected a neutrino candidate with an estimated energy in the hundreds of PeVs. In this article, the observation of this ultra-hig…
Testing Heavy Dark Matter Decay as the Origin of KM3-230213A
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, J. A. Aguilar +287
This work explores the hypothesis that the ultra-high-energy neutrino event KM3-230213A originates from the decay of a heavy dark matter particle with a mass above PeV scale. The a…
Probing invisible neutrino decay with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +273
In the era of precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters, it is necessary for experiments to disentangle discrepancies that may indicate physics beyond the Standard…
First Searches for Dark Matter with the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescopes
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +262
Indirect dark matter detection methods are used to observe the products of dark matter annihilations or decays originating from astrophysical objects where large amounts of dark ma…
Search for quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillations with six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +259
Neutrinos described as an open quantum system may interact with the environment which introduces stochastic perturbations to their quantum phase. This mechanism leads to a loss of…
Constraining gamma-ray burst parameters with the first ultra-high energy neutrino event KM3-230213A
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +278
Context: The detection of the highest energy neutrino observed to date by KM3NeT, with an estimated energy of 220 PeV, opens up new possibilities for the study and identification o…
Study of tau neutrinos and non-unitary neutrino mixing with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +274
Oscillations of atmospheric muon and electron neutrinos produce tau neutrinos with energies in the GeV range, which can be observed by the ORCA detector of the KM3NeT neutrino tele…
Search for non-standard neutrino interactions with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +261
KM3NeT/ORCA is an underwater neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. Its primary scientific goal is to measure the atmospheric neutrino oscillation paramete…
Atmospheric neutrino constraints on Lorentz invariance violation with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +294
Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry underlying both the Standard Model of particle physics and General Relativity. Testing its validity provides a direct means of searchin…
Search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +285
The existence of an eV-scale sterile neutrino has been proposed to explain several anomalous experimental results obtained over the course of the past 25 years. The first search fo…
Optimizing the potential of KM3NeT in detecting core-collapse supernovae
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +285
Core-collapse supernovae mark the end of life of massive stars. However, despite their importance in astrophysics, their underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Neutrinos that emerge…
The Online Data Filter for the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescopes
O. Adriani, S. Aiello, A. Albert +279
The KM3NeT research infrastructure comprises two neutrino telescopes located in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea, namely ORCA and ARCA. KM3NeT/ORCA is designed for the meas…
The SARAO MeerKAT 1.3 GHz Galactic Plane Survey
S. Goedhart, W. D. Cotton, F. Camilo +127
We present the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS), a 1.3 GHz continuum survey of almost half of the Galactic Plane (251° 358°and 2° 61°at $|b| \l…
gSeaGen code by KM3NeT: an efficient tool to propagate muons simulated with CORSIKA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +260
The KM3NeT Collaboration has tackled a common challenge faced by the astroparticle physics community, namely adapting the experiment-specific simulation software to work with the C…
KM3NeT Constraint on Lorentz-Violating Superluminal Neutrino Velocity
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, S. Aiello +290
Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry of spacetime and foundational to modern physics. One of its most important consequences is the constancy of the speed of light. This in…
VLBI Scrutiny of a New Neutrino-Blazar Multiwavelength-Flare Coincidence
F. Eppel, M. Kadler, E. Ros +20
In the past years, evidence has started piling up that some high-energy cosmic neutrinos can be associated with blazars in flaring states. On February 26, 2022, a new blazar-neutri…
On the Potential Galactic Origin of the Ultra-High-Energy Event KM3-230213A
O. Adriani, S. Aiello, A. Albert +286
The KM3NeT observatory detected the most energetic neutrino candidate ever observed, with an energy between 72 PeV and 2.6 EeV at the 90% confidence level. The observed neutrino is…