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hep-ex2023

Probing invisible neutrino decay with KM3NeT-ORCA

KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +252

In the era of precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters, upcoming neutrino experiments will also be sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. KM3NeT/ORCA…

hep-ex2026

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

physics.ins-det2018

Analysis of 90 days operation of the gyroscope GINGERINO

J Belfi, N Beverini, G. Carelli +6

GINGERINO is a square ring-laser prototype, which has been built to investigate the level of noise inside the Gran Sasso underground laboratory. It Is meant for fundamental physics…

hep-ph2020

Factorization of cross section, differential in , and thrust, in the -jet limit

M. Boglione, A. Simonelli

Factorizing the cross section for single hadron production in annihilations is a highly non trivial task when the transverse momentum of the outgoing hadron with respect t…

astro-ph.IM2023

The Power Board of the KM3NeT Digital Optical Module: design, upgrade, and production

S. Aiello, A. Albert, S. Alves Garre +281

The KM3NeT Collaboration is building an underwater neutrino observatory at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea consisting of two neutrino telescopes, both composed of a three-dimen…

hep-ex2026

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

hep-ph2021

Kinematic regions in the factorized cross section in a -jet topology with thrust

M. Boglione, A. Simonelli

Factorization theorems allow to separate out the universal, non-perturbative content of the hadronic cross section from its perturbative part, which can be computed in perturbative…

nucl-ex2026

Frascati 22 GeV Workshop Summary

A. Accardi, P. Achenbach, A. Afanasev +103

This document summarizes the outcomes of the "Science at the Luminosity Frontier: Jefferson Lab at 22 GeV" workshop, held at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati in December 2…

hep-ex2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

Searches for neutrino counterparts of gravitational waves from the LIGO/Virgo third observing run with KM3NeT

KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +273

The KM3NeT neutrino telescope is currently being deployed at two different sites in the Mediterranean Sea. First searches for astrophysical neutrinos have been performed using data…

hep-ph2023

Full treatment of the thrust distribution in single inclusive processes

M. Boglione, A. Simonelli

Extending the transverse momentum dependent factorization to thrust dependent observables entails a series of difficulties, ultimately associated to the behavior of soft radiation.…

hep-ph2022

Snowmass 2021 White Paper: Electron Ion Collider for High Energy Physics

R. Abdul Khalek, U. D'Alesio, M. Arratia +105

Electron Ion Collider (EIC) is a particle accelerator facility planned for construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York by the United States Department o…

hep-ph2022

Transverse Momentum Dependent Fragmentation Functions from recent BELLE data

M. Boglione, J. O. Gonzalez-Hernandez, A. Simonelli

A new formalism for the factorization of the cross section for single hadron production in annihilations, differential in , and thrust, is applied to the phenom…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

Prospects for combined analyses of hadronic emission from -ray sources in the Milky Way with CTA and KM3NeT

T. Unbehaun, L. Mohrmann, S. Funk +271

The Cherenkov Telescope Array and the KM3NeT neutrino telescopes are major upcoming facilities in the fields of -ray and neutrino astronomy, respectively. Possible simultaneous…

physics.ins-det2016

First Results of GINGERino, a deep underground ringlaser

J. Belfi, N. Beverini, F. Bosi +11

Large ring-laser gyroscopes are capable of measuring angular rotations with a precision well below fractions of , not far from , the accuracy required for…

hep-ex2024

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

hep-ph2021

Phenomenological extraction of a universal TMD fragmentation function from single hadron production in annihilations

M. Boglione, J. O. Gonzalez-Hernandez, A. Simonelli

Factorizing the cross section for single hadron production in annihilations, differential in , and thrust, is a highly non trivial task. We have devised a facto…

hep-ex2024

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2023

Embedded Software of the KM3NeT Central Logic Board

S. Aiello, A. Albert, S. Alves Garre +271

The KM3NeT Collaboration is building and operating two deep sea neutrino telescopes at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The telescopes consist of latices of photomultiplier tub…

astro-ph.HE2024

Astronomy potential of KM3NeT/ARCA

S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +275

The KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino detector is currently under construction at 3500 m depth offshore Capo Passero, Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea. The main science objectives are the detec…

quant-ph2023

A scanning device for spatial quantum efficiency measurements of photomultipliers tubes

P. Migliozzi, C. M. Mollo, A. Simonelli

This paper presents a quantum efficiency measurement setup based on a 2D motorized stage, a wide spectrum xenon lamp, a beam splitter system, and two calibrated photo-diodes for me…

hep-ph2020

Universality-breaking effects in hadronic production processes

M. Boglione, A. Simonelli

Recent BELLE measurements provide the cross section for single hadron production in annihilations, differential in thrust and in the hadron transverse momentum with respec…

hep-ph2024

Phenomenology of TMD parton distributions in Drell-Yan and boson production in a hadron structure oriented approach

F. Aslan, M. Boglione, J. O. Gonzalez-Hernandez +3

We present a first practical implementation of a recently proposed hadron structure oriented (HSO) approach to TMD phenomenology applied to Drell-Yan like processes, including lept…

astro-ph.HE2024

Search for Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A using the KM3NeT ARCA and ORCA detectors

S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +273

Gamma-ray bursts are promising candidate sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The recent GRB 221009A event, identified as the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected, pr…