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Publications (38)

astro-ph.IM2019

The Control Unit of the KM3NeT Data Acquisition System

S. Aiello, F. Ameli, M. Andre +217

The KM3NeT Collaboration runs a multi-site neutrino observatory in the Mediterranean Sea. Water Cherenkov particle detectors, deep in the sea and far off the coasts of France and I…

physics.ins-det2019

Letter of Interest for a Neutrino Beam from Protvino to KM3NeT/ORCA

A. V. Akindinov, E. G. Anassontzis, G. Anton +88

The Protvino accelerator facility located in the Moscow region, Russia, is in a good position to offer a rich experimental research program in the field of neutrino physics. Of par…

hep-ex2021

Combined sensitivity of JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA to the neutrino mass ordering

KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +275

This article presents the potential of a combined analysis of the JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA experiments to determine the neutrino mass ordering. This combination is particularly interes…

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…

astro-ph.HE2021

Implementation and first results of the KM3NeT real-time core-collapse supernova neutrino search

KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +242

The KM3NeT research infrastructure is under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. KM3NeT will study atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos with two multi-purpose neutrino detecto…

physics.ins-det2020

The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment -- Snowmass LOI

Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, P. Adrich +387

Hyper-Kamiokande is the next generation underground water Cherenkov detector that builds on the highly successful Super-Kamiokande experiment. The detector which has an 8.4~times l…

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…

astro-ph.IM2021

Nanobeacon: A time calibration device for the KM3NeT neutrino telescope

S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +238

The KM3NeT Collaboration is currently constructing a multi-site high-energy neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea consisting of matrices of pressure-resistant glass spheres,…

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…

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-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.IM2019

KM3NeT front-end and readout electronics system: hardware, firmware and software

The KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, F. Ameli +237

The KM3NeT research infrastructure being built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea will host water-Cherenkov telescopes for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The neutrino teles…

astro-ph.IM2016

Letter of Intent for KM3NeT 2.0

S. Adrián-Martínez, M. Ageron, F. Aharonian +244

The main objectives of the KM3NeT Collaboration are i) the discovery and subsequent observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the Universe and ii) the determination of the mas…

hep-ex2021

Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA

S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +245

KM3NeT/ORCA is a next-generation neutrino telescope optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillations studies. In this paper, the sensitivity of ORCA to the presence of a light steri…

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…

physics.ins-det2020

Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units

KM3NeT Collaboration, M. Ageron, S. Aiello +262

KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collabora…

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…

astro-ph.HE2021

The KM3NeT potential for the next core-collapse supernova observation with neutrinos

KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +245

The KM3NeT research infrastructure is under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of two water Cherenkov neutrino detectors, ARCA and ORCA, aimed at neutrino astrophys…

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…

astro-ph.IM2021

Supernova Model Discrimination with Hyper-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, P. Adrich +499

Core-collapse supernovae are among the most magnificent events in the observable universe. They produce many of the chemical elements necessary for life to exist and their remnants…

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-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…

physics.ins-det2017

Intrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector

S. Adrián-Martínez, M. Ageron, S. Aiello +250

Studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the few-GeV range with a multimegaton detector promises to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is the main science goal pursue…

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.IM2020

Deep-sea deployment of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope detection units by self-unrolling

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

KM3NeT is a research infrastructure being installed in the deep Mediterranean Sea. It will house a neutrino telescope comprising hundreds of networked moorings - detection units or…

hep-ex2021

Determining the Neutrino Mass Ordering and Oscillation Parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA

S. Aiello, A. Albert, S. Alves Garre +239

The next generation of water Cherenkov neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea are under construction offshore France (KM3NeT/ORCA) and Sicily (KM3NeT/ARCA). The KM3NeT/ORCA d…

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…

astro-ph.HE2019

Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino telescope to point-like neutrino sources

The KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, S. E. Akrame +219

KM3NeT will be a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ARCA detector, to be installed at the Capo Passero site (Italy), is optimised for the…

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…