Publications (34)
Time Calibration of the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
The ANTARES Collaboration, J. A. Aguilar, I. Al Samarai +135
The ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope comprises a three-dimensional array of photomultipliers to detect the Cherenkov light induced by upgoing relativistic charged particles orig…
The Positioning System of the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, M. Ageron, J. A. Aguilar +158
The ANTARES neutrino telescope, located 40km off the coast of Toulon in the Mediterranean Sea at a mooring depth of about 2475m, consists of twelve detection lines equipped typical…
First Search for Point Sources of High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
Antares Collaboration, S. Adrián-MartÃnez, J. A. Aguilar +153
Results are presented of a search for cosmic sources of high energy neutrinos with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The data were collected during 2007 and 2008 using detector confi…
First search for neutrinos in correlation with gamma-ray bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, I. Al Samarai, A. Albert +155
A search for neutrino-induced muons in correlation with a selection of 40 gamma-ray bursts that occurred in 2007 has been performed with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. During that…
The Importance of Correlations and Fluctuations on the Initial Source Eccentricity in High-Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
B. Alver, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +36
In this paper, we investigate various ways of defining the initial source eccentricity using the Monte Carlo Glauber (MCG) approach. In particular, we examine the participant eccen…
System size, energy, centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of charged-particle density in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC
PHOBOS Collaboration, G. I. Veres, B. Alver +66
Charged particle pseudorapidity distributions are presented from the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC, measured in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=19.6, 22.4, 62.4, 130 and 200 G…
Scaling properties in bulk and p-dependent particle production near midrapidity in relativistic heavy ion collisions
PHOBOS Collaboration, B. Alver, B. B. Back +56
The centrality dependence of the midrapidity charged-particle multiplicity density (1) is presented for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC over a broad range of collision…
Radar Absorption, Basal Reflection, Thickness, and Polarization Measurements from the Ross Ice Shelf
S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg, D. Besson +10
Radio-glaciological parameters from Moore's Bay, in the Ross Ice Shelf, have been measured. The thickness of the ice shelf in Moore's Bay was measured from reflection times of radi…
Search for Cosmic Neutrino Point Sources with Four Years of Data from the ANTARES Telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, S. Adrián-MartÃnez, I. Al Samarai +154
In this paper, a time integrated search for point sources of cosmic neutrinos is presented using the data collected from 2007 to 2010 by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. No statisti…
Identified hadron transverse momentum spectra in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_(NN))=62.4 GeV
PHOBOS Collaboration, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +56
Transverse momentum spectra of pions, kaons, protons and antiprotons from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_(NN)) = 62.4 GeV have been measured by the PHOBOS experiment at the Relativisti…
Contributions to the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2011) by the ANTARES collaboration
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, J. A. Aguilar, I. Al Samarai +155
The ANTARES detector, completed in 2008, is the largest neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere. It is located at a depth of 2.5 km in the Mediterranean Sea, 40 km off the To…
AMADEUS - The Acoustic Neutrino Detection Test System of the ANTARES Deep-Sea Neutrino Telescope
ANTARES collaboration, J. A. Aguilar, I. Al Samarai +149
The AMADEUS (ANTARES Modules for the Acoustic Detection Under the Sea) system which is described in this article aims at the investigation of techniques for acoustic detection of n…
Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf
S. W. Barwick, D. Z. Besson, A. Burgman +15
The ARIANNA hexagonal radio array (HRA) is an experiment in its pilot phase designed to detect cosmogenic neutrinos of energies above 10^16 eV. The most neutrino-like background st…
Performance of the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array
ARIANNA Collaboration, S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg +36
Installation of the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array (HRA) on the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica has been completed. This detector serves as a pilot program to the ARIANNA neutrino tele…
Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
ANTARES collaboration, S. Adrian-Martinez, I. Al Samarai +157
The data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope from 2007 to 2010, a total live time of 863 days, are used to measure the oscillation parameters of atmospheric neutrinos. Muon t…
A First Search for coincident Gravitational Waves and High Energy Neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007
The ANTARES Collaboration, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration +959
We present the results of the first search for gravitational wave bursts associated with high energy neutrinos. Together, these messengers could reveal new, hidden sources that are…
The ANTARES Telescope Neutrino Alert System
M. Ageron, J. A. Aguilar, I. Al Samarai +149
The ANTARES telescope has the capability to detect neutrinos produced in astrophysical transient sources. Potential sources include gamma-ray bursts, core collapse supernovae, and…
A Fast Algorithm for Muon Track Reconstruction and its Application to the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
ANTARES collaboration, J. A. Aguilar, I. Al Samarai +140
An algorithm is presented, that provides a fast and robust reconstruction of neutrino induced upward-going muons and a discrimination of these events from downward-going atmospheri…
Search for Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Flaring Blazars with the ANTARES Telescope
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, I. Al Samarai, A. Albert +159
The ANTARES telescope is well-suited to detect neutrinos produced in astrophysical transient sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all times with a high duty cy…
Phobos results on charged particle multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions in Au+Au, Cu+Cu, d+Au, and p+p collisions at ultra-relativistic energies
B. Alver, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +76
Pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles emitted in , , , and collisions over a wide energy range have been measured using the PHOBOS detector at…
A method for detection of muon induced electromagnetic showers with the ANTARES detector
J. A. Aguilar, I. Al. Samarai, A. Albert +148
The primary aim of ANTARES is neutrino astronomy with upward going muons created in charged current muon neutrino interactions in the detector and its surroundings. Downward going…
Time Domain Response of the ARIANNA Detector
S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg, D. Z. Besson +12
The Antarctic Ross Ice Shelf Antenna Neutrino Array (ARIANNA) is a high-energy neutrino detector designed to record the Askaryan electric field signature of cosmogenic neutrino int…
Livetime and sensitivity of the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array
ARIANNA Collaboration, S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg +36
The ARIANNA collaboration completed the installation of the hexagonal radio array (HRA) in December 2014, serving as a pilot program for a planned high energy neutrino telescope lo…
Measurement of the Group Velocity of Light in Sea Water at the ANTARES Site
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, I. Al Samarai, A. Albert +155
The group velocity of light has been measured at eight different wavelengths between 385 nm and 532 nm in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of about 2.2 km with the ANTARES optical…
Search for a diffuse flux of high-energy with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, J. A. Aguilar, I. Al Samarai +141
A search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos, using data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope is presented. A sr sky was monitored for a to…
System Size, Energy and Centrality Dependence of Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Particles in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
B. Alver, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +55
We present the first measurements of the pseudorapidity distribution of primary charged particles in Cu+Cu collisions as a function of collision centrality and energy, \sqrtsnn = 2…
Design and Performance of the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array Systems
S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg, D. Z. Besson +16
We report on the development, installation and operation of the first three of seven stations deployed at the ARIANNA site's pilot Hexagonal Radio Array in Antarctica. The primary…
A First Search for Cosmogenic Neutrinos with the ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array
ARIANNA Collaboration, S. W. Barwick, E. C. Berg +35
The ARIANNA experiment seeks to observe the diffuse flux of neutrinos in the 10^8 - 10^10 GeV energy range using a grid of radio detectors at the surface of the Ross Ice Shelf of A…
Nucleon-Gold Collisions at 200 AGeV Using Tagged d+Au Interactions in PHOBOS
B. B. Back, M. D. Baker, M. Ballintijn +58
Forward calorimetry in the PHOBOS detector has been used to study charged hadron production in d+Au, p+Au and n+Au collisions at sqrt(s_nn) = 200 GeV. The forward proton calorimete…
Acoustic and optical variations during rapid downward motion episodes in the deep north-western Mediterranean Sea
H. van Haren, I. Taupier-Letage, J. A. Aguilar +138
An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was moored at the deep-sea site of the ANTARES neutrino telescope near Toulon, France, thus providing a unique opportunity to compare hi…
Participant and spectator scaling of spectator fragments in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 19.6 and 22.4 GeV
B. Alver, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +79
Spectator fragments resulting from relativistic heavy ion collisions, consisting of single protons and neutrons along with groups of stable nuclear fragments up to Nitrogen (Z=7),…
Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, S. Adrián-MartÃnez, J. A. Aguilar +152
Magnetic monopoles are predicted in various unified gauge models and could be produced at intermediate mass scales. Their detection in a neutrino telescope is facilitated by the la…
First Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun Using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, S. Adrián-Martinez, I. Al Samarai +153
A search for high-energy neutrinos coming from the direction of the Sun has been performed using the data recorded by the ANTARES neutrino telescope during 2007 and 2008. The neutr…
Non-flow correlations and elliptic flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200GeV
PHOBOS Collaboration, B. Alver, B. B. Back +66
We present first results on event-by-event elliptic flow fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions corrected for effects of non-flow correlations where the magnitude of non-flow c…