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    • A method to stabilise the performance of negatively fed KM3NeT photomultipliers 

      Adrian Martinez, Silvia; Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Albert, A.; Ameli, F; Anassontzis, E.G.; André, Michel (2016-12-19)
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      The KM3NeT research infrastructure, currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea, will host neutrino telescopes for the identification of neutrino sources in the Universe and for studies of the neutrino mass ...
    • Characterisation of the Hamamatsu photomultipliers for the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope 

      Aiello, S; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, G.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Avgitas, T.; Bertin, V.; Bormuth, R.; Bouwhuis, M.C.; Puricelli, Stefano; Cherubini, Silvio; Coniglione, R.; Mannheim, Karl; Morganti, Michele; Pellegrino, Carlo; Piattelli, P.; Real, Del; Santangelo, A; Sharma, Aniruddh; Trovato, A.; Zaborov, D.; Zúñiga Román, Juan (2018-05-01)
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      The Hamamatsu R12199-02 3-inch photomultiplier tube is the photodetector chosen for the first phase of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope. About 7000 photomultipliers have been characterised for dark count rate, timing spread ...
    • Deep-sea deployment of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope detection units by self-unrolling 

      Aiello, S; Albert, Andreas; Alves Garre, Sergio; Ameli, F; Anassontzis, E.G.; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Aublin, J.; Bagatelas, Christos (2020-11-19)
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      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 strings—equipped with optical instrumentation ...
    • Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units The KM3NeT Collaboration 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Aublin, J.; Bagatelas, Christos; Barbarino, G.C.; Bertin, Vincent; Bouwhuis, M.C.; Puricelli, Stefano; Chau, Nearkasen; Cherubini, Silvio; Coniglione, R.; D'Amico, Antonio; Fermani, P.; Lamare, P.; Mannheim, Karl; Morganti, Michele; Pellegrino, Carlo; Piattelli, P.; Real, Del; Santangelo, A; Sharma, Aniruddh; Tingay, S. J.; Trovato, A.; Zaborov, D. (springer-Verlag, 2020-02-06)
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      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 Collaboration aims at identifying and studying ...
    • Event reconstruction for KM3NeT/ORCA using convolutional neural networks 

      Aiello, S; Albert, A.; Alves Garre, Sergio; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Anton, Gisela; Aublin, J.; Bagatelas, Christos; Barbarino, G.C.; Baret, B. (2020-10-01)
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      The KM3NeT research infrastructure is currently under construction at two locations in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ORCA water-Cherenkov neutrino detector off the French coast will instrument several megatons of ...
    • Expectations for the high-energy neutrino detection from starburst galaxies with KM3NeT/ARCA 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Albert, Arthur; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Alves Garre, Sergio; Aly, Zineb; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M. (arXiv, 2021)
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      Star-forming galaxies (SFGs) and starburst galaxies (SBGs) are extragalactic sources which could produce high-energy neutrinos. In principle, they could play a rather important role for explaining at least a sizeable part ...
    • First observation of the cosmic ray shadow of the moon and the sun with KM3NeT/ORCA 

      Aiello, S; Albert, Arthur; Alves Garre, Sergio; Aly, Zineb; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Ardid Ramírez, Joan Salvador; Aublin, J.; Bagatelas, Christos (springer-Verlag, 2023-04-28)
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      This article reports the first observation of the Moon and the Sun shadows in the sky distribution of cosmicray induced muons measured by the KM3NeT/ORCA detector. The analysed data-taking period spans from February 2020 ...
    • gSeaGen: The KM3NeT GENIE-based code for neutrino telescopes 

      Aiello, S; Albert, Arnauld; Alves Garre, Sergio; Alyd, Z.; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Anton, Gisela (2020-11-01)
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      The gSeaGen code is a GENIE-based application developed to efficiently generate high statistics samples of events, induced by neutrino interactions, detectable in a neutrino telescope. The gSeaGen code is able to generate ...
    • Intrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, G.; Ameli, F; André, Michel (2017-05-01)
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      Studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the few-GeV range with a multi-megaton detector promises to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is the main science goal pursued by the future KM3NeT/ORCA water Cherenkov ...
    • KM3NeT front-end and readout electronics system: hardware, firmware, and software 

      Aiello, S; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Aublin, J.; Bagatelas, Christos; Barbarino, G.C. (International Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2019-12-23)
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      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 telescopes will consist of large volume ...
    • Probing invisible neutrino decay with KM3NeT/ORCA 

      Aiello, S; Albert, Arthur; Alves Garre, Sergio; Aly, Zineb; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Ardid Ramírez, Joan Salvador; Aublin, J.; Bagatelas, Christos (Springer, 2023-04-19)
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      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 is a neutrino detector optimised for ...
    • Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino telescope to point-like neutrino sources 

      Aiello, S; Akrame, S.E.; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Anassontzis, E.G. (2019-09-01)
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      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 detection of high-energy neutrinos of ...
    • Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA 

      Aiello, S; Albert, A.; Alves Garre, Sergio; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Aublin, J.; Bagatelas, Christos; Baret, B.; van den Berg, A.M.; Bertin, Vincent; Biagi, S.; Bouwhuis, M.C.; Brunner, J.; Busto, José (Springer, 2021-10-21)
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      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 sterile neutrino in a 3+1 model is presented. ...
    • The control unit of the KM3NeT data acquisition system 

      Aiello, S; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco (2020-11-01)
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      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 Italy, are already taking data while ...