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    • Architecture and performance of the KM3NeT front-end firmware 

      Aiello, S; Albert, Arnauld; Alves Garre, Sergio; Zineb, Aly; Ameli, Fabrizio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Anton, Gisela (International Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2021-01-01)
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      The KM3NeT infrastructure consists of two deep-sea neutrino telescopes being deployed in the Mediterranean Sea. The telescopes will detect extraterrestrial and atmospheric neutrinos by means of the incident photons induced ...
    • Atmospheric neutrinos with the first KM3NeT/ORCA data and prospects for measuring the atmospheric neutrino flux 

      Stavropoulos, Dimitris; Pestel, Valentin; Aly, Zineb; Tzamariudaki, Ekaterini; Markou, Christos; Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Albert, Arthur; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Alves Garre, Sergio; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ameli, Fabrizio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco (arXiv, 2021)
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      KM3NeT is a research infrastructure aiming to study astrophysical sources as well as to perform particle physics studies, through the detection of neutrinos in the abyssal depths of the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ORCA ...
    • 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 neutrino oscillation measurement in KM3NeT/ORCA 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Albert, Arthur; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Alves Garre, Sergio; Aly, Zineb; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ameli, Fabrizio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Ardid Ramírez, Joan Salvador (arXiv, 2021)
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      The KM3NeT/ORCA is a next-generation neutrino detector currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. There are currently 6 Detection Units deployed, and in the past year the detector has been steadily taking data. ...
    • 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 ...
    • KM3NeT Core Collapse Supernovae observation program in standalone and multi-messenger modes 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Albert, Arthur; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Alves Garre, Sergio; Aly, Zineb; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ameli, Fabrizio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Isalgué Buxeda, Antonio (arXiv, 2021)
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      The KM3NeT research infrastructure in the Mediterranean is a multi-purpose cubic-kilometre neutrino observatory consisting of two detectors optimised to study cosmic and atmospheric neutrinos between GeV to PeV energies. ...
    • 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 ...
    • KM3NeT performance on oscillation and absorption tomography of the Earth 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Ambrosone, Antonio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Aublin, J. (arXiv, 2021)
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      The KM3NeT neutrino telescope, currently under construction, consists of two detectors in the Mediterranean Sea, ORCA and ARCA, both using arrays of optical modules to detect the Cherenkov light produced by charged particles ...
    • KM3NeT/ARCA sensitivity to transient neutrino sources 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Ambrosone, Antonio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Aublin, J.; Bagatelas, Christos (arXiv, 2021)
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      The KM3NeT Collaboration is constructing a km3 -volume neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean sea, ARCA (Astroparticle Research with Cosmics in the Abyss), for the detection and subsequent study of high-energy cosmic ...
    • Nanobeacon: a time calibration device for the KM3NeT neutrino telescope 

      Aiello, S; Albert, Arnauld; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Alves Garre, Sergio; Aly, Zineb; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ameli, Fabrizio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Ardid Ramírez, Joan Salvador (2022-10-01)
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      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, each holding a set of 31 small-area ...
    • Neutrino mass ordering determination through combined analysis with JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA 

      Chau, Nearkasen; Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Alves Garre, Sergio; Ambrosone, Antonio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Ardid Ramírez, Joan Salvador; Aublin, J. (arXiv, 2021)
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      The determination of neutrino mass ordering (NMO) is one of the prime goals of several neutrino experiments. KM3NeT/ORCA and JUNO are two next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments both aiming at addressing this ...
    • Neutrino non-standard interactions with the KM3NeT/ORCA detector 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Ambrosone, Antonio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Aublin, J. (arXiv, 2021)
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      KM3NeT/ORCA is a dense array that constitutes the low-energy branch of the KM3NeT project with the main goal of resolving the question of the neutrino mass ordering. At present, the KM3NeT/ORCA Phase 1 has already been ...
    • PMT gain calibration and monitoring based on highly compressed hit information in KM3NeT 

      Fermani, P.; Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Albert, Arthur; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Alves Garre, Sergio; Aly, Zineb; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ameli, Fabrizio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Ardid Ramírez, Joan Salvador; Aublin, J. (arXiv, 2021)
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      The cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope, consisting of large-scale 3D-arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) currently under construction on the Mediterranean seabed, relies on accurate calibration procedures in order to ...
    • Real-time Multi-Messenger Analysis Framework of KM3NeT 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Ambrosone, Antonio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Aublin, J. (arXiv, 2021)
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      KM3NeT is a multi-purpose cubic-kilometer neutrino observatory in construction in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of ORCA and ARCA (for Oscillation and Astroparticle Research with Cosmics in the Abyss, respectively); ...
    • Search for nuclearites with the KM3NeT detector 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Ambrosone, Antonio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Aublin, J.; Bagatelas, Christos; Gibergans Bàguena, José (arXiv, 2021)
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      Strange quark matter (SQM) is a hypothetical type of matter composed of almost equal quantities of up, down and strange quarks. In [1], Edward Witten presented the SQM as a denser and more stable matter that could represent ...
    • Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector to the neutrino mass ordering and beyond 

      Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Alves Garre, Sergio; Aly, Zineb; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ameli, Fabrizio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Aublin, J.; Bagatelas, Christos (arXiv, 2021)
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      The KM3NeT collaboration is currently building a new generation of large-volume waterCherenkov neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean sea. Two detectors, ARCA and ORCA, are under construction. They feature different ...
    • 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. ...