Observation of the cosmic ray shadow of the Sun with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, M. Ardid, J. -J. Aubert, J. Aublin, B. Baret, S. Basa, B. Belhorma1, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, M… 展开作者
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, M. Ardid, J. -J. Aubert, J. Aublin, B. Baret, S. Basa, B. Belhorma1, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, M. Bissinger, J. Boumaaza, M. Bouta, M. C. Bouwhuis, H. Brânzaş, R. Bruijn, J. Brunner, J. Busto, A. Capone, L. Caramete, J. Carr, S. Celli, M. Chabab, T. N. Chau, R. Cherkaoui El Moursli, T. Chiarusi, M. Circella, A. Coleiro, M. Colomer-Molla, R. Coniglione, P. Coyle, A. Creusot, A. F. Díaz, G. de Wasseige, A. Deschamps, C. Distefano, I. Di Palma, A. Domi, C. Donzaud, D. Dornic, D. Drouhin, T. Eber, N. El Khayati, A. Enzenhöfer, A. Ettahiri, P. Fermani, G. Ferrara, F. Filippini, L. Fusco, P. Gay, H. Glotin, R. Gozzini, K. Graf, C. Guidi, S. Hallmann, H. van Haren, A. J. Heijboer, Y. Hello, J. J. Hernández-Rey, J. Hößl, J. Hofestädt, F. Huang, G. Illuminati, C. W. James, M. de Jong, P. de Jong, M. Jongen, M. Kadler, O. Kalekin, U. Katz, N. R. Khan-Chowdhury, A. Kouchner, I. Kreykenbohm, V. Kulikovskiy, R. Lahmann, R. Le Breton, D. Lefèvre, E. Leonora, G. Levi, M. Lincetto, D. Lopez-Coto, S. Loucatos, G. Maggi, J. Manczak, M. Marcelin, A. Margiotta, A. Marinelli, J. A. Martínez-Mora, R. Mele, K. Melis, P. Migliozzi, M. Moser, A. Moussa, R. Muller, L. Nauta, S. Navas, E. Nezri, C. Nielsen, A. Nuñez-Castiñeyra, B. O'Fearraigh, M. Organokov, G. E. Păvălaş, C. Pellegrino, M. Perrin-Terrin, P. Piattelli, C. Poirè, V. Popa, T. Pradier, N. Randazzo, S. Reck, G. Riccobene, A. Romanov, A. Sánchez-Losa, D. F. E. Samtleben, M. Sanguineti, P. Sapienza, J. Schnabe, F. Schüssler, M. Spurio, Th. Stolarczyk, B. Strandberg, M. Taiuti, Y. Tayalati, T. Thakore, S. J. Tingay, B. Vallage, V. Van Elewyck, F. Versari, S. Viola, D. Vivolo, J. Wilms, A. Zegarelli, J. D. Zornoza, J. Zúñiga
The ANTARES detector is an undersea neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. The search for point-like neutrino sources is one of the main goals of the ANTARES telescope, requiring a reliable method to evaluate the detector angular resolution and pointing accuracy. This work describes the study of the Sun "shadow" effect with the ANTARES detector. The shadow is the deficit in the atmospheric muon flux in the direction of the Sun caused by the absorption of the primary cosmic rays. This analysis is based on the data collected between 2008 and 2017 by the ANTARES telescope. The observed statistical significance of the Sun shadow detection is $3.7σ$, with an estimated angular resolution of $0.59^\circ\pm0.10^\circ$ for downward-going muons. The pointing accuracy is found to be consistent with the expectations and no evidence of systematic pointing shifts is observed.
Search for dark matter annihilation in the Sun using the full ANTARES dataset
Université de Strasbourg（斯特拉斯堡大学）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；Université de Haute Alsace（上阿尔萨斯大学）；IFIC - Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC - Universitat de València)（粒子物理混合研究所（瓦伦西亚大学与西班牙国家科学研究委员会））；Technical University of Catalonia（加泰罗尼亚理工大学）；Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics（应用生物声学实验室）；Institut d’Investigació per a la Gestió Integrada de les Zones Costaneres (IGIC) - Universitat Politècnica de València（海岸带综合管理研究所（巴伦西亚理工大学））；Aix Marseille Univ（艾克斯-马赛大学）；CNRS/IN2P3（法国国家科学研究中心/欧洲核子研究组织粒子物理国际网络）；CPPM（马赛普朗克理论物理中心）；Université Paris Cité（巴黎西岱大学）；Astroparticule et Cosmologie（天体粒子与宇宙学）；CNES（法国国家空间研究中心）；LAM（拉格朗日力学实验室）；National Center for Energy Sciences and Nuclear Techniques（国家能源科学与核技术研究中心）；INFN - Sezione di Bologna（意大利国家核物理研究所博洛尼亚分部）；Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università di Bologna（博洛尼亚大学物理与天文学系）
Simulation study of the cosmic ray Sun shadow with a time-dependent solar magnetic field model
Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院紫金山天文台）；School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学天文与空间科学学院）
Modeling the Effect of the Heliospheric Magnetic Field on Cosmic Ray Muon Shadows
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory（费米国家加速器实验室）；Iowa State University（爱荷华州立大学）；University of Cincinnati（辛辛那提大学）；University of Oxford（牛津大学）；Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge（剑桥大学卡文迪许实验室）；Lancaster University（兰卡斯特大学）；University of Texas at Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）；University of Wisconsin-Madison（威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校）；Universidade Federal de Goiás（戈亚斯联邦大学）；University of Manchester（曼彻斯特大学）；Tufts University（塔夫茨大学）
