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Recently, evidence for an association between high energy neutrinos detected by IceCube and radio-selected blazars has been found by Plavin et al.(2020, 2021). This result was achieved using an all sky complete sample of 3411 blazars selected on their parsec-scale flux density at 8 GHz higher than 150 mJy. We perform a positional correlation...

The presented study is an updated search for magnetic monopoles using data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope over a period of 10 years (January 2008 to December 2017). In accordance with some grand unification theories, magnetic monopoles were created during the phase of symmetry breaking in the early Universe, and accelerated by...

The ANTARES neutrino telescope is operating in the Mediterranean Sea in its full configuration since 2008. On their journey to the Earth, cosmic rays (CRs) can be absorbed by celestial objects, like the Sun, leading to a deficit in atmospheric muons produced by CR interactions from the solid angle region covered by the Sun, the so-called Sun...

Addressing the origin of the observed diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux is one of the main challenges in the context of the neutrino astronomy nowadays. Among several astrophysical sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are considered interesting candidates to be explored. Indeed, being the most powerful explosions observable in the Universe, they...

This work presents a new search for magnetic monopoles using data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope over a period of 10 years (January 2008 to December 2017). Compared to previous ANTARES searches, this analysis uses a run-by-run simulation strategy, with a larger exposure as well as a new simulation of magnetic monopoles taking into...

The previous analysis of the ANTARES all-flavour 12-year neutrino data sample provided the observation of an excess of events, at the highest energies, above the expected atmospheric foregrounds. This excess, even though mild (1.8σ), has been found to be consistent in spectral slope and normalisation with the high-energy diffuse cosmic neutrino...

By constantly monitoring a very large portion of the sky, neutrino telescopes are well-designed to detect neutrinos emitted by transient astrophysical events. Real-time searches with the ANTARES telescope have been performed to look for neutrino candidates coincident with gamma-ray bursts detected by the Swift and Fermi satellites, high-energy...

The main goal of the ANTARES neutrino telescope is the identification of neutrinos from astrophysical sources. Thanks to its location in the Northern hemisphere, ANTARES can rely on an advantageous view of the Southern Sky, in particular for neutrino energies below 100 TeV. This feature, combined with a very good angular resolution for...

Searches for dark matter (DM) have not provided any solid evidence for the existence of weakly interacting massive particles in the GeV-TeV mass range. Coincidentally, the scale of new physics is being pushed by collider searches well beyond the TeV domain. This situation strongly motivates the exploration of DM masses much larger than a TeV....

ANTARES is a Cherenkov underwater neutrino telescope operating in the Mediterranean. Its construction was completed in 2008. Even though optimised for the search of cosmic neutrinos, this telescope is also sensitive to nuclearites (massive nuggets of strange quark matter [1]) trough the black body radiation emitted along their path [2]. We...

The ANTARES neutrino telescope was operational in the Mediterranean Sea from 2006 to 2022. The detector array, consisting of 12 vertical string-like structures hosting a total of 885 optical modules, was designed to detect high-energy neutrinos covering energies from a few tens of GeV up to the PeV range. Despite the relatively small size of...

The interaction of cosmic-rays with the solar atmosphere can yield neutrinos as final state particles, the so-called Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos (SAυs). Most of these neutrinos are absorbed in the interior of the Sun. Neutrinos produced in the solar corona towards the Earth would escape the Sun and reach the Earth. The detection of the solar...

Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos (SAνs) are produced by the interaction of cosmic rays with the solar medium. The detection of SAνs would provide useful information on the composition of primary cosmic rays as well as the solar density. These neutrinos represent an irreducible source of background for indirect searches for dark matter towards the...

In 2017, a high-energy muon neutrino detected by IceCube was found positionally coincident with the direction of a known blazar, TXS 0506+056, in a state of enhanced γ-ray emission. Soon after, IceCube reported a compelling evidence for an earlier neutrino flare from the same direction found in the archival data, this time not accompanied by...

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 particular interest is the possibility to direct a neutrino beam from Protvino towards the KM3NeT/ORCA detector, which is currently under construction in the...