KM3NeT - Research

Highlights during day-to-day KM3NeT research activities such as pitches for new papers, talks and posters during international conferences and (internal) workshops, comments on events in astroparticle physics and particle physics etc.





Search for non-standard neutrino interactions with ORCA6

29 November 2024 – In a new paper with the title ‘Search for  non-standard neutrino interactions with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA‘ we search for Non-Standard Interactions (NSI) by investigating distortions of the standard oscillation pattern of neutrinos of all flavours.

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Update of gSeaGen simulation software

23 November 2024 – In a new paper with the title ‘gSeaGen code by KM3NeT: an efficient tool to propagate muons simulated with CORSIKA’ we describe an open source solution for efficient simulation of cosmic-ray induced muons in neutrino telescopes.

For this, we adapted the gSeaGen code, which generates high statistic samples of simulated neutrino-induced events, detectable by neutrino telescopes.
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Astronomy potential of ARCA

22 November 2024 – In a paper with the title  ‘Astronomy potential of KM3NeT/ARCA’ we present improvements that indeed enhance the astronomy potential of the ARCA detector.

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First searches for Dark Matter

20 November 2024 – In a new paper with the title ‘First searches for Dark Matter with the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescopes’ we present limits for neutrino production by Dark Matter annihilation in the Sun and the Galactic Centre. For the analysis we used the data of early configurations of the ARCA and ORCA detectors of KM3NeT.

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Quantum decoherence with ORCA6

30 October 2024 – Search for quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillations with six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA

In a new paper we search for quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillations by looking for deviations of the standard neutrino oscillation pattern. We report upper limits on the decoherence parameters using data from ORCA6.

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Neutrino oscillations with ORCA6

29 October 2024 – Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA

In a new paper we show the potential of the ORCA detector: the measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters – with only 5% of ORCA’s final volume and during limited observation time – align with those from other experiments and are already becoming competitive.

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