The cosmic ray shadow of the Moon observed with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

A. Albert (Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, 67000, France) ; M. André (Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Technical University of Catalonia, Rambla Exposició, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, 08800, Spain) ; M. Anghinolfi (INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, Genova, 16146, Italy) ; G. Anton (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, Erlangen, Germany) ; M. Ardid (Institut d’Investigació per a la Gestió Integrada de les Zones Costaneres (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València. C/ Paranimf 1, Gandia, 46730, Spain) ; et al. - Show all 127 authors

One of the main objectives of the ANTARES telescope is the search for point-like neutrino sources. Both the pointing accuracy and the angular resolution of the detector are important in this context and a reliable way to evaluate this performance is needed. In order to measure the pointing accuracy of the detector, one possibility is to study the shadow of the Moon, i.e. the deficit of the atmospheric muon flux from the direction of the Moon induced by the absorption of cosmic rays. Analysing the data taken between 2007 and 2016, the Moon shadow is observed with $$3.5\sigma $$ 3.5σ statistical significance. The detector angular resolution for downward-going muons is $$0.73^{\circ }\pm 0.14^{\circ }.$$ 0.73±0.14. The resulting pointing performance is consistent with the expectations. An independent check of the telescope pointing accuracy is realised with the data collected by a shower array detector onboard of a ship temporarily moving around the ANTARES location.

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Published on:
11 December 2018
Publisher:
Springer
Published in:
European Physical Journal C , Volume 78 (2019)
Issue 12
Pages 1-9
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6451-3
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CC-BY-4.0

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