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Review of Particle Physics
The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 3,062
new measurements from 721 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the
recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We summarize searches for hypothetical
particles such as supersymmetric particles, heavy bosons, axions, dark photons, etc. All the particle properties and
search limits are listed in Summary Tables. We also give numerous tables, figures, formulae, and reviews of topics
such as Higgs Boson Physics, Supersymmetry, Grand Unified Theories, Neutrino Mixing, Dark Energy, Dark Matter,
Cosmology, Particle Detectors, Colliders, Probability and Statistics. Among the 117 reviews are many that are new
or heavily revised, including new reviews on Pentaquarks and Inflation.
The complete Review is published online in a journal and on the website of the Particle Data Group
(http://pdg.lbl.gov). The printed PDG Book contains the Summary Tables and all review articles but no longer
includes the detailed tables from the Particle Listings. A Booklet with the Summary Tables and abbreviated versions
of some of the review articles is also available.The publication of the Review of Particle Physics is supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics of the
U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE–AC02–05CH11231; by the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN); by an
implementing arrangement between the governments of Japan (MEXT: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) and
the United States (DOE) on cooperative research and development; by the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and
by the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN).The authors are grateful to Vincent Vennin for his careful reading
of this manuscript and preparing Fig. 23.3 for this review. The work
of J.E. was supported in part by the London Centre for Terauniverse
Studies (LCTS), using funding from the European Research Council
via the Advanced Investigator Grant 267352 and from the UK
STFC via the research grant ST/L000326/1. The work of D.W. was
supported in part by the UK STFC research grant ST/K00090X/1
Review of Particle Physics
The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 2,143
new measurements from 709 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the
recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We summarize searches for hypothetical
particles such as supersymmetric particles, heavy bosons, axions, dark photons, etc. Particle properties and search
limits are listed in Summary Tables. We give numerous tables, figures, formulae, and reviews of topics such as Higgs
Boson Physics, Supersymmetry, Grand Unified Theories, Neutrino Mixing, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Cosmology,
Particle Detectors, Colliders, Probability and Statistics. Among the 120 reviews are many that are new or heavily
revised, including a new review on Machine Learning, and one on Spectroscopy of Light Meson Resonances.
The Review is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 includes the Summary Tables and 97 review articles. Volume
2 consists of the Particle Listings and contains also 23 reviews that address specific aspects of the data presented
in the Listings.
The complete Review (both volumes) is published online on the website of the Particle Data Group (pdg.lbl.gov)
and in a journal. Volume 1 is available in print as the PDG Book. A Particle Physics Booklet with the Summary
Tables and essential tables, figures, and equations from selected review articles is available in print, as a web version
optimized for use on phones, and as an Android app.United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-05CH11231government of Japan (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)Physical Society of Japan (JPS)European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN)United States Department of Energy (DOE
Review of the online analyses of multi-messenger alerts and electromagnetic transient events with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
https://inspirehep.net/literature/2182044The authors acknowledge the financial support of the funding agencies: Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies
alternatives (CEA), Commission Européenne (FEDER fund and Marie Curie Program),
LabEx UnivEarthS (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-18-IDEX-0001), Région Alsace (contrat CPER), Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Département du Var and Ville de La Seynesur-Mer, France; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany; Istituto
Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy; Nederlandse organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk
Onderzoek (NWO), the Netherlands; Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI), Romania; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación: Programa Estatal para Impulsar la Investigación CientÃfico-Técnica y su Transferencia (refs. PID2021-124591NB-C41, -C42, -C43) (MCIU/FEDER), Programa de Planes
Complementarios I+D+I (refs. ASFAE/2022/023, ASFAE/2022/014) and Programa MarÃa
Zambrano (Spanish Ministry of Universities, funded by the European Union, NextGenerationEU), Generalitat Valenciana: Prometeo (PROMETEO/2020/019), and GenT (refs.
CIDEGENT/2018/034, /2019/043, /2020/049. /2021/23) programs, Junta de AndalucÃa
(ref. SOMM17/6104/UGR, P18-FR-5057), EU: MSC program (ref. 101025085), Spain; Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Morocco, and the Arab Fund
for Economic and Social Development, Kuwait. We also acknowledge the technical support of
Ifremer, AIM and Foselev Marine for the sea operation and the CC-IN2P3 for the computing
facilities.By constantly monitoring at least one complete hemisphere 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 neutrino events registered by IceCube, transient events from blazars monitored by
HAWC, photon-neutrino coincidences by AMON notices and gravitational wave candidates
observed by LIGO/Virgo. By requiring temporal coincidence, this approach increases the
sensitivity and the significance of a potential discovery. Thanks to the good angular accuracy
of neutrino candidates reconstructed with the ANTARES telescope, a coincident detection
can also improve the positioning area of non-well localised triggers such as those detected
by gravitational wave interferometers. This paper summarises the results of the follow-up
performed by the ANTARES telescope between 01/2014 and 02/2022, which corresponds to
the end of the data taking period.Commission Européenne FEDER fundMarie Curie ProgramMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación: PID2021-124591NB-C41, -C42, -C43Programa de Planes
Complementarios I+D+I (refs. ASFAE/2022/023, ASFAE/2022/014)European Union, NextGenerationEUPrograma MarÃa
ZambranoGeneralitat Valenciana: PROMETEO/2020/019; GenT CIDEGENT/2018/034, /2019/043, /2020/049, /2021/23Junta de AndalucÃa
(ref. SOMM17/6104/UGR, P18-FR-5057)EU: MSC program (ref. 101025085), Spai
Science with Neutrino Telescopes in Spain
The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding support from the following Spanish programs: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion, Investigacion y Universidades (MCIU): Programa Estatal de Generacion de Conocimiento (refs. PGC2018-096663-B-C41, -A-C42, -B-C43, -B-C44) (MCIU/FEDER); Generalitat Valenciana: Prometeo (PROMETEO/2020/019) and GenT (refs. CIDEGENT/2018/034, /2020/049, /2021/023); Junta de Andalucia (ref. A-FQM-053-UGR18).The primary scientific goal of neutrino telescopes is the detection and study of cosmic
neutrino signals. However, the range of physics topics that these instruments can tackle is exceedingly
wide and diverse. Neutrinos coming from outside the Earth, in association with othermessengers, can
contribute to clarify the question of the mechanisms that power the astrophysical accelerators which
are known to exist from the observation of high-energy cosmic and gamma rays. Cosmic neutrinos
can also be used to bring relevant information about the nature of dark matter, to study the intrinsic
properties of neutrinos and to look for physics beyond the Standard Model. Likewise, atmospheric
neutrinos can be used to study an ample variety of particle physics issues, such as neutrino oscillation
phenomena, the determination of the neutrino mass ordering, non-standard neutrino interactions,
neutrino decays and a diversity of other physics topics. In this article, we review a selected number
of these topics, chosen on the basis of their scientific relevance and the involvement in their study of
the Spanish physics community working in the KM3NeT and ANTARES neutrino telescopes.Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion, Investigacion y Universidades (MCIU) PGC2018-096663-B-C41
A-C42
B-C43
B-C44MCIU/FEDERGeneralitat Valenciana PROMETEO/2020/019GenT CIDEGENT/2018/034
2020/049
2021/023Junta de Andalucia A-FQM-053-UGR1
Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era—A review
The exploration of the universe has recently entered a new era thanks to the multimessenger
paradigm, characterized by a continuous increase in the quantity and quality
of experimental data that is obtained by the detection of the various cosmic messengers
(photons, neutrinos, cosmic rays and gravitational waves) from numerous origins. They
give us information about their sources in the universe and the properties of the
intergalactic medium. Moreover, multi-messenger astronomy opens up the possibility to
search for phenomenological signatures of quantum gravity. On the one hand, the most
energetic events allow us to test our physical theories at energy regimes which are not
directly accessible in accelerators; on the other hand, tiny effects in the propagation of
very high energy particles could be amplified by cosmological distances. After decades
of merely theoretical investigations, the possibility of obtaining phenomenological indications
of Planck-scale effects is a revolutionary step in the quest for a quantum theory
of gravity, but it requires cooperation between different communities of physicists
(both theoretical and experimental). This review, prepared within the COST Action
CA18108 ‘‘Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach", is aimed
at promoting this cooperation by giving a state-of-the art account of the interdisciplinary
expertise that is needed in the effective search of quantum gravity footprints in the
production, propagation and detection of cosmic messengers.Talent Scientific Research Program of College of Physics, Sichuan University 1082204112427Fostering Program in Disciplines Possessing Novel Features for Natural Science of Sichuan University 2020SCUNL2091000 Talent program of Sichuan province 2021Xunta de GaliciaEuropean Commission
European Union ERDF, "Maria de Maeztu'' Units of Excellence program MDM-2016-0692Red Tematica Nacional de Astroparticulas RED2018-102661-TLa Caixa Foundation 100010434European Commission 847648
LCF/BQ/PI21/11830030
754510Ministry of Education, Science & Technological Development, Serbia 451-03-9/2021-14/200124FSR Incoming Postdoctoral Fellowship Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Serbia 451-03-9/2021-14/200124University of Rijeka grant uniri-prirod-18-48Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) IP-2016-06-9782Villum Fonden 29405
DGA-FSE 2020-E2117REuropean Regional Development Fund through the Center of Excellence (TK133) "The Dark Side of the Universe''
European Regional Development Fund (ESIF/ERDF)Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports - Czech Republic CoGraDS-CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15 003/0000437Blavatnik grantBasque Government IT-97916
Basque Foundation for Science (IKERBASQUE)European Space Agency C4000120711
4000132310FNRS (Belgian Fund for Research)Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigacion e Innovacion Tecnologica (PAPIIT)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico TA100122National University of La Plata X909
DICYT 042131GRNational Research, Development & Innovation Office (NRDIO) - Hungary 123996FQXiSwiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)European Commission 181461
199307Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) 680-91-119
15MV71Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT)
Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceGrants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) 20H01899
20H05853
JP21F21789Estonian Research Council PRG356Julian Schwinger FoundationGeneralitat Valenciana Excellence PROMETEO-II/2017/033
PROMETEO/2018/165Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)European ITN project HIDDeN H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019//860881-HIDDeNSwedish Research CouncilEuropean Commission 2016-05996
European Research Council (ERC)
European Commission 668679Advanced ERC grant TReXMinistry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) 2017X7X85KFonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS 4.4501.18Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization - Romania PN19-030102-INCDFM
PN-III-P4ID-PCE-2020-2374United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0020262Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, Republic of Korea 075-15-2020-778German Academic Scholarship Foundation
German Research Foundation (DFG) 408049454
420243324
425333893
445990517
Germany's Excellence Strategy (EXC 2121 "Quantum Universe'') 390833306
390837967
Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF) 05 A20GU2
05 A20PX1Centro de Excelencia "Severo Ochoa'' SEV-2016-0588CERCA program of the Generalitat de CatalunyaAgencia de Gestio D'Ajuts Universitaris de Recerca Agaur (AGAUR)
Generalitat de Catalunya 2017-SGR-1469
2017-SGR-929
ICCUB CEX2019-000918-MNational Science Centre, Poland 2019/33/B/ST2/00050
2017/27/B/ST2/01902Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ) 306414/2020-1Dicyt-USACH 041931MFNational Science Fund of Bulgaria KP-06-N 38/11
RCN ROMFORSK 302640Comunidad de Madrid 2018-T1/TIC-10431
2019-T1/TIC-13177
S2018/NMT-4291UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) ST/T000759/1
ST/P000258/1
ST/T000732/1
ST/V005596/1Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology UIDB/00618/2020
UIDB/00777/2020
UIDP/00777/2020
CERN/FIS-PAR/0004/2019
PTDC/FIS-PAR/29436/2017
PTDC/FISPAR/31938/2017
PTDC/FIS-OUT/29048/2017
SFRH/BD/137127/2018Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LabEx UnivEarthS ANR-10-LABX-0023
ANR18-IDEX-0001Junta de Andalucia
European Commission A-FQM-053-UGR18Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) RGPIN-2021-03644National Science Centre Poland Sonata Bis 2019/33/B/ST2/00050
DEC-2017/26/E/ST2/00763Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
DGIID-DGA 2015-E24/2Spanish Research State Agency and Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion MCIN/AEI PID2019-104114RB-C32
PID2019-105544GB-I00
PID2019-105614GB-C21
PID2019106515GB-I00
PID2019-106802GB-I00
PID2019-107394GB-I00
PID2019-107844GB-C21
PID2019-107847RB-C41
MCIN/AEI PGC2018-095328-B-I00
PGC2018-094856-B-I00
PGC2018-096663-B-C41
PGC2018-096663-B-C44
PGC2018-094626-BC21
PGC2018-101858-B-I00
FPA2017-84543-P
FPA2016-76005-C2-1-PSpanish 'Ministerio de Universidades' BG20/00228
Spanish Government PID2020-115845GBI00
Generalitat de Catalunya
Comunidad de Madrid S2018/NMT-4291
Spanish Government PID2019-105544GB-I00Perimeter Institute for Theoretical PhysicsGovernment of Canada through the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic DevelopmentProvince of Ontario through the Ministry of Colleges and UniversitiesIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)Fundamental Questions Institute (FQXi)European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) CA18108Research Council of University of GuilanIniziativa Specifica TEONGRAV
Iniziativa Specifica QGSKY
Iniziativa Specifica QUAGRAP
Iniziativa Specifica GeoSymQFTthe Spanish Research State Agency and Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion MCIN/AEI PID2020-115845GBI00
PID2019-108485GB-I00
PID2020-113334GB-I00
PID2020-113701GB-I00
PID2020-113775GB-I00
PID2020-118159GB-C41
PID2020-118159GA-C42
PRE2019-089024Rothchild grant
UID/MAT/00212/2020
FPU18/0457
Hint for aTeV neutrino emission from the Galactic Ridge with ANTARES
Interactions of cosmic ray protons, atomic nuclei, and electrons in the interstellar medium in the inner part of the Milky Way produce a γ-ray flux from the Galactic Ridge. If the γ-ray emission is dominated by proton and nuclei interactions, a neutrino flux comparable to the γ-ray flux is expected from the same sky region.
Data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope are used to constrain the neutrino flux from the Galactic Ridge in the 1-100 TeV energy range. Neutrino events reconstructed both as tracks and showers are considered in the analysis and the selection is optimized for the search of an excess in the region |l| <30◦, |b| <2◦. The expected background in the search region is estimated using an off-zone region with similar sky coverage. Neutrino signal originating from a power-law spectrum with spectral index ranging from ν=1to 4is simulated in both channels. The observed energy distributions are fitted to constrain the neutrino emission from the Ridge.
The energy distributions in the signal region are inconsistent with the background expectation at ∼96%confidence level. The mild excess over the background is consistent with a neutrino flux with a power law with a spectral index 2.45+0.22−0.34and a flux normalization dNνdEν=4.0+2.7−2.0×10−16GeV−1cm−2s−1sr−1at 40 TeV reference energy. Such flux is consistent with the expected neutrino signal if the bulk of the observed γ-ray flux from the Galactic Ridge originates from interactions of cosmic ray protons and nuclei with a power-law spectrum extending well into the PeV energy rangeCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)French Atomic Energy CommissionMarie Curie Actions
European Union (EU)Labex UnivEarthSRegion Grand-EstRegion Provence-Alpes-Cpte d'AzurRegion Provence-Alpes-Cote d'AzurFederal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF)Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)European Union (EU)Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
Netherlands GovernmentConsiliul National al Cercetarii Stiintifice (CNCS)
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii (UEFISCDI) ANR-10-LABX-0023
ANR-18-IDEX-0001MCIN/AEIERDF A way of making Europe"European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR", Programa de Planes Complementarios I+D+IPrograma PrometeoPrograma PrometeoGenT of the Generalitat ValencianaJunta de Andalucia 754496EU: MSC programPrograma Maria Zambrano (Spanish Ministry of Universities by the European Union, NextGenerationEU), SpainMinistry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Training, Morocco PID2021-124591NB-C41
PID2021-124591NB-C42
PID2021-124591NB-C43Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
ASFAE/2022/023
ASFAE/2022/014
PROMETEO/2020/019
GENT/2018/034
GENT/2019/043
GENT/2020/049
GENT/2021/23
P18-FR-5057
10102508
Search for secluded dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
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. Secluded
scenarios contain a natural way around the unitarity bound on the DM mass, via the early
matter domination induced by the mediator of its interactions with the Standard Model.
High-energy neutrinos constitute one of the very few direct accesses to energy scales above a
few TeV. An indirect search for secluded DM signals has been performed with the ANTARES
neutrino telescope using data from 2007 to 2015. Upper limits on the DM annihilation cross
section for DM masses up to 6PeV are presented and discussed.Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
(CEA), Commission Européenne (FEDER fund and Marie Curie Program), Institut
Universitaire de France (IUF)LabEx UnivEarthS (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-18-IDEX-
0001), Région Île-de-France (DIM-ACAV), Région Alsace (contrat CPER), Région Provence-
Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Département du Var and Ville de La Seyne-sur-Mer, FranceBundesministerium
für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), GermanyIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
(INFN), ItalyNederlandse organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO),
The NetherlandsExecutive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development
and Innovation (UEFISCDI), RomaniaMinisterio de Ciencia, Innovación, Investigación y
Universidades (MCIU): Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento (refs. PGC2018-
096663-B-C41, -A-C42, -B-C43, -B-C44) (MCIU/FEDER), Generalitat Valenciana: Prometeo
(PROMETEO/2020/019), GrisolÃa (refs. GRISOLIA/2018/119, /2021/192) and GenT
(refs. CIDEGENT/2018/034, /2019/043, /2020/049, /2021/023) programs, Junta de AndalucÃa
(ref. A-FQM-053-UGR18), La Caixa Foundation (ref. LCF/BQ/IN17/ 11620019),
EU: MSC program (ref. 101025085), SpainMinistry of Higher Education, Scientific Research
and Innovation, MoroccoArab Fund for Economic and Social Development,
KuwaitIfremer, AIM and Foselev MarineInitiative Physique des Infinis (IPI), Sorbonne Université
Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the funding agencies: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA), Commission Europeenne (FEDER fund and Marie Curie Program), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), LabEx UnivEarthS (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-18-IDEX-0001), Region Ile-de-France (DIM-ACAV), Region Alsace (contrat CPER), Region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Departement du Var and Ville de La Seyne-sur-Mer, France; Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy; Nederlandse organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), the Netherlands; Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI), Romania; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion, Investigacion y Universidades (MCIU): Programa Estatal de Generacion de Conocimiento (refs. PGC2018-096663-B-C41,-A-C42, -B-C43, -B-C44 and refs. PID2021-124591NB-C41, -C42, -C43) (MCIU/FEDER), Generalitat Valenciana: Prometeo (PROMETEO/2020/019), Grisolia (refs. GRISOLIA/2018/119,/2021/192) and GenT (refs. CIDEGENT/2018/034,/2019/043,/2020/049,/2021/023) programs, Junta de Andalucia (ref. A-FQM-053-UGR18), La Caixa Foundation (ref. LCF/BQ/IN17/11620019), EU: MSC program (ref. 101025085), Spain; Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Morocco, and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Kuwait. We also acknowledge the technical support of Ifremer, AIM and Foselev Marine for the sea operation and the CC-IN2P3 for the computing facilities.In this work, a search for nuclearites of strange quark matter by using nine years of
ANTARES data taken in the period 2009-2017 is presented. The passage through
matter of these particles is simulated taking into account a detailed description of
the detector response to nuclearites and of the data acquisition conditions. A down-
going flux of cosmic nuclearites with Galactic velocities (β = 10−3) was considered
for this study. The mass threshold for detecting these particles at the detector level is
4 × 1013 GeV/c2. Upper limits on the nuclearite flux for masses up to 1017 GeV/c2
at the level of ∼ 5 × 10−17 cm−2 s−1 sr−1 are obtained. These are the first upper
limits on nuclearites established with a neutrino telescope and the most stringent
ever set for Galactic velocities.Commission Europeenne (FEDER fund)Marie Curie Actions
European Union (EU)Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación, Investigación y Universidades (MCIU): Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento PGC2018-096663-B-C41, PGC2018-096663-A-C42,
PGC2018-096663-B-C43,
PGC2018-096663-B-C44,
PID2021-124591NB-C41,
PID2021-124591NB-C42,
PID2021-124591NB-C43Center for Forestry Research & Experimentation (CIEF)
PROMETEO/2020/019,
GRISOLIA/2018/119,
GRISOLIA/2021/192,
CIDEGENT/2018/034,
CIDEGENT/2019/043,
CIDEGENT/2020/049,
CIDEGENT/2021/023Junta de AndalucÃa
A-FQM-053-UGR18La Caixa Foundation
LCF/BQ/IN17/11620019EU: MSC program, Spain
10102508
Search for non-standard neutrino interactions with 10 years of ANTARES data
Non-standard interactions of neutrinos arising in many theories beyond the Standard Model can significantly alter matter effects in atmospheric neutrino propagation through the Earth. In this paper, a search for deviations from the prediction of the standard 3-flavour atmospheric neutrino oscillations using the data taken by the ANTARES neutrino telescope is presented. Ten years of atmospheric neutrino data collected from 2007 to 2016, with reconstructed energies in the range from similar to 16 GeV to 100 GeV, have been analysed. A log-likelihood ratio test of the dimensionless coefficients epsilon(mu tau) and epsilon(tau tau) - epsilon(mu mu) does not provide clear evidence of deviations from standard interactions. For normal neutrino mass ordering, the combined fit of both coefficients yields a value 1.7 sigma away from the null result. However, the 68% and 95% confidence level intervals for epsilon(mu tau) and epsilon(tau tau) - epsilon(mu mu), respectively, contain the null value. Best fit values, one standard deviation errors and bounds at the 90% confidence level for these coefficients are given for both normal and inverted mass orderings. The constraint on epsilon(mu tau) is among the most stringent to date and it further restrains the strength of possible non-standard interactions in the mu - tau sector.Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)French Atomic Energy CommissionCommission Europeenne (FEDER fund)Commission Europeenne (Marie Curie Program)Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)LabEx UnivEarthS ANR-10-LABX-0023
ANR-18-IDEX-0001Region Ile-de-France
Region Grand-Est
Region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'AzurFederal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF)Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
Netherlands GovernmentCouncil of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and leading scientific schools supporting grants, RussiaConsiliul National al Cercetarii Stiintifice (CNCS)Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii (UEFISCDI)Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion, Investigacion y Universidades (MCIU): Programa Estatal de Generacion de Conocimiento PGC2018-096663-B-C41
PGC2018-096663-A-C42
PGC2018-096663-B-C43
PGC2018-096663-B-C44Center for Forestry Research & Experimentation (CIEF)European Commission PROMETEO/2020/019
GRISOLIA/2018/119,/2021/192
CIDEGENT/2018/034,/2019/043,/2020/049,/2021/023Junta de Andalucia A-FQM-053-UGR18
tLa Caixa Foundation LCF/BQ/IN17/11620019EU: MSC program, Spain 101025085Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, MoroccoArab Fund for Economic and Social Developme
Studying bioluminescence flashes with the ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope
We thank our colleagues of the Information Field Theory Group who provided insight and expertise on the NIFTy framework and Statistical Inference. We would also like to show our gratitude to Thomas Eberl for sharing his expertise on the ANTARES experiment and the data set. SH acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 772663). The authors acknowledge the financial support of the funding agencies: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Commission Européenne (FEDER fund and Marie Curie Program), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), LabEx UnivEarthS (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-18-IDEX-0001), Région ÃŽle-de-France (DIM-ACAV), Région Alsace (contrat CPER), Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Département du Var and Ville de La Seyne-sur-Mer, France; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy; Nederlandse organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), the Netherlands; Council of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and leading scientific schools supporting grants, Russia; Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI), Romania; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación, Investigación y Universidades (MCIU): Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento (refs. PGC2018-096663-B-C41, PGC2018-096663-A-C42, PGC2018-096663-B-C43, PGC2018-096663-B-C44) (MCIU/FEDER), Generalitat Valenciana: Prometeo (PROMETEO/2020/019), GrisolÃa (ref. GRISOLIA/2018/119), and GenT (refs. CIDEGENT/2018/034, CIDEGENT//2019/043, CIDEGENT//2020/049) programs, Junta de AndalucÃa (ref. A-FQM-053-UGR18), La Caixa Foundation (ref. LCF/BQ/IN17/11620019), EU: MSC program (ref. 101025085), Spain; Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Professional Training, Morocco. We also acknowledge the technical support of Ifremer, AIM, and Foselev Marine for the sea operation and the CC-IN2P3 for the computing facilities. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.We develop a novel technique to exploit the extensive data sets provided by underwater neutrino telescopes to gain information on bioluminescence in the deep sea. The passive nature of the telescopes gives us the unique opportunity to infer information on bioluminescent organisms without actively interfering with them. We propose a statistical method that allows us to reconstruct the light emission of individual organisms, as well as their location and movement. A mathematical model is built to describe the measurement process of underwater neutrino telescopes and the signal generation of the biological organisms. The Metric Gaussian Variational Inference algorithm is used to reconstruct the model parameters using photon counts recorded by photomultiplier tubes. We apply this method to synthetic data sets and data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The telescope is located 40 km off the French coast and fixed to the sea floor at a depth of 2475 m. The runs with synthetic data reveal that we can model the emitted bioluminescent flashes of the organisms. Furthermore, we find that the spatial resolution of the localization of light sources highly depends on the configuration of the telescope. Precise measurements of the efficiencies of the detectors and the attenuation length of the water are crucial to reconstruct the light emission. Finally, the application to ANTARES data reveals the first localizations of bioluminescent organisms using neutrino telescope data.European Research Council (ERC)Commission EuropeenneMinisterio de Ciencia, Innovación, Investigación y Universidades (MCIU)European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program 772663FEDERMarie Curie ProgramPrograma Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento PGC2018-096663-B-C41, PGC2018-096663-A-C42, PGC2018-096663-B-C43, PGC2018-096663-B-C44 (MCIU/FEDER)Generalitat Valenciana: Prometeo (PROMETEO/2020/019), GrisolÃa (ref. GRISOLIA/2018/119), GenT (refs. CIDEGENT/2018/034, CIDEGENT//2019/043, CIDEGENT//2020/049)Junta de AndalucÃa (ref. A-FQM-053-UGR18)La Caixa Foundation (ref. LCF/BQ/IN17/11620019)EU: MSC program (ref. 101025085), Spai