The Antares neutrino detector

The Antares neutrino telescope, operating at 2.5 km depth in the Mediterranean Sea, 40km off the Toulon shore, represents the worlds largest operational underwater neutrino telescope, optimised for the detection of Cherenkov light produced by neutrino-induced muons. The neutrinos momentum is transferred to the muons allowing for reconstruction of the direction of the neutrino. The main goal of Antares is the search of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical point or transient sources. Antares has been taking data in its full 12 lines configuration since May 2008: in these Proceedings the description of the detector and its performances will be presented while first preliminary results on neutrino events will be discussed

The Antares neutrino detector

The Antares neutrino telescope, operating at 2.5 km depth in the Mediterranean Sea, 40km off the Toulon shore, represents the worlds largest operational underwater neutrino telescope, optimised for the detection of Cherenkov light produced by neutrino-induced muons. The neutrinos momentum is transferred to the muons allowing for reconstruction of the direction of the neutrino. The main goal of Antares is the search of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical point or transient sources. Antares has been taking data in its full 12 lines configuration since May 2008: in these Proceedings the description of the detector and its performances will be presented while first preliminary results on neutrino events will be discussed

The proton structure function F2 in the resonance region

Unique measurement of the proton structure function F2 in a wide two-dimensional region of x and Q**2 has been reported. The accessible kinematics covers entire resonance region up to W=2.5 GeV in the Q**2 interval from 0.1 to 4.5 GeV**2. Obtained data allowed for the first time an evaluation of moments of the structure function F2 directly from experimental data as well as an intensive study of the Bloom-Gilman duality phenomenon.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of GDH2002 Conference, 3-6 July 2002, Genova, Italy, to be published in World Scientifi

Quasi-elastic and inelastic inclusive electron scattering from an oxygen jet target

The results of an experiment on inclusive electron scattering from an oxygen jet target, performed in a wide range of energy and momentum transfer covering both quasi-elastic and $\Delta$(1232) resonance regions, are reported. In the former region the theoretical predictions, obtained including effects of nucleon-nucleon correlations in both initial and final states, give a good description of the experimental data. In the inelastic region a broadening as well as a damping of the resonant part of the cross section with respect to the free nucleon case is observed. The need of more detailed calculations including nuclear structure effects on the electroproduction cross section of nucleon resonances is highlighted.Comment: to appear in Nucl. Phys.

Comment on “Observation of a Narrow Structure in \u3csup\u3e1\u3c/sup\u3eH(γ,K\u3csub\u3eS\u3c/sub\u3e\u3csup\u3e0\u3c/sup\u3e)\u3cem\u3eX\u3c/em\u3e via Interference with \u3cem\u3eϕ\u3c/em\u3e-Meson Production”

In Ref. [1], the authors claim to observe a narrow structure in the mass spectrum constructed from the (pKL) system using data from the CLAS detector. The interpretation of this narrow structure given in Ref. [1] is as follows: “It may be due to the photoproduction of the Θ+pentaquark or some unknown Σ* resonance.” The authors go on to say that “it is unlikely for the observed structure to be due to a Σ* resonance.

Bloom-Gilman duality of inelastic structure functions in nucleon and nuclei

The Bloom-Gilman local duality of the inelastic structure function of the proton, the deuteron and light complex nuclei is investigated using available experimental data in the squared four-momentum transfer range from 0.3 to 5 (GeV/c)**2. The results of our analysis suggest that the onset of the Bloom-Gilman local duality is anticipated in complex nuclei with respect to the case of the protonand the deuteron. A possible interpretation of this result in terms of a rescaling effect is discussed with particular emphasis to the possibility of reproducing the damping of the nucleon-resonance transitions observed in recent electroproduction data off nuclei.Comment: revised version, to appear in Physical Review

Lepton-nucleus scattering in the impulse approximation regime

We discuss theoretical calculations of electron- and neutrino-nucleus scattering, carried out using realistic nuclear spectral functions and including the effect of final state interactions. Comparison between electron scattering data and the calculated inclusive cross sections off oxygen shows that the Fermi gas model fails to provide a satisfactory description of the measured cross sections, and inclusion of nuclear dynamics is needed. The role of Pauli blocking in charged-current neutrino induced reactions at low $Q^2$ is also analyzed.Comment: To be published in the Proceedings of NUFACT05 (Nucl. Phys. B, Proceedings Supplements

The Water Properties of the Site in Capo Passero using the LED Beacon of the Prototype Tower

In that work we study the scattering parameters of the water on the KM3Net site in Capo Passero. To this purpose we compare the real data from the time calibration runs of the detector to the results of a simulations of the light emission, propagation and detection according to the expeimental apparatus

Spin observables for pion photoproduction on the deuteron in the Δ\Delta(1232)-resonance region

Spin observables for the three charge states of the pion for the pion photoproduction reaction on the deuteron, $\gamma d\to\pi NN$, with polarized photon beam and/or oriented deuteron target are predicted. For the beam-target double-spin asymmetries, it is found that only the longitudinal asymmetries $T_{20}^{\ell}$ and $T_{2\pm 2}^{\ell}$ do not vanish, whereas all the circular and the other longitudinal asymmetries do vanish. The sensitivity of spin observables to the model deuteron wave function is investigated. It has been found that only $T_{21}$ and $T_{22}$ are sensitive to the model deuteron wave function, in particular in the case of $\pi^0$-production above the $\Delta$-region, and that other asymmetries are not.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phy