Promotiebericht
Nikhef, 22-04-2014
Search for cosmic neutrinos with ANTARES
Claudio Bogazzi, promovendus aan het Nikhef, verdedigt zijn proefschrift donderdag 15 mei 2014 aan de Universiteit van Leiden.
"The work presented in this thesis describes a search for point-like sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the ANTARES telescope.
The ANTARES detector is located at the bottom of the Mediterranean sea, 50 km off the French coast. It consists of 12 vertical lines equipped with photomultiplier tubes to detect the Cherenkov light emitted by relativistic muons created by the interaction of neutrinos with matter.
In a search for point-like sources of cosmic neutrinos the presence of an excess of signal is tested by looking for clusters of events coming from the same direction. The search was done via hypothesis testing, using a likelihood ratio approach. Two alternative searches were performed. In the full-sky search, the presence of an excess of signal events over the background was tested anywhere in the visible sky. In the candidate list search, we looked for an excess of events at the locations of 51 predefined candidate sources."
Claudio Bogazzi: Search for cosmic neutrinos with ANTARES (pdf)
De promotie vindt plaats op donderdag 15 mei, om 15.00 in het Academiegebouw van de Universiteit Leiden, Rapenburg 73, 2311 GJ, Leiden.
Promotor: Prof. dr. M. de Jong
Co promotor: Dr. A.J. Heijboer
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