A search for neutrino emission from the Fermi bubbles with the ANTARES telescope

S. Adrián-Martínez; A. Albert; I. Al Samarai; M. André; G. Anton; S. Anvar; M. Ardid; T. Astraatmadja; J.-J. Aubert; B. Baret; J. Barrios-Martí; S. Basa; V. Bertin; S. Biagi; C. Bigongiari; C. Bogazzi; B. Bouhou; M. C. Bouwhuis; J. Brunner; J. Busto; A. Capone; L. Caramete; C. Cârloganu; J. Carr; S. Cecchini; Z. Charif; Ph. Charvis; T. Chiarusi; M. Circella; F. Classen; R. Coniglione; L. Core; H. Costantini; P. Coyle; A. Creusot; C. Curtil; G. De Bonis; I. Dekeyser; A. Deschamps; C. Donzaud; D. Dornic; Q. Dorosti; D. Drouhin; A. Dumas; T. Eberl; U. Emanuele; A. Enzenhöfer; J.-P. Ernenwein; S. Escoffier; K. Fehn; P. Fermani; V. Flaminio; F. Folger; U. Fritsch; L. A. Fusco; S. Galatà; P. Gay; S. Geißelsöder; K. Geyer; G. Giacomelli; V. Giordano; A. Gleixner; J. P. Gómez-González; K. Graf; G. Guillard; H. van Haren; A. J. Heijboer; Y. Hello; J. J. Hernández-Rey; B. Herold; J. Hößl; C. Hugon; C. W. James; M. de Jong; M. Kadler; O. Kalekin; A. Kappes; U. Katz; P. Kooijman; A. Kouchner; I. Kreykenbohm; V. Kulikovskiy; R. Lahmann; E. Lambard; G. Lambard; G. Larosa; D. Lattuada; D. Lefèvre; E. Leonora; D. Lo Presti; H. Loehner; S. Loucatos; F. Louis; S. Mangano; M. Marcelin; A. Margiotta; J. A. Martínez-Mora; S. Martini; T. Michael; T. Montaruli; M. Morganti; C. Müller; M. Neff; E. Nezri; D. Palioselitis; G. E. Păvălaş; C. Perrina; V. Popa; T. Pradier; C. Racca; G. Riccobene; R. Richter; C. Rivière; A. Robert; K. Roensch; A. Rostovtsev; D. F. E. Samtleben; M. Sanguineti; P. Sapienza; J. Schmid; J. Schnabel; S. Schulte; F. Schüssler; T. Seitz; R. Shanidze; C. Sieger; F. Simeone; A. Spies; M. Spurio; J. J. M. Steijger; Th. Stolarczyk; A. Sánchez-Losa; M. Taiuti; C. Tamburini; Y. Tayalati; A. Trovato; B. Vallage; C. Vallée; V. Van Elewyck; M. Vecchi; P. Vernin; E. Visser; S. Wagner; J. Wilms; E. de Wolf; K. Yatkin; H. Yepes; J. D. Zornoza; J. Zúñiga

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2701-6

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Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74: 2701
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2701-6

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

A search for neutrino emission from the Fermi bubbles with the ANTARES telescope

The ANTARES Collaboration
S. Adrián-Martínez¹, A. Albert², I. Al Samarai³, M. André⁴, G. Anton⁶, S. Anvar⁷, M. Ardid¹, T. Astraatmadja⁸, J.-J. Aubert³, B. Baret⁹, J. Barrios-Martí¹⁰, S. Basa¹¹, V. Bertin³, S. Biagi¹²^,13, C. Bigongiari¹⁰, C. Bogazzi⁸, B. Bouhou⁹, M. C. Bouwhuis¹⁰, J. Brunner³, J. Busto³, A. Capone¹⁴^,15, L. Caramete¹⁶, C. Cârloganu¹⁷, J. Carr³, S. Cecchini¹², Z. Charif³, Ph. Charvis¹⁸, T. Chiarusi¹², M. Circella¹⁹, F. Classen⁶, R. Coniglione²⁰, L. Core³, H. Costantini³, P. Coyle³, A. Creusot⁹, C. Curtil³, G. De Bonis¹⁴^,15, I. Dekeyser²¹^,22, A. Deschamps¹⁸, C. Donzaud⁹^,23, D. Dornic³, Q. Dorosti²⁴, D. Drouhin², A. Dumas¹⁷, T. Eberl⁶, U. Emanuele¹⁰, A. Enzenhöfer⁶, J.-P. Ernenwein³, S. Escoffier³, K. Fehn⁶, P. Fermani¹⁴^,15, V. Flaminio²⁵^,26, F. Folger⁶, U. Fritsch⁶, L. A. Fusco¹²^,13, S. Galatà⁹, P. Gay¹⁷, S. Geißelsöder⁶, K. Geyer⁶, G. Giacomelli¹²^,13, V. Giordano³³, A. Gleixner⁶, J. P. Gómez-González¹⁰, K. Graf⁶, G. Guillard¹⁷, H. van Haren²⁷, A. J. Heijboer⁸, Y. Hello¹⁸, J. J. Hernández-Rey¹⁰, B. Herold⁶, J. Hößl⁶, C. Hugon⁵, C. W. James⁶, M. de Jong⁸, M. Kadler²⁸, O. Kalekin⁶, A. Kappes⁶, U. Katz⁶, P. Kooijman⁸^,29^,30, A. Kouchner⁹, I. Kreykenbohm³¹, V. Kulikovskiy⁵^,32^*, R. Lahmann⁶, E. Lambard³, G. Lambard¹⁰, G. Larosa¹, D. Lattuada²⁰, D. Lefèvre²¹^,22, E. Leonora³³^,34, D. Lo Presti³³^,34, H. Loehner²⁴, S. Loucatos⁷^,9, F. Louis⁷, S. Mangano¹⁰, M. Marcelin¹¹, A. Margiotta¹²^,13, J. A. Martínez-Mora¹, S. Martini²¹^,22, T. Michael⁸, T. Montaruli²¹^,35, M. Morganti²⁵, C. Müller³¹, M. Neff⁶, E. Nezri¹¹, D. Palioselitis⁸, G. E. Păvălaş¹⁶, C. Perrina¹⁴^,15, V. Popa¹⁶, T. Pradier³⁶, C. Racca², G. Riccobene²⁰, R. Richter⁶, C. Rivière³, A. Robert²¹^,22, K. Roensch⁶, A. Rostovtsev³⁷, D. F. E. Samtleben⁸^,38, M. Sanguineti⁵, P. Sapienza²⁰, J. Schmid⁶, J. Schnabel⁶, S. Schulte⁸, F. Schüssler⁷, T. Seitz⁶, R. Shanidze⁶, C. Sieger⁶, F. Simeone¹⁴^,15, A. Spies⁶, M. Spurio¹²^,13, J. J. M. Steijger⁸, Th. Stolarczyk⁷, A. Sánchez-Losa¹⁰, M. Taiuti⁴^,39, C. Tamburini²¹^,22, Y. Tayalati⁴⁰, A. Trovato²⁰, B. Vallage⁷, C. Vallée³, V. Van Elewyck⁹, M. Vecchi³, P. Vernin⁷, E. Visser⁸, S. Wagner⁶, J. Wilms³¹, E. de Wolf⁸^,30, K. Yatkin³, H. Yepes¹⁰, J. D. Zornoza¹⁰ and J. Zúñiga¹⁰

¹ Institut d’Investigació per a la Gestió Integrada de les Zones Costaneres (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, C/Paranimf 1, 46730 , Gandia, Spain
² GRPHE, Institut universitaire de technologie de Colmar, 34 rue du Grillenbreit, BP 50568, 68008 , Colmar, France
³ CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
⁴ Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Technical University of Catalonia, Rambla Exposició, 08800 , Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain
⁵ INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 , Genoa, Italy
⁶ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 , Erlangen, Germany
⁷ Direction des Sciences de la Matière, Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l’Univers, Service d’Electronique des Détecteurs et d’Informatique, CEA Saclay, 91191 , Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
⁸ Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
⁹ APC, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/IRFU, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75205 , Paris, France
¹⁰ IFIC, Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Edificios Investigación de Paterna, CSIC, Universitat de València, Apdo. de Correos 22085, 46071 , Valencia, Spain
¹¹ LAM, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Pôle de l’Étoile Site de Château-Gombert, rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie 38, 13388 , Marseille Cedex 13, France
¹² INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Viale Berti-Pichat 6/2, 40127 , Bologna, Italy
¹³ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, 40127 , Bologna, Italy
¹⁴ INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 , Rome, Italy
¹⁵ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università La Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 , Rome, Italy
¹⁶ Institute for Space Sciences, 77125 , Bucharest, Măgurele, Romania
¹⁷ Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, BP 10448, 63000 , Clermont-Ferrand, France
¹⁸ Géoazur, Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS/INSU, IRD, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France
¹⁹ INFN, Sezione di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70126 , Bari, Italy
²⁰ INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS), Via S. Sofia 62, 95123 , Catania, Italy
²¹ Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), Aix-Marseille University, 13288 , Marseille Cedex 9, France
²² Universit du Sud Toulon-Var, CNRS-INSU/IRD UM 110, 83957 , La Garde Cedex, France
²³ Université Paris-Sud, 91405 , Orsay Cedex, France
²⁴ Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI), University of Groningen, Zernikelaan 25, 9747 AA , Groningen, The Netherlands
²⁵ INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 , Pisa, Italy
²⁶ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 , Pisa, Italy
²⁷ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Landsdiep 4, 1797 SZ , ’t Horntje (Texel), The Netherlands
²⁸ Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 , Würzburg, Germany
²⁹ Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Betawetenschappen, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC , Utrecht, The Netherlands
³⁰ Instituut voor Hoge-Energie Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park 105, 1098 XG , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
³¹ Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte and ECAP, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sternwartstr. 7, 96049 , Bamberg, Germany
³² Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 119991 , Moscow, Russia
³³ INFN, Sezione di Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125 , Catania, Italy
³⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia dell’Università, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125 , Catania, Italy
³⁵ Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire, Université de Genève, 1211 , Geneva, Switzerland
³⁶ IPHC-Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS/IN2P3, 23 rue du Loess, BP 28, 67037 , Strasbourg Cedex 2, France
³⁷ ITEP, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, B. Cheremushkinskaya 25, 117218 , Moscow, Russia
³⁸ Universiteit Leiden, Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in Natuurkunde, 2333 CA , Leiden, The Netherlands
³⁹ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 , Genoa, Italy
⁴⁰ Laboratory of Physics of Matter and Radiations, University Mohammed I, B.P.717, 6000 , Oujda , Morocco

^* e-mail: vladimir.kulikovskiy@ge.infn.it

Received: 23 August 2013
Accepted: 2 December 2013
Published online: 6 February 2014

Abstract

Analysis of the Fermi-LAT data has revealed two extended structures above and below the Galactic Centre emitting gamma rays with a hard spectrum, the so-called Fermi bubbles. Hadronic models attempting to explain the origin of the Fermi bubbles predict the emission of high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays with similar fluxes. The ANTARES detector, a neutrino telescope located in the Mediterranean Sea, has a good visibility to the Fermi bubble regions. Using data collected from 2008 to 2011 no statistically significant excess of events is observed and therefore upper limits on the neutrino flux in TeV range from the Fermi bubbles are derived for various assumed energy cutoffs of the source.

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