Title: Status and first results of the ANTARES neutrino telescope.
Speaker: S. Loucatos, on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration
         CEA (Saclay)

Date/Time: Thursday, June 11, 3:00 PM, EDT
Place: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Bldg 510, Small Seminar Room

Abstract: 
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The ANTARES (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss enviromental
RESearch) Collaboration constructed and deployed the world's largest underwater 
neutrino telescope, optimised for the detection of  Cherenkov light produced by 
neutrino-induced muons. The detector has an effective area of the order of 
0.1 square km and it is a first  step towards a kilometric scale detector.

The detector consists of a three-dimensional array of 885 photomultiplier tubes, 
arranged in 12 lines anchored at a depth of 2475 m in the  Mediterranean Sea, 40 km 
offshore from Toulon (France). An additional instrumented line is used for environmental 
monitoring and for  acoustic neutrino detection R&D.
 
ANTARES is taking data with its full twelve-line configuration since May 2008 and had 
been also doing so for more than a year ago in five and ten-line setups. 

The detector performance will be discussed.
First results obtained in the study of cosmic ray muons, atmospheric neutrinos, 
point like sources and dark matter searches will be presented.