Section 4: Members of the consortium

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  a description of the legal entity and its main tasks, with an explanation of how its profile matches the tasks in the proposal.
  
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  a curriculum vitae or description of the profile of the persons, including their gender, who will be primarily responsible for carrying out the proposed research and/or innovation activities;
  
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  a list of up to 5 relevant publications, and/or products, services (including widely-used datasets or software), or other achievements relevant to the  call content;
  
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  a list of up to 5 relevant previous projects or activities, connected to the subject of this proposal;
  
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  a description of any significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment, relevant to the proposed work;
  
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  [any other supporting documents specified in the work programme for this call]
  

Maarten de Jong is the inventor of the “All-data-to-shore” concept which was pioneered in ANTARES and is the standard in KM3NeT. Maarten de Jong has developed the software algorithms that yield the world’s best direction and energy resolution of charged-current interactions of muon neutrinos (the primary signal for neutrino astronomy with KM3NeT).

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  M. de Jong et al., Final results from a search for ν_μ→ν_τ oscillations with the CHORUS experiment Nucl. Phys. B 793 (2008) 326-343;
  
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  M. de Jong et al., Measurement of nucleon structure functions in neutrino scattering Phys. Lett. B 632 (2006) 65-75;
  
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  M. de Jong et al., The prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT detector Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76:1-12;
  
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  M. de Jong et al., ANTARES constrains a blazar origin of two IceCube PeV neutrino events A&A Lett. 576 (2015) L8;
  
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  M. de Jong et al., High-energy Neutrino follow-up search of Gravitational Wave Candidate G184098 accepted by Phys Rev D22;
  

Nikhef has three technical departments together comprising 75 fte: Mechanic Technology (MT), Electronics Technology (ET) and Computing Technology (CT). Nikhef is equipped with state-of-the-art tools and equipment for engineering design optimization (3D CAD,  FE calculations, material studies, thermal modelling, electromagnetic shielding, etc.), production of mechanical sub-assemblies (such as 5-axis CNC milling machines, welding, 3D metrology), processing of microelectronics wafers (clean-rooms, bonding machines, an electron microscope), analogue, digital and mixed-signal electronics and micro-electronics design, production and testing (Mentor Graphics, HDL works EASE, Cadence, Synopsys, signal generators and analyzers, optical labs, irradiation facilities, etc.). Nikhef’s datacenter hosts an LHC Tier-1 facility and is a colocation for the  Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), housing about 130 different customers.

Nikhef also hosts the Particle and Astro-particle track of the Physics Master of the universities of Amsterdam.
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4.1.2 Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Centre for Scientific Research) is a government-funded research organization, under the administrative authority of France's Ministry of Research. CNRS's annual budget represents a quarter of French public spending on civilian research. As the largest fundamental research organization in Europe, CNRS carried out research in almost all fields of knowledge, through its eight research institutes : Mathematics (INSMI), Physics (INP), Chemistry (INC); Biological Sciences (INSB); Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS); Ecology

and Environment (INEE); Engineering and Systems (INSIS); Information Sciences (INS2I); and its two national institutes: the National Institute of Earth Sciences and Astronomy (INSU); and the National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3).

Its own laboratories as well as those it maintains jointly with universities, other research organizations, or industry are located throughout France, but also overseas with international joint laboratories located in several countries. Measured by the amount of human and material resources it commits to scientific research or by the great range of disciplines in which its scientists carry on their work, the CNRS is clearly the hub of research activity in France. It is also an important breeding ground for scientific and technological innovation.

The institute of the CNRS concerned with this proposal is the IN2P3 (National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics). The researchers and engineers are deployed in mixed research units, UMR (usually laboratories) where they work together with researcher lecturers employed by the University system.

their fundamental interactions and the manner in which they assemble into atomic nuclei, to study the properties of these nuclei and to explore the connections between the infinitely small and the infinitely large. Whilst these main themes represent the core of the discipline, IN2P3 also has several

additional vocations: enabling other scientific domains to benefit from its competencies and solving certain problems posed by society, and accompanying universities in contributing to youngsters’ training. IN2P3 is also responsible for running several major national facilities including particle

accelerators. It also supports several international facilities (e.g. CERN, EGO/VIRGO,...). As the experiments require significant investments in terms of financing and personnel, from the outset the Institute took the structure of a limited number of large laboratories and Infrastructures or technological

platforms in order to facilitate the pooling and optimization of its resources and competencies. IN2P3 also shares with the CNRS/INSU Institute for Astrophysics the support to some projects in Astrophysics and Cosmology. CNRS, together with CEA-IRFU, fund almost all national e-Infrastructures for these domains. The CC-IN2P3 (Centre de Calcul de l’IN2P3), the National Computing Centre of the IN2P3 Institute provides data archive and computing resources for many of

astroparticle physics experiments: AMS, ANTARES, H.E.S.S., VIRGO, Fermi. It supports the future major projects such as KM3NeT, CTA, EUCLID and LSST. It provide computing resources also to research projects in other fields such as biology and life science, humanity and social science.

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  Coyle P., et al. (2011). ANTARES: the first undersea neutrino telescope. Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A656 pp.11-38, 10.1016/j.nima.2011.06.103
  
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  Coyle P., et al. (2014). Searches for Point-like and extended neutrino sources close to the Galactic Centre using the ANTARES neutrino Telescope. Astrophys.J. Vol. 786, L5, DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/786/1/L5
  
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  Coyle P., et al. (2012). The ANTARES Telescope Neutrino Alert System, Astropart. Phys. Vol. 35, pp 530-536, DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.11.011
  
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  Coyle P., et al. (2010). KM3NeT: The technical design report for a deep-sea research infrastructure in the Mediterranean Sea Incorporating a very large volume neutrino telescope. KM3NeT website
  
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  Coyle P., et al. (2013). Detection Potential of the KM3NeT Detector for High-Energy Neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles. Astropart. Phys. Vol. 42, pp 7-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.11.010
  

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. With its five faculties, FAU offers an almost unique scope of subjects ranging from the Humanities to Law and Economics as well as Sciences, Medicine and Engineering. FAU offers perfect conditions for interdisciplinary research and learning to students and scientists alike. Moreover, over the last decades, the University has established its reputation as a top-ranking institution in cutting-edge research. It is firmly anchored in a close network of interdisciplinary co-operations. These include partners from industry, specialized non-university research centres and a number of leading international universities.

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  Relevant publications
  
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  Comparison of ZEUS data with standard model predictions for ep→eX scattering at high x and Q², ZEUS Coll., Z. Phys. C74 (1997) 207-220
  
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  KM3NeT: Towards a km³ Mediterranean Neutrino Telescope, U. Katz, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A567 (2006) 457-461
  
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  AMADEUS - The Acoustic Neutrino Detection Test System of the ANTARES Deep-Sea Neutrino Telescope, ANTARES Coll., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A626-627 (2011) 128-143
  
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  High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics: Status and Perspectives, U. Katz and Ch. Spiering, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 67 (2012) 651-704
  
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  KM3NeT 2.0 Letter of Intent for ARCA and ORCA, KM3NeT Coll., arXiv:1601.07459 [astro-ph.IM], to be published in J. Phys. G
  
  
  

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  ANTARES neutrino telescope collaboration, PI of FAU group
  
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  KM3NeT Design Study in FP6 (Coordinator)
  
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  KM3NeT Preparatory Phase in FP7 (WP coordinator)
  
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  KM3NeT Phase-1 collaboration (Physics and software coordinator, member of management team)
  

He is the supervisor of five PhD thesis devoted to these experiments (three of them on-going). Two of them are directly related with the project of which he is responsible in this proposal. JD. Zornoza has also participated as speaker in more than 40 international conferences and international schools on this topic and has been member of the scientific committee or convener in several of them. He has also organized two international workshops on the interplay of different dark matter detectors in the last two years.

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  “Limits on Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope “, ANTARES Collaboration (S. Adrian-Martinez (Valencia, Polytechnic U.) et al.). Mar 7, 2016. 6 pp. Published in Phys.Lett. B759 (2016) 69-74 DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.019, e-Print: arXiv:1603.02228
  
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  “A search for Secluded Dark Matter in the Sun with the ANTARES neutrino telescope “, ANTARES Collaboration (S. Adrián-Martínez (Valencia, Polytechnic U.) et al.). Feb 22, 2016. 18 pp. Published in JCAP 1605 (2016) no.05, 016 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/05/016, e-Print: arXiv:1602.07000
  
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  “Search of Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Centre using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope” ANTARES Collaboration (S. Adrian-Martinez (Valencia, Polytechnic U.) et al.). May 19, 2015. 26 pp. Published in JCAP 1510 (2015) no.10, 068 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/10/068, e-Print: arXiv:1505.04866
  
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  First results on dark matter annihilation in the Sun using the ANTARES neutrino telescope ANTARES Collaboration (S. Adrian-Martinez (Valencia, Polytechnic U.) et al.). Feb 26, 2013. Published in JCAP 1311 (2013) 032 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/11/032, e-Print: arXiv:1302.6516
  
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  Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope ANTARES Collaboration (S. Adrian-Martinez (Valencia, Polytechnic U.) et al.). Oct 2011. 7 pp. Published in Astropart.Phys. 35 (2012) 634-640 DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.02.007 e-Print: arXiv:1110.2656
  

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  As Principal Investigator (and Coordinator of the Spanish Groups): “Spanish participation in ANTARES, KM3NeT-ORCA/ARCA and PDG”, Reference: FPA2015-65150-C3-1-P, Funding: 249,500 €, Period: 2016-2018, Funding Agency: Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Competitiveness
  

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  As Marie Curie Fellow: “Data Analysis in AMANDA and MonteCarlo simulations in IceCube”,
  
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    Reference: MOIF-CT-2005, Contract nb. 7921 (Marie Curie Outgoing Fellowship), Funding: 255,187€, Period: 2005-2008, Funding Agency: European Commission,
    

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    “MultiDark (Multi-messenger Method for Dark Matter Detection”, Reference: CSD2009-00064 (Consolider Program), Funding: 3.200.000 €, Period: 2010-2015, PI: Carlos Muñoz, Co-coordinator of the Neutrino Working Group: J.D. Zornoza, Funding Agency: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
    
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    “Participation of IFIC in the ANTARES and KM3NeT neutrino telescopes” Reference: FPA2012-37528-C02-01, Funding: 237.510 €, Period: 2013-2016, PI: Juan José Hernández-Rey, Funding Agency: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
    
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    “KM3NeT - Preparatory Phase for a Deep Facility in the Mediterranean for Neutrino Astronomy and Assciated Sciences”, Ref: 212525, Funding: 147,000 € (IFIC share), Period: 2008-2011, PI: Juan José Hernández-Rey, Funding Agency: European Commission
    

The University of Valencia and the IFIC in particular offers a long list of services associated to large educational/research centers. For instance, at IFIC there are well equipped laboratories, including a Clean Room, a Mechanics workshop and Electronics workshop, which have been operating for several experiments (LHC-related, KM3NeT, NEXT, etc.) for many years. For the WP of which IFIC is responsible, the most relevant infrastructure is the GRID for distributed computing for data analysis of the experiments in which IFIC participates. It is a Tier-2 center which at present includes 10300 HS06 of CPU y 1400 TB of storage capacity. There is also a plan for continuous renewal of the equipment. The use of this infrastructure, will allow, as it has been the case in the past, to process large quantities of data and simulated events.

Concerning astroparticles, INFN has a wide range of activities, including neutrino physics, Cosmic Ray physics, Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter searches and study of rare processes. In the field of neutrino astronomy INFN designed and operated the detectors for the NEMO pilot project and participates in Antares and KM3NeT. INFN has been partner with leading roles of the KM3NeT Design Study and Preparatory Phase EU projects, coordinating the latter.

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  Abyssal undular vortices in the Eastern Mediterranean basin, A. Rubino et al., Nature Communications 3 (2012) 834
  
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  Underwater neutrino telescopes: Detectors for astro-particle physics and a gateway for deep-sea laboratories, E. Migneco, P. Piattelli and G. Riccobene, in “Seafloor Observatories, A New Vision of the Earth from the Abyss” Springer Praxis Book (2015), pag. 23 ISBN 978-3-642-11373-4
  
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  The prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT detector, S. Adrian-Martinez et al., European Physics Journal C, 74 (2016) 3056
  
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  Long term monitoring of the optical background in the Capo Passero deep-sea site with the NEMO tower prototype, S. Adrian-Martinez et al., European Physics Journal C, 76 (2016) 68
  
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  KM3NeT 2.0 Letter of Intent for ARCA and ORCA, KM3NeT Coll., arXiv:1601.07459 [astro-ph.IM], to be published in J. Phys. G
  

(1)4.1.6 NCSR Demokritos

Highly-qualified personnel conduct world-class basic and applied research to promote science and innovation in selected areas of national importance. Research at the Center is carried out at EU level through its participation in European research projects, networks of excellence and technology platforms. NCSRD success in peer reviewed R&D funded programmes represents one of the strongest endorsements of its R&D competence and reflects its world-class standing. At a national level, the expertise and infrastructure of NCSRD are unique in Greece, which makes its role also exceptional in developing novel technologies, transferring technology and know-how to the industry and developing human potential.

The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics is the main Greek partner in KM3NeT, with the Astroparticle Physics group active in all aspects of the project. The group comprises of about 12 persons, including senior physicists, post-doctoral researchers, postgraduate students and technicians. INPP is the owner of the KM3NeT-GR installation site in Pylos, southwest Peloponnese.

NCSRD plays a pivotal role in postgraduate education and professional training, provides customized high-technology services to the public and private sectors, operates the Scientific & Technological Park of Attica “Leukippos” and an Innovation Exhibition, and has a fully equipped Congress Center to support research and entrepreneurial networking activities. Last but not least, it has recently initiated the implementation of a plan to establish an Innovation and Entrepreneurship hub, namely the Metropolitan Innovation Campus of Attica, through integrating local research and industrial stakeholders.

After more than 50 years of operation, NCSR "Demokritos" has excellent credentials in research, technological innovation, education and training, scientific know-how, laboratory infrastructure and expertise, internationally recognised personnel, high impact publications, patent development and spin-off creation.

CV of key personnel
Christos Markou (m) is Director of Research in the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics of NCSR Demokritos. He is an experimental physicist with expertise in Astroparticle physics, particle physics, scientific computing, and detector development. He is the Astroparticle physics group leader in INPP, member of the Publication committee of KM3NeT. He has led and coordinated various research projects funded by national and European funds. More recently he was Principal Investigator in the GRBNeT project funded by NSRF in Greece. He has been actively involved in distributed computing projects, such as EGEE (I, II, III), Crossgrid and HellasGrid. He is member of the Greek CERN committee of the Greek Ministry of Education, and member of the Scientific Advisory board of INPP. He has supervised several Ph.D. and Master theses. In the past he has been member of several particle physics experiments, namely UA1, ZEUS, ALPEH and CMS.
A complete list of publications can be found at: http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=find+a+markou%2C+c&of=hb&action_search=Search&sf=earliestdate&so=d
Relevant publications

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  KM3NeT: Towards a cubic kilometre volume neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean sea, C. Markou, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A595 (2008), p.54
  
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  GRBNeT – A prototype for an autonomous underwater neutrino detector
  K. Pikounis, C. Markou, et al, EPJ Web Conf. 116 (2016) 09004
  
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  Energy reconstruction of high energy muon and neutrino events in KM3NeT
  KM3NeT Collaboration E. Drakopoulou, et al, EPJ Web Conf. 116 (2016) 02001
  
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  The prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT detector
  KM3NeT Collaboration (S. Adrián-Martínez et al, Eur.Phys.J. C76 (2016) no.2, 54
  

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  KM3NeT 2.0 Letter of Intent for ARCA and ORCA, KM3NeT collaboration,
  

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  KM3NeT design study in FP6
  
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  KM3NeT preparatory phase in FP7
  
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  GRBNeT project, PI, project coordinator
  
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  KM3NeT Phase-1, PI of the NCSR group
  

NCSR is the owner of the KM3NeT-GR installation site in Pylos, including on-shore facilities, mechanical workshops, electronics workshops and assembly areas. In the Athens site, NCSR offers significant IT infrastructure and access to the local computing facilities.

Participation in the overall Project Management & Coordination; WP leader of WP9 and WP10; NCSR Demokritos will also participate in WP3 and WPxxx

There are no third parties involved.

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  activities or results raising security issues: No
  
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  ‘EU-classified information' as background or results: No