TY  - JOUR
T1  - Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino telescope to point-like neutrino sources
JF  - Astroparticle Physics
N2  - KM3NeT will be a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ARCA detector, to be installed at the Capo Passero site (Italy), is optimised for the detection of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic origin. Thanks to its geographical location on the Northern hemisphere, KM3NeT/ARCA can observe upgoing neutrinos from most of the Galactic Plane, including the Galactic Centre. Given its effective area and excellent pointing resolution, KM3NeT/ARCA will measure or significantly constrain the neutrino flux from potential astrophysical neutrino sources. At the same time, it will test flux predictions based on gamma-ray measurements and the assumption that the gamma-ray flux is of hadronic origin. Assuming this scenario, discovery potentials and sensitivities for a selected list of Galactic sources and to generic point sources with an E-2 spectrum are presented. These spectra are assumed to be time independent. The results indicate that an observation with 3 sigma significance is possible in about six years of operation for the most intense sources, such as Supernovae Remnants RX J1713.7-3946 and Vela Jr. If no signal will be found during this time, the fraction of the gamma-ray flux coming from hadronic processes can be constrained to be below 50% for these two objects. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
KW  - Astrophysical neutrino sources
KW  - Cherenkov underwater neutrino telescope
KW  - KM3NeT
KW  - Remnant RX J1713.7-3946
KW  - Particle-acceleration
KW  - Galactic sources
KW  - Cosmic-rays
KW  - Supernova
KW  - Radiation
KW  - Icecube
KW  - Shell
KW  - TEV
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-227759
VL  - 111
ER  -