Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino telescope to point-like neutrino sources
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- 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 potentialKM3NeT 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.…
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-227759 |
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| Document Type: | Journal article |
| Faculties: | Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie / Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik |
| Language: | English |
| Parent Title (English): | Astroparticle Physics |
| Year of Completion: | 2019 |
| Volume: | 111 |
| Pagenumber: | 100-110 |
| Source: | Astroparticle Physics 111 (2019) 100-110. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2019.04.002 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2019.04.002 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Tag: | Astrophysical neutrino sources; Cherenkov underwater neutrino telescope; Cosmic-rays; Galactic sources; Icecube; KM3NeT; Particle-acceleration; Radiation; Remnant RX J1713.7-3946; Shell; Supernova; TEV |
| Release Date: | 2024/04/12 |
| Creating Corporation: | The KM3NeT Collaboration |
| Licence (German): |  CC BY-NC-ND: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung, Nicht kommerziell, Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |