Sensitivity estimates for diffuse, point-like and extended neutrino sources with KM3NeT/ARCA

  • B. Caiffi
  • , A. Garcia Soto
  • , A. Heijboer
  • , V. Kulikovskiy
  • , R. S. Muller
  • , M. Sanguineti
  • , The KM3NeT collaboration
  • , M. D. Filipović
  • , et al.

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Abstract

The identification of cosmic objects emitting high energy neutrinos could provide new insights about the Universe and its active sources. The existence of these cosmic neutrinos has been proven by the IceCube collaboration, but the big question of which sources these neutrinos originate from, remains unanswered. The KM3NeT detector for Astroparticle Research with Cosmics in the Abyss (ARCA), with a cubic kilometer instrumented volume, is currently being built in the Mediterranean Sea. It will excel at identifying cosmic neutrino sources due to its unprecedented angular resolution for muon neutrinos (< 0.2 for E > 10 TeV neutrinos). KM3NeT has a view of the sky complementary to IceCube, and is sensitive to neutrinos across a wide range of energies. In order to identify the signature of cosmic neutrino sources in the background of atmospheric neutrinos and muons, statistical methods are being developed and tested with Monte-Carlo pseudo-experiments. This contribution presents the most recent sensitivity estimates for diffuse, point-like and extended neutrino sources with KM3NeT/ARCA.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1077
Number of pages10
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume395
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Mar 2022
EventInternational Cosmic Ray Conference - Virtual, Berlin, Germany
Duration: 12 Jul 202123 Jul 2021
Conference number: 37th

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