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Title: | Detection potential of the KM3NeT detector for high-energy neutrinos from the Fermi bubbles. |
Author: | The KM3NeT Collaboration Canals Artigas, Miquel |
Keywords: | Astrofísica Astrophysics |
Issue Date: | Feb-2013 |
Publisher: | Elsevier B.V. |
Abstract: | A recent analysis of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data provided evidence for a high-intensity emission of high-energy gamma rays with a E−2 spectrum from two large areas, spanning 50° above and below the Galactic centre (the "Fermi bubbles"). A hadronic mechanism was proposed for this gamma-ray emission making the Fermi bubbles promising source candidates of high-energy neutrino emission. In this work Monte Carlo simulations regarding the detectability of high-energy neutrinos from the Fermi bubbles with the future multi-km3 neutrino telescope KM3NeT in the Mediterranean Sea are presented. Under the hypothesis that the gamma-ray emission is completely due to hadronic processes, the results indicate that neutrinos from the bubbles could be discovered in about one year of operation, for a neutrino spectrum with a cutoff at 100 TeV and a detector with about 6 km3 of instrumented volume. The effect of a possible lower cutoff is also considered. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.11.010 |
It is part of: | Astroparticle Physics, 2013, vol. 42, p. 7-14 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/156018 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.11.010 |
ISSN: | 0927-6505 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Dinàmica de la Terra i l'Oceà) Publicacions de projectes de recerca finançats per la UE |
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