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Title: | Detection potential of the KM3NeT detector for high-energy neutrinos from the Fermi bubbles |
Journal: | Astroparticle Physics |
Series/Report no.: | / 42 (2013) |
Publisher: | Elsevier Science Limited |
Issue Date: | Feb-2013 |
Keywords: | Neutrino telescope Fermi Bubbles KM3NeT |
Subject Classification: | 03. Hydrosphere::03.03. Physical::03.03.05. Instruments and techniques |
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. |
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