Neutrino astronomy with the MACRO detector

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2000-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002492v2

Astrophys.J.546:1038-1054,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

37 pages, 15 figures, replacement due to a typo in tab. 6, AASLaTex, submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/318281

High energy gamma ray astronomy is now a well established field and several sources have been discovered in the region from a few GeV up to several TeV. If sources involving hadronic processes exist, the production of photons would be accompanied by neutrinos too. Other possible neutrino sources could be related to the annihilation of WIMPs at the center of galaxies with black holes. We present the results of a search for point-like sources using 1100 upward-going muons produced by neutrino interactions in the rock below and inside the MACRO detector in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory. These data show no evidence for a possible neutrino point-like source or for possible correlations between gamma ray bursts and neutrinos. They have been used to set flux upper limits for candidate point-like sources which are in the range 10^-14-10^-15 cm-2 s-1.

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