Identifying Galactic PeVatrons with Neutrinos

Details Identifying Galactic PeVatrons with Neutrinos Identifying Galactic PeVatrons with Neutrinos

2009-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/0902.1176v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

22 pages, 5 Figures

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We perform a realistic evaluation of the potential of IceCube, a kilometer-scale neutrino detector under construction at the South Pole, to detect neutrinos in the direction of the potential accelerators of the Galactic cosmic rays. We take fully account of the fact that the measurement of the energy of the secondary muons can be used to further discriminate between the signal and the background of atmospheric neutrinos. We conclude that IceCube could identify the sources in the Milagro sky map as the sources of the Galactic cosmic rays at the 3 sigma level in one year and at the 5 sigma level in three years. We discuss the dependence of these expectations on ambiguities, mostly associated with our incomplete knowledge of the astrophysics of the sources.

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