Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986ncimc...9..479s&link_type=abstract
(Symposium on Underground Physics, 1st, Saint Vincent, Italy, Apr. 25-28, 1985) Nuovo Cimento C, Serie 1 (ISSN 0390-5551), vol.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
2
Cosmic Ray Showers, Muons, Neutrinos, Particle Flux Density, Radiation Counters, Energy Spectra, Gamma Ray Astronomy, High Energy Interactions, Sensitivity, Underground Structures, X Ray Sources
Scientific paper
The sensitivity of underground and undersea muon detectors to point sources of extraterrestrial neutrinos with power-law spectra is calculated from very general considerations. It is shown that this sensitivity depends critically on the spectral slope, but is essentially independent of the muon energy threshold of the instrument out to 100 GeV. Sources with a neutrino flux comparable to the gamma-ray flux from Cygnus X-3 would not be detectable underground, and are only marginally detectable by the proposed large undersea experiment DUMAND. However, fluxes perhaps 100 times higher are possible, and these would be marginally detectable underground with MACRO or in the proposed DUMAND Stage II detector, the TRIAD.
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