Detection Potential of the KM3NeT Detector for High-Energy Neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles

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Detection Potential of the KM3NeT Detector for High-Energy Neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles

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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Submitted 6 Aug 2012

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The authors' main claim 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 km^3 of instrumented volume.

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CitationThe KM3NeT Collaboration. "Detection Potential of the KM3NeT Detector for High-Energy Neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles." arXiv:1208.1226 (2012). https://pith.science/paper/US67CLUN

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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{\deg} 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-km^3 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 km^3 of instrumented volume. The effect of a possible lower cutoff is also considered.

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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{\deg} 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-km^3 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 km^3 of instrumented volume. The effect of a possible lower cutoff is also considered.

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One of them will be KM3NeT, the multi-km$^3$ detector currently planned in the Mediterranean sea [ref] .

A multi-messenger study of the Fermi Bubbles: very high energy gamma rays and neutrinos · Introduction · 0.90

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We note that for IceCube only a small fraction of the Fermi bubbles lies below the horizon (solid red line in Fig. [ref]), leading to a significantly reduced sensitivity compared to a similar detector in the Mediterranean Sea [ref] .

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory I: Point Source Searches · Neutrinos from the Fermi bubbles · 0.97

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Other processes such as recent transient AGN activity near the Galactic centre [ref] , millisecond pulsars [ref] and dark matter annihilation [ref] have also been put forward.

The Fermi Bubbles. II. The Potential Roles of Viscosity and Cosmic Ray Diffusion in Jet Models · The Fermi bubbles · 0.93

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