Published 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

IceCube-Gen2 sensitivity improvement for steady neutrino point sources

  • 1. TU Muenchen, Physik-Department, Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching (Germany)

Description

The observation of an astrophysical neutrino flux by high-energy events starting in IceCube strengthens the search for sources of astrophysical neutrinos. Identification of these sources requires good pointing at high statistics, mainly using muons created by charged-current muon neutrino interactions going through the IceCube detector. We report about preliminary studies of a possible high-energy extension IceCube-Gen2. Using a 6 times bigger detection volume, effective area as well as reconstruction accuracy will improve with respect to IceCube. Moreover, using (in-ice) active veto techniques will significantly improve the performance for Southern hemisphere events, where possible local candidate neutrino sources are located.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Journal Issue
Wuppertal 2015 issue
Series
Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 50(2)
Journal Page Range
[1 p.]
ISSN
0420-0195
CODEN
VDPEAZ

Conference

Title
2015 DPG Spring meeting of the Divisions of Physics Education, Extraterrestrial Physics, Radiation and Medicine Physics, Particle Physics and Working Group on Accelerator Physics
Original Conference Title
DPG-Fruehjahrstagung 2015 der Fachverbaende Didaktik der Physik, Extraterrestrische Physik, Strahlen- und Medizinphysik, Teilchenphysik und dem Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik
Dates
9-13 Mar 2015
Place
Wuppertal (Germany)

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Notes
Session: T 96.6 Do 18:00; No further information available
Collaborations
IceCube-Collaboration