Published March 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Sensitivity of the NEMO telescope to neutrinos from microquasars

Creators

  • 1. LNS-INFN, via S. Sofia 62, 95123 Catania (Italy)

Description

We present the results of Monte Carlo simulation studies of the capability of the proposed NEMO telescope to detect TeV muon neutrinos from Galactic microquasars. In particular we determined the number of the detectable events from each known microquasar together with the expected atmospheric neutrino and muon background events. We also discuss the detector sensitivity to neutrino fluxes expected from microquasars, optimizing the event selection in order to reject the atmospheric background, and we show the number of events surviving the event selection

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2006.11.027;
arXiv
arXiv:astro-ph/0608515v1;
PII
S0920-5632(06)00860-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
165
Journal Page Range
p. 181-187
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
Cosmic ray international seminars
Dates
29 May - 2 Jun 2006
Place
Catania (Italy)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39078386
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUON NEUTRINOS; MUONS; NEUTRINO DETECTION; OPTIMIZATION; QUASARS; SENSITIVITY; TELESCOPES; TEV RANGE
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; DETECTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINOS; RADIATION DETECTION; SIMULATION

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.