Published 2019
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Journal article
ANTARES-IceCube combined search for neutrino pointsources in the Southern Hemisphere
Creators
- 1. IFIC - Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC - Universitat de València) c/ Catedrático José Beltrán, 2 E-46980 Paterna, Valencia (Spain)
Description
A search for cosmic neutrino point-like sources covering the Southern hemisphere is presented, using 9 years and 7 years of data from the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes, respectively. The advantageous field of view of ANTARES as well as the high statistics provided by IceCube are exploited to open a window in the Southern sky where the sensitivity to point-sources improves by a factor ~ 2 compared to individual analyses. An unbinned maximum likelihood method is used to search for a localised excess of muon events over the expected background. Before applying the method to the unblinded dataset, the sensitivity and discovery potential of the search are computed through dedicated pseudo-experiments.
Availability note (English)
Available from https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/12/epjconf_vlvnt2018_02008.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/d091bf115f434f68a51cd54185296354Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- EPJ. Web of Conferences
- Journal Volume
- 207
- Journal Page Range
- vp.
- ISSN
- 2100-014X
Conference
- Title
- International Conference on Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes
- Acronym
- VLVnT-2018
- Dates
- 2-4 Oct 2018
- Place
- Dubna (Russian Federation)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 53098232
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMIC NEUTRINOS; ICECUBE NEUTRINO DETECTOR; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD FIT; MUONS; POINT SOURCES; SENSITIVITY; TELESCOPES
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NEUTRINO DETECTORS; NEUTRINOS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIATIONS