Published 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

ANTARES-IceCube combined search for neutrino pointsources in the Southern Hemisphere

  • 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/d091bf115f434f68a51cd54185296354

Additional details

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)