Search for a correlation between ANTARES neutrinos and Pierre Auger observatory UHECRs arrival directions

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Publication date 2013
Journal Astrophysical Journal
Volume | Issue number 774 | 1
Pages (from-to) 774
Number of pages 7
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract A multimessenger analysis optimized for a correlation of arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and neutrinos is presented and applied to 2190 neutrino candidate events detected in 2007-2008 by the ANTARES telescope and 69 UHECRs observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory between 2004 January 1 and 2009 December 31. No significant correlation is observed. Assuming an equal neutrino flux (E -2 energy spectrum) from all UHECR directions, a 90% CL upper limit on the neutrino flux of 5.0 × 10-8 GeV cm-2 s-1 per source is derived.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/774/1/19
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