Angular power spectrum analysis on current and future high-energy neutrino data

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Authors
Publication date 2020
Journal Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Event 16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2019
Article number 012167
Volume | Issue number 1468
Number of pages 4
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

To constrain the contribution of source populations to the observed neutrino sky, we consider isotropic and anisotropic components of the diffuse neutrino data. We simulate through-going muon neutrino events by applying statistical distributions for the fluxes of extragalactic sources and investigate the sensitivities of current (IceCube) and future (IceCube-Gen2 and KM3NeT) experiments. The angular power spectrum is a powerful probe to assess the angular characteristics of neutrino data and we can already constrain rare and bright sources with current IceCube data. In addition, decaying and annihilating very heavy dark matter is a potential neutrino source, as suggested by the observed excess in the High-Energy Starting Event dataset. We apply an angular power spectrum analysis to HESE data for different dark matter models, allowing us to interpret the observed neutrino sky and perform a sensitivity forecast.

Document type Article
Note 16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2019) : 9-13 September 2019, Toyama, Japan
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012167
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85083101045
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