Interpretation of astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube experiment by setting Galactic and extra-Galactic spectral components
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| Publication date | 2016 |
| Journal | EPJ Web of Conferences |
| Event | VLVnT - 2015: Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope |
| Article number | 04009 |
| Volume | Issue number | 116 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
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| Abstract |
The last IceCube catalog of High Energy Starting Events (HESE) obtained with a livetime of 1347 days comprises 54 neutrino events equally-distributed between the three families with energies between 25 TeV and few PeVs. Considering the homogeneous flavors distribution (1:1:1) and the spectral features of these neutrinos the IceCube collaboration claims the astrophysical origin of these events with more than 5σ. The spatial distribution of cited events does not show a clear correlation with known astrophysical accelerators leaving opened both the Galactic and the extra-Galactic origin interpretations. Here, we compute the neutrino diffuse emission of our Galaxy on the basis of a recently proposed phenomenological model characterized by radially-dependent cosmic-ray (CR) transport properties. We show that the astrophysical spectrum measured by IceCube experiment can be well explained adding to the diffuse Galactic neutrino flux (obtained with this new model) a extra-Galactic component derived from the astrophysical muonic neutrinos reconstructed in the Northern hemisphere. A good agreement between the expected astrophysical neutrino flux and the IceCube data is found for the full sky as well as for the Galactic plane region.
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| Document type | Article |
| Note | Proceedings title: Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope (VLVnT-2015) : Roma, Italy, September 14–16, 2015 ISBN: 9782759820160 Eds.: A. Capone, G. De Bonis, I. Di Palma and C. Perrina. |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611604009 |
| Other links | https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84969811694 |
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