2008/03/31 by Francis Halzen, F. Halzen, A. Kappes +3 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic ray #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Flux (metallurgy) #Galaxy #Interstellar medium #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino astronomy #Neutrino detector #Neutrino oscillation #Particle physics #Physics #Sky #Supernova #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.78.063004
published as Phys.Rev.D78:063004,2008 · 5 pages, 5 figures; part of the text and some figures have changed, conclusions remain the same; equals journal version
openalex publication_date 2008/09/04 · arxiv created 2008/09/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We quantitatively address whether IceCube, a kilometer-scale neutrino detector under construction at the South Pole, can observe neutrinos pointing back at the accelerators of the Galactic cosmic rays. The photon flux from candidate sources identified by the Milagro detector in a survey of the TeV sky is consistent with the flux expected from a typical cosmic-ray generating supernova remnant interacting with the interstellar medium. We show here that IceCube can provide incontrovertible evidence of cosmic-ray acceleration in these sources by detecting neutrinos. We find that the signal is optimally identified by specializing to events with energies above 30 TeV where the atmospheric neutrino background is low. We conclude that evidence for a correlation between the Milagro and IceCube sky maps should be conclusive after several years.