| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 116, 2016
Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope (VLVnT-2015)
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| Article Number | 04008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Physics Results | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611604008 | |
| Published online | 11 April 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611604008
Predicted sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA detector to a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos
1 INFN – Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, via S. Sofia 62, Catania 95123, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Viale Berti-Pichat 6/2, Bologna 40127, Italy
3 INFN – Sezione di Bologna, Viale Berti-Pichat 6/2, Bologna 40127, Italy
4 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erwin-Rommel-Strasse 1, Erlangen 91058, Germany
a e-mail: lfusco@bo.infn.it
Published online: 11 April 2016
The KM3NeT Collaboration has started the construction of a research infrastructure hosting a network of underwater neutrino detectors in the Mediterranean Sea. Two instruments based on the same technology are being built: KM3NeT/ORCA to measure the neutrino mass hierarchy and to study atmospheric neutrino oscillations and KM3NeT/ARCA to detect high-energy cosmic neutrinos both in diffuse and point source mode. The excellent angular resolution of the ARCA detector, with an instrumented volume of about one Gton, will allow for an unprecedented exploration of the neutrino sky searching for neutrinos coming from defined sources of sky regions, like the Galactic Plane and the Fermi Bubbles. It will also look for diffuse high energy neutrino fluxes following the indication provided by the IceCube signal. This contribution will report on the sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA telescope with particular attention to the region of the Galactic Plane. Comparisons with theoretical expectations are also discussed.
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