Sensitivity for astrophysical neutrino searches with KM3NeT-ORCA
de Wasseige G, Kouchner A, Molla MC, Dornic D, Hallmann S (2019)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2019
Journal
Publisher: Sissa Medialab Srl
Book Volume: 358
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of Science
Event location: Madison, WI, USA
Abstract
The KM3NeT facility, the next generation of large neutrino detectors, is currently being deployed in the Mediterranean Sea. KM3NeT will consist of two ARCA ("Astroparticle Research with Cosmics in the Abyss") building blocks, optimized for very high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, and of the ORCA one ("Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss"). While ORCA has originally been designed to study neutrino oscillations using atmospheric neutrinos, this dense array may also be used for astrophysical neutrino searches. We present a first estimate of the sensitivity for GeV-100GeV neutrino searches in time/space coincidence with GW alerts sent by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations (LVC). We use the final configuration of ORCA, i.e. ORCA-115 detection units, to estimate the sensitivity of ORCA to gravitational wave events that may be detected by LVC during O3.
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University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot
France (FR)
Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université
France (FR)
France (FR)
Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université
France (FR)
How to cite
APA:
de Wasseige, G., Kouchner, A., Molla, M.C., Dornic, D., & Hallmann, S. (2019). Sensitivity for astrophysical neutrino searches with KM3NeT-ORCA. In Proceedings of Science. Madison, WI, USA: Sissa Medialab Srl.
MLA:
de Wasseige, Gwenhael, et al. "Sensitivity for astrophysical neutrino searches with KM3NeT-ORCA." Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2019, Madison, WI, USA Sissa Medialab Srl, 2019.
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