Astronomy potential of KM3NeT/ARCA
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2024-10-18 v3 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
The KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino detector is currently under construction at 3500 m depth offshore Capo Passero, Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea. The main science objectives are the detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos and the discovery of their sources. Simulations were conducted for the full KM3NeT/ARCA detector, instrumenting a volume of 1 km, to estimate the sensitivity and discovery potential to point-like neutrino sources and an all-sky diffuse neutrino flux. This paper covers the reconstruction of track- and shower-like signatures, as well as the criteria employed for neutrino event selection. By leveraging both the track and shower observation channels, the KM3NeT/ARCA detector demonstrates the capability to detect the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux within half a year of operation, achieving a 5 statistical significance. With an angular resolution below 0.1 for tracks and under 2 for showers, the sensitivity to point-like neutrino sources surpasses existing observed limits across the entire sky.
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@article{arxiv.2402.08363,
title = {Astronomy potential of KM3NeT/ARCA},
author = {S. Aiello and A. Albert and M. Alshamsi and S. Alves Garre and Z. Aly and A. Ambrosone and F. Ameli and M. Andre and E. Androutsou and M. Anguita and L. Aphecetche and M. Ardid and S. Ardid and H. Atmani and J. Aublin and F. Badaracco and L. Bailly-Salins and Z. Bardacová and B. Baret and A. Bariego-Quintana and A. Baruzzi and S. Basegmez du Pree and Y. Becherini and M. Bendahman and F. Benfenati and M. Benhassi and D. M. Benoit and E. Berbee and V. Bertin and S. Biagi and M. Boettcher and D. Bonanno and J. Boumaaza and M. Bouta and M. Bouwhuis and C. Bozza and R. M. Bozza and H. Brânzas and F. Bretaudeau and M. Breuhaus and R. Bruijn and J. Brunner and R. Bruno and E. Buis and R. Buompane and J. Busto and B. Caiffi and D. Calvo and S. Campion and A. Capone and F. Carenini and V. Carretero and T. Cartraud and P. Castaldi and V. Cecchini and S. Celli and L. Cerisy and M. Chabab and M. Chadolias and A. Chen and S. Cherubini and T. Chiarusi and M. Circella and R. Cocimano and J. A. B. Coelho and A. Coleiro and R. Coniglione and P. Coyle and A. Creusot and G. Cuttone and R. Dallier and Y. Darras and A. De Benedittis and B. De Martino and V. Decoene and R. Del Burgo and I. Del Rosso and L. S. Di Mauro and I. Di Palma and A. F. Díaz and C. Diaz and D. Diego-Tortosa and C. Distefano and A. Domi and C. Donzaud and D. Dornic and M. Dörr and E. Drakopoulou and D. Drouhin and J. G. Ducoin and R. Dvornický and T. Eberl and E. Eckerová and A. Eddymaoui and T. van Eeden and M. Eff and D. van Eijk and I. El Bojaddaini and S. El Hedri and A. Enzenhöfer and G. Ferrara and M. D. Filipovic and F. Filippini and D. Franciotti and L. A. Fusco and J. Gabriel and S. Gagliardini and T. Gal and J. García Méndez and A. Garcia Soto and C. Gatius Oliver and N. Geißelbrecht and H. Ghaddari and L. Gialanella and B. K. Gibson and E. Giorgio and I. Goos and P. Goswami and D. Goupilliere and S. R. Gozzini and R. Gracia and K. Graf and C. Guidi and B. Guillon and M. Gutiérrez and H. van Haren and A. Heijboer and A. Hekalo and L. Hennig and J. J. Hernández-Rey and W. Idrissi Ibnsalih and G. Illuminati and M. de Jong and P. de Jong and B. J. Jung and P. Kalaczynski and O. Kalekin and U. F. Katz and G. Kistauri and C. Kopper and A. Kouchner and V. Kueviakoe and V. Kulikovskiy and R. Kvatadze and M. Labalme and R. Lahmann and G. Larosa and C. Lastoria and A. Lazo and S. Le Stum and G. Lehaut and E. Leonora and N. Lessing and G. Levi and M. Lindsey Clark and F. Longhitano and F. Magnani and J. Majumdar and L. Malerba and F. Mamedov and J. Manczak and A. Manfreda and M. Marconi and A. Margiotta and A. Marinelli and C. Markou and L. Martin and J. A. Martínez-Mora and F. Marzaioli and M. Mastrodicasa and S. Mastroianni and S. Miccichè and G. Miele and P. Migliozzi and E. Migneco and M. L. Mitsou and C. M. Mollo and L. Morales-Gallegos and M. Morga and A. Moussa and I. Mozun Mateo and R. Muller and M. R. Musone and M. Musumeci and S. Navas and A. Nayerhoda and C. A. Nicolau and B. Nkosi and B. Ó Fearraigh and V. Oliviero and A. Orlando and E. Oukacha and D. Paesani and J. Palacios González and G. Papalashvili and V. Parisi and E. J. Pastor Gomez and A. M. Paun and G. E. Pavalas and I. Pelegris and S. Peña Martínez and M. Perrin-Terrin and J. Perronnel and V. Pestel and R. Pestes and P. Piattelli and C. Poirè and V. Popa and T. Pradier and J. Prado and S. Pulvirenti and C. A. Quiroz-Rangel and U. Rahaman and N. Randazzo and R. Randriatoamanana and S. Razzaque and I. C. Rea and D. Real and G. Riccobene and J. Robinson and A. Romanov and A. Šaina and F. Salesa Greus and D. F. E. Samtleben and A. Sánchez Losa and S. Sanfilippo and M. Sanguineti and C. Santonastaso and D. Santonocito and P. Sapienza and J. Schnabel and J. Schumann and H. M. Schutte and J. Seneca and N. Sennan and B. Setter and I. Sgura and R. Shanidze and A. Sharma and Y. Shitov and F. Šimkovic and A. Simonelli and A. Sinopoulou and M. V. Smirnov and B. Spisso and M. Spurio and D. Stavropoulos and I. Štekl and M. Taiuti and Y. Tayalati and H. Thiersen and I. Tosta e Melo and E. Tragia and B. Trocmé and V. Tsourapis and A. Tudorache and E. Tzamariudaki and A. Vacheret and A. Valer Melchor and V. Valsecchi and V. Van Elewyck and G. Vannoye and G. Vasileiadis and F. Vazquez de Sola and C. Verilhac and A. Veutro and S. Viola and D. Vivolo and J. Wilms and E. de Wolf and H. Yepes-Ramirez and G. Zarpapis and S. Zavatarelli and A. Zegarelli and D. Zito and J. D. Zornoza and J. Zúñiga and N. Zywucka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.08363},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
20 pages, 30 figures, Published by EPJ-C