Characterization of the background for a neutrino search with the HAWC observatory
Abstract
The close location of the HAWC observatory to the largest volcano in Mexico allows to perform a search for neutrino-induced horizontal muon and tau charged leptons. The section of the volcano located at the horizon reaches values of slant depth larger than 8 km of rock, making it an excellent shield for the cosmic ray horizontal background. We report the search method and background suppression technique developed for the detection of Earth-skimming neutrinos with HAWC, as well as a model that describes the remaining background produced by scattered muons. We show that by increasing the detection energy threshold we could use HAWC to search for neutrino-induced charged leptons.
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@article{arxiv.2108.07767,
title = {Characterization of the background for a neutrino search with the HAWC observatory},
author = {HAWC Collaboration and A. Albert and R. Alfaro and C. Alvarez and J. R. Angeles Camacho and J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez and K. P. Arunbabu and E. Belmont-Moreno and K. S. Caballero-Mora and T. Capistrán and A. Carramiñana and S. Casanova and U. Cotti and J. Cotzomi and S. Coutiño de León and E. De la Fuente and R. Diaz Hernandez and M. A. DuVernois and M. Durocher and C. Espinoza and K. L. Fan and N. Fraija and D. Garcia and J. A. García-González and F. Garfias and M. M. González and J. A. Goodman and D. Huang and F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla and P. Hüntemeyer and A. Iriarte and A. Jardin-Blicq and D. Kieda and A. Lara and W. H. Lee and H. León Vargas and A. L. Longinotti and G. Luis-Raya and K. Malone and J. Martínez-Castro and J. A. Matthews and P. Miranda-Romagnoli and J. A. Morales-Soto and E. Moreno and A. Nayerhoda and L. Nellen and R. Noriega-Papaqui and N. Omodei and A. Peisker and E. G. Pérez-Pérez and C. D. Rho and D. Rosa-González and A. Sandoval and J. Serna-Franco and R. W. Springer and K. Tollefson and I. Torres and R. Torres-Escobedo and F. Ureña-Mena and L. Villaseñor and H. Zhou and C. de León},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07767},
year = {2022}
}
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