Joint Constraints on Galactic Diffuse Neutrino Emission from the ANTARES and IceCube Neutrino Telescopes

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Aug 10, 2018
7 pages
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  • Astrophys.J.Lett. 868 (2018) 2, L20
  • Published: Nov 20, 2018
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Abstract: (IOP)
The existence of diffuse Galactic neutrino production is expected from cosmic-ray interactions with Galactic gas and radiation fields. Thus, neutrinos are a unique messenger offering the opportunity to test the products of Galactic cosmic-ray interactions up to energies of hundreds of TeV. Here we present a search for this production using ten years of Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch (ANTARES) track and shower data, as well as seven years of IceCube track data. The data are combined into a joint likelihood test for neutrino emission according to the KRA model assuming a 5 PeV per nucleon Galactic cosmic-ray cutoff. No significant excess is found. As a consequence, the limits presented in this Letter start constraining the model parameter space for Galactic cosmic-ray production and transport.
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  • 5 figures
  • cosmic rays
  • diffusion
  • Galaxy: disk
  • gamma rays: diffuse background
  • neutrinos
  • cosmic radiation: galaxy
  • cosmic radiation: interaction
  • cosmic radiation: spectrum
  • cosmic radiation: production
  • neutrino: production
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