Impact of Galactic magnetic field modelling on searches of point sources via UHECR-Neutrino correlations

Abstract

We use the Jansson-Farrar JF12 magnetic field configuration in the context of point source searches by correlating the Telescope Array ultra-high energy cosmic ray data and the IceCube-40 neutrino candidates. As expected, we have found no correlations, thus, we devote this paper to the study of the effect of different magnetic field hypotheses on the minimum neutrino source flux strength required for a $5\sigma$ discovery and the derived $90\%$ CL upper limits. In this study we present a comparison between the JF12 field, that includes a combination of regular and random field components, and the standard turbulent magnetic field used in previous correlation analyses. For a wider perspective, we also incorporate in our comparison the cases of no magnetic field and the JF12 regular component alone and consider different power law indices $\alpha =2,\alpha =2.3$ for the neutrino point source flux. Collaterally, a novel parameterisation of the JF12 random component is introduced. We have observed that the discovery potential for a point source search is sensitive to changes in the magnetic field assumptions, being the difference between the models mentioned before between 15% and 26%.

8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables; submitted to PRD

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