Neutrino Flux from Cosmic Ray Accelerators in the Cygnus Spiral Arm of the Galaxy
arXiv:astro-ph/0612699 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.067301 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.069906
Abstract
Intriguing evidence has been accumulating for the production of cosmic rays in the Cygnus region of the Galactic plane. We here show that the IceCube experiment can produce incontrovertible evidence for cosmic ray acceleration by observing neutrinos from the decay of charged pions accompanying the TeV photon flux observed in the HEGRA, Whipple, Tibet and Milagro experiments. Our assumption is that the TeV photons observed are the decay products of neutral pions produced by cosmic ray accelerators in the nearby spiral arm of the Galaxy. Because of the proximity of the sources, IceCube will obtain evidence at the 5sigma level in 15 years of observation.
Matching published version
References in corpus (7)
- Anisotropy and Corotation of Galactic Cosmic Rays
- Discovery of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Cygnus Region of the Galaxy
- Physics Reach of High-Energy and High-Statistics IceCube Atmospheric Neutrino Data
- Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope
- TeV gamma-rays and neutrinos from photo-disintegration of nuclei in Cygnus OB2
- Evidence for TeV gamma ray emission from TeV J2032+4130 in Whipple archival data
- TeV gamma-rays from photo-disintegration/de-excitation of cosmic-ray nuclei
Cited by in corpus (17)
- TeV Gamma Rays from Geminga and the Origin of the GeV Positron Excess
- A Measurement of the Spatial Distribution of Diffuse TeV Gamma Ray Emission from the Galactic Plane with Milagro
- Cosmic Neutrino Pevatrons: A Brand New Pathway to Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics
- On cosmic ray acceleration in supernova remnants and the FERMI/PAMELA data
- Identifying Galactic PeVatrons with Neutrinos
- Prospects for identifying the sources of the Galactic cosmic rays with IceCube
- In Search for Extraterrestrial High Energy Neutrinos
- Neutrino signal from extended Galactic sources in IceCube
- Neutrinos from Cosmic Ray Accelerators in the Cygnus Region of the Galaxy
- Searching for string resonances in e^+e^- and γγcollisions
- The Highest Energy Neutrinos
- IceCube Science
- Cosmic ray backgrounds for dark matter indirect detection
- Searching New Particles at Neutrino Telescopes with Quantum-Gravitational Decoherence
- High Energy Neutrino Telescopes
- Anomaly Puzzle, Curved-Spacetime Spinor Hamiltonian, and String Phenomenology
- Closing in on the sources of Galactic and extragalactic cosmic rays