Schumacher, LJ;
Huber, M;
Agostini, M;
Bustamante, M;
Oikonomou, F;
Resconi, E;
(2021)
PLEνM: A global and distributed monitoring system of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.
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(Proceedings) 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021).
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Abstract
High-energy astrophysical neutrinos, discovered by IceCube, are now regularly observed, albeit at a low rate due to their low flux. As a result, open questions about high-energy neutrino astrophysics and particle physics remain limited by statistics at best, or unanswered at worst. Fortunately, this situation will improve soon: in the next few years, a host of new neutrino telescopes, currently under planning and construction, will come online. It is natural to combine their collected observing power: we propose the Planetary Neutrino Monitoring System (PLE$\nu$M), a concept for a global repository of high-energy neutrino observations, in order to finally give firm answers to open questions. PLE$\nu$M will reach up to four times the exposure available today by combining the exposures of current and future neutrino telescopes distributed around the world -- IceCube, IceCube-Gen2, Baikal-GVD, KM3NeT, and P-ONE. Depending on the declination and spectral index, PLE$\nu$M will improve the sensitivity to astrophysical neutrinos by up to two orders of magnitude. We present first estimates on the capability of PLE$\nu$M to discover Galactic and extragalactic sources of astrophysical neutrinos and to characterize the diffuse flux of high-energy neutrinos in unprecedented detail.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | PLEνM: A global and distributed monitoring system of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos |
| Event: | 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.22323/1.395.1185 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.395.1185 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.HE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10132367 |
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