Probing the Galactic Neutrino Flux at Neutrino Energies above 200 TeV with the Baikal Gigaton Volume Detector

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作者
Allakhverdyan, V. A. [1 ]
Avrorin, A. D. [2 ]
Avrorin, A. V. [2 ]
Aynutdinov, V. M. [2 ]
Bardacova, Z. [3 ,4 ]
Belolaptikov, I. A. [1 ]
Bondarev, E. A. [2 ]
Borina, I. V. [1 ]
Budnev, N. M. [5 ]
Chadymov, V. A.
Chepurnov, A. S. [6 ]
Dik, V. Y. [1 ,7 ]
Domogatsky, G. V. [2 ]
Doroshenko, A. A. [2 ]
Dvornicky, R. [3 ]
Dyachok, A. N. [5 ]
Dzhilkibaev, Zh. -A. M. [2 ]
Eckerova, E. [3 ,4 ]
Elzhov, T. V. [1 ]
Fomin, V. N.
Gafarov, A. R. [5 ]
Golubkov, K. V. [2 ]
Gorshkov, N. S. [1 ]
Gress, T. I. [5 ]
Kebkal, K. G. [8 ]
Kebkal, V. K. [8 ]
Kharuk, I. V. [2 ]
Khramov, E. V. [1 ]
Kleimenov, M. I. [2 ]
Kolbin, M. M. [1 ]
Koligaev, S. O. [9 ]
Konischev, K. V. [1 ]
Korobchenko, A. V. [1 ]
Koshechkin, A. P. [2 ]
Kozhin, V. A. [6 ]
Kruglov, M. V. [1 ]
Kulepov, V. F. [10 ]
Kulikov, A. A. [5 ]
Lemeshev, Y. E. [5 ]
Mirgazov, R. R. [5 ]
Naumov, D. V. [1 ]
Nikolaev, A. S. [6 ]
Perevalova, I. A. [5 ]
Petukhov, D. P. [2 ]
Pliskovsky, E. N. [1 ]
Rozanov, M. I. [11 ]
Ryabov, E. V. [5 ]
Safronov, G. B. [2 ]
Shaybonov, B. A. [1 ]
Shishkin, V. Y. [6 ]
机构
[1] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Russia
[2] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, 60th October Anniversary Prospect 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
[3] Comenius Univ, Bratislava 81499, Slovakia
[4] Czech Tech Univ, Prague, Czech Republic
[5] Irkutsk State Univ, Irkutsk 664003, Russia
[6] Lomonosov Moscow State Univ, MIPT, Moscow, Russia
[7] Inst Nucl Phys ME RK, Alma Ata 050032, Kazakhstan
[8] RCH, St Petersburg, Russia
[9] INFRAD, Dubna 141981, Russia
[10] Nizhnii Novgorod State Tech Univ, Nizhnii Novgorod 603950, Russia
[11] State Marine Tech Univ Sankt Petersburg, St Petersburg 190008, Russia
[12] Max Planck Inst Radioastron, Hugel 69, D-53121 Heidelberg, Germany
[13] Harvard Univ, Black Hole Initiat, 20 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[14] Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, CEA IRFU,CNRS IN2P3, Paris, France
[15] Lomonosov Moscow State Univ, Phys Dept, 1-2 Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia
关键词
GAMMA-RAY EMISSION; FERMI-LAT; ICECUBE; SEARCH; CONSTRAINTS; ANTARES; ORIGIN;
D O I
10.3847/1538-4357/adb630
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Recent observations of the Galactic component of the high-energy neutrino flux, together with the detection of the diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission up to sub-PeV energies, open new possibilities to study the acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. At the same time, both large nonastrophysical backgrounds at TeV energies and the scarcity of neutrino events in the sub-PeV band currently limit these analyses. Here, we use the sample of cascade events with estimated neutrino energies above 200 TeV, detected by the partially deployed Baikal Gigaton Volume Detector (GVD) in 6 yr of operation, to test the continuation of the Galactic neutrino spectrum to sub-PeV energies. We find that the distribution of the arrival directions of Baikal-GVD cascades above 200 TeV in the sky suggests an excess of neutrinos from low Galactic latitudes with the chance probability of 1.4 x 10-2. We also find the excess above 200 TeV in the most recent IceCube public data sets, both of cascades and tracks. The chance probability of the excess in the combined IceCube and Baikal-GVD analysis is 3.4 x 10-4. The flux of Galactic neutrinos above 200 TeV challenges often-used templates for neutrino search based on cosmic-ray simulations.
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