A hot spot in the neutrino flux created by cosmic rays from the Cygnus Loop [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13378


An analysis of 7.5 years of data in the high-energy starting event sample has been recently published by the IceCube collaboration. The hottest spot in a search for neutrino sources was found far above the Galactic plane and is thus, at first sight, difficult to reconcile with a Galactic origin. In this work, we calculate the cosmic ray (CR) density around nearby, young supernova remnants assuming anisotropic diffusion. Combining the obtained CR densities with the matter distribution deduced from extinction maps, we find two prominent hot spots: One of them is close to the most significant point in the IceCube search for point sources, with an intensity corresponding to two neutrino events.

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M. M.Bouyahiaoui, M. M.Kachelriess and D. D.V.Semikoz
Mon, 31 May 21
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Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures