Evaluation of the potential of a gamma-ray observatory to detect astrophysical neutrinos through inclined showers [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11072


We assess the capabilities of a ground-based gamma-ray observatory to detect astrophysical neutrinos with energies in the $100\,{\rm TeV}$ to $100\,{\rm PeV}$ range. The identification of these events would be done through the measurement of very inclined extensive air showers induced by downward-going and upward-going neutrinos. The discrimination of neutrino-induced showers in the overwhelming cosmic-ray background is achieved by analysing the balance of the total electromagnetic and muonic signals of the shower at the ground. We demonstrate that a ${\rm km^2}$-scale wide field-of-view ground-based gamma-ray observatory could detect a couple of Very-High to Ultra-High energy (VHE-UHE) neutrino events per year with a reasonable pointing accuracy, making it an interesting facility for multi-messenger studies with both photons and neutrinos.

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J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R. Conceição, P. Costa, et. al.
Wed, 24 Aug 22
63/67

Comments: 12 pages, 13 figures