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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 79: Neutrinoastronomie III

T 79.3: Talk

Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 17:20–17:35, KGI-HS 1221

HE Neutrino Sensitivity to Galactic Sources — •Yolanda Sestayo, Andreas Groß, Elisa Resconi, and Olaf Schulz for the IceCube collaboration — Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg

Preditions on a possible emission of high energy neutrinos from galactic sources can be extracted from the measurements of VHE gamma-rays under the assumption that proton-proton is the dominant interaction channel in such astrophysical environments. We report in this talk the conditions required to produce the observed gamma-ray flux through pp interactions as well as an estimation of the expected neutrino spectrum for sources transparent and non transparent to gamma-rays. The IceCube sensitivity to such predictions for the current configuration of IceCube (22 strings and AMANDA) and for the complete IceCube with its 80 strings is presented as well as the time required for IceCube to observe the predicted neutrino flux from each of the selected sources.