Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino telescope to point-like neutrino sources
Creators: name: The KM3NeT Collaboration
name: Aiello, S.
name: Akrame, S. E.
name: Ameli, F.
name: Anassontzis, E. G.
name: Andre, M.
name: Androulakis, G.
name: Anghinolfi, M.
name: Anton, G.
name: Ardid, M.
name: Aublin, J.
name: Avgitas, T.
name: Bagatelas, C.
name: Barbarino, G.
name: Baret, B.
name: Barrios-Martí, J.
name: Belias, A.
name: Berbee, E.
name: Berg, A. van den
name: Bertin, V.
name: Biagi, S.
name: Biagioni, A.
name: Biernoth, C.
name: Boumaaza, J.
name: Bourret, S.
name: Bouta, M.
name: Bouwhuis, M.
name: Bozza, C.
name: Brânzas, H.
name: Bruchner, M.
name: Bruijn, R.
name: Brunner, J.
name: Buis, E.
name: Buompane, R.
name: Busto, J.
name: Calvo, D.
name: Capone, A.
name: Celli, S.
name: Chabab, M.
name: Chau, N.
name: Cherubini, S.
name: Chiarella, V.
name: Chiarusi, T.
name: Circella, M.
name: Cocimano, R.
name: Coelho, J. A. B.
name: Coleiro, A.
name: Molla, M. Colomer
name: Coniglione, R.
name: Coyle, P.
name: Creusot, A.
name: Cuttone, G.
name: D'Onofrio, A.
name: Dallier, R.
name: De Sio, C.
name: Di Palma, I.
name: Díaz, A. F.
name: Diego-Tortosa, D.
name: Distefano, C.
name: Domi, A.
name: Donà, R.
name: Donzaud, C.
name: Dornic, D.
name: Dörr, M.
name: Durocher, M.
name: Eberl, T.
name: van Eijk, D.
name: Bojaddaini, I. El
name: Eljarrari, H.
name: Elsaesser, D.
name: Enzenhöfer, A.
name: Fermani, P.
name: Ferrara, G.
name: Filipovic, M. D.
name: Fusco, L. A.
name: Gal, T.
name: Garcia, A.
name: Garufi, F.
name: Gialanella, L.
name: Giorgio, E.
name: Giuliante, A.
name: Gozzini, S. R.
name: Gracia, R.
name: Graf, K.
name: Grasso, D.
name: Grégoire, T.
name: Grella, G.
name: Hallmann, S.
name: Hamdaoui, H.
name: van Haren, H.
name: Heid, T.
name: Heijboer, A.
name: Hekalo, A.
name: Hernández-Rey, J. J.
name: Hofestädt, J.
name: Illuminati, G.
name: James, C. W.
name: Jongen, M.
name: de Jong, M.
name: de Jong, P.
name: Kadler, M.
name: Kalaczynski, P.
name: Kalekin, O.
name: Katz, U. F.
name: Chowdhury, N. R. Khan
name: Kiessling, D.
name: Koffeman, E. N.
name: Kooijman, P.
name: Kouchner, A.
name: Kreter, M.
name: Kulikovskiy, V.
name: Kunhikannan-Kannichankandy, M.
name: Lahmann, R.
name: Larosa, G.
name: Breton, R. Le
name: Leone, F.
name: Leonora, E.
name: Levi, G.
name: Lincetto, M.
name: Lonardo, A.
name: Longhitano, F.
name: Coto, D. Lopez
name: Lotze, M.
name: Maderer, L.
name: Maggi, G.
name: Manczak, J.
name: Mannheim, K.
name: Margiotta, A.
name: Marinelli, A.
name: Markou, C.
name: Martin, L.
name: Martínez-Mora, J. A.
name: Martini, A.
name: Marzaioli, F.
name: Mele, R.
name: Melis, K. W.
name: Migliozzi, P.
name: Migneco, E.
name: Mijakowski, P.
name: Miranda, L. S.
name: Mollo, C. M.
name: Morganti, M.
name: Moser, M.
name: Moussa, A.
name: Muller, R.
name: Musumeci, M.
name: Nauta, L.
name: Navas, S.
name: Nicolau, C. A.
name: Nielsen, C.
name: Fearraigh, B. Ó
name: Organokov, M.
name: Orlando, A.
name: Ottonello, S.
name: Panagopoulos, V.
name: Papalashvili, G.
name: Papaleo, R.
name: Păvălaş, G. E.
name: Pellegrino, C.
name: Perrin-Terrin, M.
name: Piattelli, P.
name: Pikounis, K.
name: Pisanti, O.
name: Poirè, C.
name: Polydefki, G.
name: Popa, V.
name: Post, M.
name: Pradier, T.
name: Pühlhofer, G.
name: Pulvirenti, S.
name: Quinn, L.
name: Raffaelli, F.
name: Randazzo, N.
name: Razzaque, S.
name: Real, D.
name: Resvanis, L.
name: Reubelt, J.
name: Riccobene, G.
name: Richer, M.
name: Rigalleau, L.
name: Rovelli, A.
name: Saffer, M.
name: Salvadori, I.
name: Samtleben, D. F. E.
name: Losa, A. Sánchez
name: Sanguineti, M.
name: Santangelo, A.
name: Santonocito, D.
name: Sapienza, P.
name: Schumann, J.
name: Sciacca, V.
name: Seneca, J.
name: Sgura, I.
name: Shanidze, R.
name: Sharma, A.
name: Simeone, F.
name: Sinopoulou, A.
name: Spisso, B.
name: Spurio, M.
name: Stavropoulos, D.
name: Steijger, J.
name: Stellacci, S. M.
name: Strandberg, B.
name: Stransky, D.
name: Stüven, T.
name: Taiuti, M.
name: Tatone, F.
name: Tayalati, Y.
name: Tenllado, E.
name: Thakore, T.
name: Trovato, A.
name: Tzamariudaki, E.
name: Tzanetatos, D.
name: Van Elewyck, V.
name: Versari, F.
name: Viola, S.
name: Vivolo, D.
name: Wilms, J.
name: de Wolf, E.
name: Zaborov, D.
name: Zornoza, J. D.
name: Zúñiga, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: KM3NeT will be a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ARCA detector, to be installed at the Capo Passero site (Italy), is optimised for the detection of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic origin. Thanks to its geographical location on the Northern hemisphere, KM3NeT/ARCA can observe upgoing neutrinos from most of the Galactic Plane, including the Galactic Centre. Given its effective area and excellent pointing resolution, KM3NeT/ARCA will measure or significantly constrain the neutrino flux from potential astrophysical neutrino sources. At the same time, it will test flux predictions based on gamma-ray measurements and the assumption that the gamma-ray flux is of hadronic origin. Assuming this scenario, discovery potentials and sensitivities for a selected list of Galactic sources and to generic point sources with an $E^{-2}$ spectrum are presented. These spectra are assumed to be time independent. The results indicate that an observation with $3σ$ significance is possible in about six years of operation for the most intense sources, such as Supernovae Remnants RX\,J1713.7-3946 and Vela Jr. If no signal will be found during this time, the fraction of the gamma-ray flux coming from hadronic processes can be constrained to be below 50\% for these two objects.
description: 32 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Astroparticle Physics