par Abbasi, Rasha;Aguilar Sanchez, Juan Antonio 
;Chau, Thien Nhan ;Maris, Ioana Codrina ;Schlüter, Felix ;Toscano, Simona ; [et al.]
Référence (26 July 2023 through 3 August 2023: Nagoya), 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023, Pos proceedings of science (444), 1116
Publication Publié, 2024-03-01
;Chau, Thien Nhan ;Maris, Ioana Codrina ;Schlüter, Felix ;Toscano, Simona ; [et al.]Référence (26 July 2023 through 3 August 2023: Nagoya), 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023, Pos proceedings of science (444), 1116
Publication Publié, 2024-03-01
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| Résumé : | The interaction of cosmic rays with the solar atmosphere generates a secondary flux of mesons that decay into photons and neutrinos – the so-called solar atmospheric flux. Although the gamma-ray component of this flux has been observed in Fermi-LAT and HAWC Observatory data, the neutrino component remains undetected. The energy distribution of those neutrinos follows a soft spectrum that extends from the GeV to the multi-TeV range, making large Cherenkov neutrino telescopes a suitable for probing this flux. In this contribution, we will discuss current progress of a search for the solar neutrino flux by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory using all available data since 2011. Compared to the previous analysis which considered only high-energy muon neutrino tracks, we will additionally consider events produced by all flavors of neutrinos down to GeV-scale energies. These new events should improve our analysis sensitivity since the flux falls quickly with energy. Determining the magnitude of the neutrino flux is essential, since it is an irreducible background to indirect solar dark matter searches. |
