Detection potential of the KM3NeT detector for high-energy neutrinos from the Fermi bubbles

S Adrián-Martínez,C Curtil,P Coyle,U Fritsch,B Vallage,E Migneco,M De Bel,K Roensch,A Miraglia,D Felea,A Radu,D Gajanana,C Racca,S Cecchini,G De Rosa,D Lo Presti,R Groenewegen,P Migliozzi,A Heijboer,C Sollima,M Billault,J Van Heerwaarden,M Sedita,D Lenis,O Kavatsyuk,F Gensolen,C Touramanis,F Druillole,A Calzas,F Colijn,G Decock,A Creusot,O Kalekin,S Beurthey,Y Kiskiras,R Masullo,P Timmer,A Spies,G Damy,P Vernin,D Lattuada,M Ferri,T Staller,A Papaikonomou,H Boer Rookhuizen,R De Asmundis,J.D Zornoza,Th Stolarczyk,V Popa,A Berkien,A Trovato,D Stransky,A Korporaal,S Stavrakakis,S Anvar,D Sciliberto,R Cereseto,P Piattelli,J Hößl,S Mangano,M Taiuti,S Reito,G Giacomelli,M Morganti,P Decowski,P Lotrus,C Distefano,G Cacopardo,M Circella,I Kreykenbohm,E Tzamariudaki,A Cosquer,V Flaminio,D Tonoiu,G Guillard,G Riccobene,V Gautard,S Ferry,C Gojak,C.D Llorens,S Tzamarias,E Heine,G Vannoni,J Marvaldi,A Belias,V Van Elewyck,E Barbarito,R Habel,I Siotis,A Enzenhöfer,J Zúñiga,C La Fratta,P Jansweijer,S Mos,M Cordelli,M Anghinolfi,A Bersani,H Yepes,P Werneke,C Markou,E Zonca,I Gialas,H Le Provost,K Geyer,G De Bonis,F Gasparoni,E Presani,D Palioselitis,U Emanuele,P Lagier,M Neff,A Ceres,B Bouhadef,L Trasatti,E Berbee,F Jouvenot,S Koutsoukos,F Salesa,M Karolak,Q Dorosti-Hasankiadeh,G Bourlis,L Caillat,B Herold,R Coniglione,N Randazzo,F Folger,F Louis,M Bonori,A Orlando,D Malyshev,G Wijnker,A Marinelli,V Lykousis,M Imbesi,T Seitz,S Minutoli,C Donzaud,E Monmarthe,F Guilloux,J Hogenbirk,M Ageron,V Giordano,R Garaguso,A Gleixner,J Koopstra,T Hillebrand,R Richter,R White ,H Motz,M De Jong,L F Thompson ,P Kooijman,F Simeone,J Wilms,E De Wolf,G.A Durand,J D Perkin ,G Marinaro,Emanuele Castorina ,S Biagi,O Mariş ,B Bigourdan,A Capone,F Lucarelli,J Busto,A Albert,P Koske,C Kopper,A Psallidas,Evangelos Markopoulos ,F Ameli,M Bou-Cabo,D Drouhin,D Vivolo,V Espinosa,G Larosa,J Giraud,F Cohen,P A Rapidis ,A Martini,Juan Bautista Martí Lloret ,J Carr,M Ardid,Nikoleta Bellou ,G Hallewell,C M Reed ,M C Bouwhuis ,R Shanidze,Κ Graf ,Mireno Borghini ,J Gómez-González ,P Lamare,D Real,J A Martínez-Mora ,F Urbano,T Chaleil ,J Rose,A Grimaldi,R Bakker,A Kappes,Stefania Sparnocchia ,S Toscano,D Calvo ,D Dornic,A.E Ball,G Maurin,A Leisos,H Löhner,L K Resvanis ,M Vecchi,G Chronis,J A Aguilar ,S Aiello,P Sapienza,S Escoffier,J J M Steijger ,J J Hernández-Rey ,S J Wagner ,M Hoek ,A Russo,G E Păvălaş ,Miquel Canals ,M Laan,P Favali,G Anton,Giuseppe Etiope ,A Kouchner,S Viola,Orlando Ciaffoni ,Marco Brunoldi ,Felicia Barbato ,V Kulikovskiy,P E Christopoulou ,A Rovelli,Harilaos Kontoyiannis ,P Traverso,P A Razis ,A Assis Jesus,Ioannis A Papazoglou ,J Schnabel,C Naumann ,R Papaleo,U Katz ,H Peek ,Antonio D’amico ,A M Brown ,C Nicolaou,H Kok,C.M Mollo,A M Taylor ,J.-P Ernenwein,F Bruni,K Papageorgiou,Imants George Priede ,J F Drogou ,Dominique Choqueuse ,V Sipala,G Lim,G C Barbarino ,Jessica Craig ,M Mongelli,M Kadler,T Eberl,J P Schuller ,Z Guédé,G.P Gasparini,Dario Grasso ,B Baret,V Bertín ,Jean-Samuel Roux ,M Spurio,J.j Aubert ,D F E Samtleben ,M Costa,É Delagnes ,F Château ,M Musumeci,E Leonora,P Keller,V Zhukov,A Margiotta,Nectaria Gizani ,A Fotiou,Eftychia C Marcoulaki ,E.G Anassontzis,F Aharonian,A Tsirigotis,Stella Bradbury ,T Chiarusi,Guido Mul ,N Kalantar‐Nayestanaki ,Hans Van Haren ,Y Moudden,F Schüßler ,P Musico,Julia Schmid ,Dominique Durand ,G Russo ,T Pradier,G Stavropoulos,L O’c Drury ,Christophe Rabouille ,M Alexandri,Jan-Willem Schmelling ,Katrin Schröeder ,Rizaldi Boer ,J Brünner ,C C Hsu ,Ralf Klein ,C Bigongiari,R Cocimano,Alan J Jamieson ,Jean-François Rolin ,R Lahmann

doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.11.010

Abstract

A recent analysis of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data provided evidence for a high-intensity emission of high-energy gamma rays with a E−2 spectrum from two large areas, spanning 50° above and below the Galactic centre (the “Fermi bubbles”). A hadronic mechanism was proposed for this gamma-ray emission making the Fermi bubbles promising source candidates of high-energy neutrino emission. In this work Monte Carlo simulations regarding the detectability of high-energy neutrinos from the Fermi bubbles with the future multi-km3 neutrino telescope KM3NeT in the Mediterranean Sea are presented. Under the hypothesis that the gamma-ray emission is completely due to hadronic processes, the results indicate that neutrinos from the bubbles could be discovered in about one year of operation, for a neutrino spectrum with a cutoff at 100TeV and a detector with about 6km3 of instrumented volume. The effect of a possible lower cutoff is also considered.

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