%0 Journal Article
%T Detection potential of the KM3NeT detector for high-energy neutrinos from the Fermi bubbles
%A KM3NeT Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al
%A Aguilar, J. A.
%A Bigongiari, C.
%A Calvo Diaz-Aldagalan, D.
%A Emanuele, U.
%A Gomez-Gonzalez, J. P.
%A Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
%A Mangano, S.
%A Real, D.
%A Ruiz-Rivas, J.
%A Salesa, F.
%A Toscano, S.
%A Urbano, F.
%A Yepes, H.
%A Zornoza, J. D.
%A Zuñiga, J.
%J Astroparticle Physics
%D 2013
%V 42
%I Elsevier Science Bv
%@ 0927-6505
%G English
%F KM3NeTCollaborationAdrian-Martinez_etal2013
%O WOS:000315371900002
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1352), last updated on Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:11:39 +0000
%X 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-km(3) 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 100 TeV and a detector with about 6 km(3) of instrumented volume. The effect of a possible lower cutoff is also considered.
%K Neutrino telescope
%K Fermi Bubbles
%K KM3NeT
%R 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.11.010
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1226
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.11.010
%P 7-14