On the Study of Solar Flares with Neutrino Observatories
Since the end of the eighties, in response to a reported increase of the total neutrino flux in the Homestake experiment in coincidence with solar flares, neutrino detectors have searched for signals of neutrinos associated with solar flare activity. Protons which are accelerated by the magnetic str...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1606.00681 2023-05-15T18:22:39+02:00 On the Study of Solar Flares with Neutrino Observatories de Wasseige, G. 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1606.00681 https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00681 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE Solar and Stellar Astrophysics astro-ph.SR FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1606.00681 2022-04-01T11:06:56Z Since the end of the eighties, in response to a reported increase of the total neutrino flux in the Homestake experiment in coincidence with solar flares, neutrino detectors have searched for signals of neutrinos associated with solar flare activity. Protons which are accelerated by the magnetic structures of such flares may collide with the solar atmosphere, producing mesons which subsequently decay, resulting in neutrinos at O(MeV-GeV) energies. The study of such neutrinos would provide a new window on the underlying physics of the acceleration process. The sensitivity to solar flares of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographical South Pole, is currently under study. We introduce a new approach for a time profile analysis. This is based on a stacking method of selected solar flares which are likely to be connected with pion production. An initial approach towards a neutrino search using the current IceCube experiment as well as first efforts to improve the detection efficiency in the future are presented. : Based on YSF talk given at Moriond EW 2016. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1512.00204 Report South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole |
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Since the end of the eighties, in response to a reported increase of the total neutrino flux in the Homestake experiment in coincidence with solar flares, neutrino detectors have searched for signals of neutrinos associated with solar flare activity. Protons which are accelerated by the magnetic structures of such flares may collide with the solar atmosphere, producing mesons which subsequently decay, resulting in neutrinos at O(MeV-GeV) energies. The study of such neutrinos would provide a new window on the underlying physics of the acceleration process. The sensitivity to solar flares of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographical South Pole, is currently under study. We introduce a new approach for a time profile analysis. This is based on a stacking method of selected solar flares which are likely to be connected with pion production. An initial approach towards a neutrino search using the current IceCube experiment as well as first efforts to improve the detection efficiency in the future are presented. : Based on YSF talk given at Moriond EW 2016. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1512.00204 |
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On the Study of Solar Flares with Neutrino Observatories |
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On the Study of Solar Flares with Neutrino Observatories |
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On the Study of Solar Flares with Neutrino Observatories |
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On the Study of Solar Flares with Neutrino Observatories |
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On the Study of Solar Flares with Neutrino Observatories |
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