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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 96: Neutrinoastronomie III

T 96.6: Talk

Thursday, March 12, 2015, 18:00–18:15, I.12.02 (HS 31)

IceCube-Gen2 sensitivity improvement for steady neutrino point sources — •Stefan Coenders and Elisa Resconi for the IceCube collaboration — TU München, Physik-Department, Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching

The observation of an astrophysical neutrino flux by high-energy events starting in IceCube strengthens the search for sources of astrophysical neutrinos. Identification of these sources requires good pointing at high statistics, mainly using muons created by charged-current muon neutrino interactions going through the IceCube detector. We report about preliminary studies of a possible high-energy extension IceCube-Gen2. Using a 6 times bigger detection volume, effective area as well as reconstruction accuracy will improve with respect to IceCube. Moreover, using (in-ice) active veto techniques will significantly improve the performance for Southern hemisphere events, where possible local candidate neutrino sources are located.