23–27 Sept 2024
Hotel Villa Tuscolana
Europe/Rome timezone

Looking at the Central Molecular Zone and Cygnus region with the KM3NeT/ARCA telescope

24 Sept 2024, 21:29
17m
Foyer Vittorio Emanuele

Foyer Vittorio Emanuele

Speaker

Dr Marouane Benhassi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

In this contribution, a search for neutrino emission from the Central
Molecular Zone (CMZ) and the Cygnus region is presented exploiting
KM3NeT/ARCA capabilities.
The CMZ extends for few hundred parsecs around the Galactic centre,
containing the massive molecular clouds Sgr A, Sgr B, and Sgr C.
On the other hand, the Cygnus region is a massive star-forming region
of few hundred parsecs in the constellation of Cygnus. It host a high gas density too and a rich stellar population. The high energy emission from these regions is expected to be dominated by the interactions of cosmic-rays with the molecular gas, which translate into granted gamma-rays and neutrinos production.
Here we explored the sensitivity level of the actual KM3NeT/ARCA geom-
etry and we set upper limits for both regions. Moreover, we also explored the case of the full KM3NeT/ARCA detector geometry.

Primary author

Dr Marouane Benhassi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Co-authors

Antonio Marinelli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Pasquale Migliozzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Mr Riccardo Maria Bozza (2Universita degli studi di Napoli ”Federico II”, INFN - Sezione di Napoli Italy)

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