Speaker
Emily Simon
(University of Chicago)
Description
Neutrinos provide unambiguous evidence of cosmic-ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs), as they are produced exclusively in hadronic interactions. Detecting neutrinos from a SNR would offer direct confirmation of CR proton interactions and energy distributions. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive survey of Galactic SNRs to identify the most promising hadronic candidates. For this subset, we model the expected neutrino spectra and compile a prioritized source list for a future IceCube stacking analysis. Excluding leptonic-dominated SNRs from IceCube analyses is crucial for improving the signal-to-noise ratio and has the potential to enable the first detection of Galactic SNRs in neutrinos.
Author
Emily Simon
(University of Chicago)
Co-authors
Damiano Caprioli
(University of Chicago)
Rebecca Diesing
(University of Chicago)
Stephen Sclafani
(University of Maryland)