Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane

Icecube Collaboration

doi:10.1126/science.adc9818

Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane

Icecube Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy

Loyola University Chicago
German Electron Synchrotron
University of Canterbury
Université libre de Bruxelles
University of Copenhagen
Oskar Klein Centre
TU Dortmund University
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
University of Delaware
Marquette University
Pennsylvania State University
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Harvard University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
University of California at Irvine
University of California at Berkeley
Ohio State University
University of Wuppertal
Ruhr University Bochum
Uppsala University
Technical University of Munich
University of Rochester
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Padua
University of Kansas
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
RWTH Aachen University
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Geneva

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Abstract

The origin of high-energy cosmic rays, atomic nuclei that continuously impact Earth's atmosphere, is unknown. Because of deflection by interstellar magnetic fields, cosmic rays produced within the Milky Way arrive at Earth from random directions. However, cosmic rays interact with matter near their sources and during propagation, which produces high-energy neutrinos. We searched for neutrino emission using machine learning techniques applied to 10 years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. By comparing diffuse emission models to a background-only hypothesis, we identified neutrino emission from the Galactic plane at the 4.5s level of significance. The signal is consistent with diffuse emission of neutrinos from the Milky Way but could also arise from a population of unresolved point sources.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1338-1343
Number of pages	6
Journal	Science
Volume	380
Issue number	6652
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adc9818
State	Published - Jun 30 2023

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Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane

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