4.6 Article

Limits on point-like sources of ultra-high-energy neutrinos with the Pierre Auger Observatory

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Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/11/004

Keywords

cosmic ray experiments; cosmological neutrinos; neutrino astronomy; ultra high energy cosmic rays

Funding

  1. Argentina -Comision Nacional de Eneria Atomica
  2. Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientfica y Tecnologica (ANPCyT)
  3. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientficas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
  4. Gobierno de la Provincia de Mendoza
  5. Municipalidad de Malargue
  6. NDM Holding
  7. Valle Las Lenas
  8. Australia \ the Australian Research Council
  9. Brazil \ Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientfico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
  10. Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP)
  11. Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
  12. Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2010/07359-6, 1999/05404-3]
  13. Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia, Inovacoes e Comunicacoes (MCTIC)
  14. Czech Republic \ [MSMT CR LTT18004, LO1305, LM2015038, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16 013/0001402]
  15. France\ Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS
  16. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
  17. Conseil Regional Ile-de-France
  18. Departement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire [PNC-IN2P3/CNRS]
  19. Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS)
  20. Institut Lagrange de Paris (ILP) within the Investissements d'Avenir Programme [LABEX ANR-10-LABX-63, ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02]
  21. Germany \ Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
  22. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  23. Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg
  24. Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP)
  25. Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
  26. Ministerium fur Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
  27. Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Wurttemberg
  28. Italy \ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
  29. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)
  30. Ministero dell'Istruzione,dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR)
  31. CETEMPS Center of Excellence
  32. Ministero degli Affari Esteri (MAE)
  33. Mexico -Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) [167733]
  34. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
  35. PAPIIT DGAPA-UNAM
  36. The Netherlands \ Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
  37. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
  38. Poland -Ministry of Science and Higher Education [DIR/WK/2018/11]
  39. SURF Cooperative
  40. National Science Centre [2013/08/M/ST9/00322, 2016/23/B/ST9/01635, HARMONIA 5-2013/10/M/ST9/00062, UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00198]
  41. Portugal \ FEDER funds within Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (COMPETE)
  42. Romania \ Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation CNCS/CCCDI-UESFISCDI within PNCDI III [PNIII-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0839/19PCCDI/2018, PN18090102]
  43. Slovenia \ Slovenian Research Agency [P1-0031, P1-0385, I0-0033, N1-0111]
  44. Spain \ Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad [FPA2017-85114-P, FPA2017-85197-P]
  45. Spain \ Xunta de Galicia [ED431C 2017/07]
  46. Spain \ Junta de Andalucia [SOMM17/6104/UGR]
  47. Spain \ Feder Funds
  48. Spain \ RENATA Red Nacional Tematica de Astroparticulas [FPA2015-68783-REDT]
  49. Spain \ Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence [MDM-2016-0692]
  50. U.S.A. \ Department of Energy [DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FR02-04ER41300, DE-FG02-99ER41107, DE-SC0011689]
  51. National Science Foundation [0450696]
  52. Grainger Foundation
  53. Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET
  54. European Particle Physics Latin American Network
  55. UNESCO
  56. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0011689] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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With the Surface Detector array (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory we can detect neutrinos with energy between 10(17) eV and 10(20) eV from point-like sources across the sky, from close to the Southern Celestial Pole up to 60 degrees in declination, with peak sensitivities at declinations around similar to -53 degrees and similar to +55 degrees, and an unmatched sensitivity for arrival directions in the Northern hemisphere. A search has been performed for highly-inclined air showers induced by neutrinos of all flavours with no candidate events found in data taken between 1 Jan 2004 and 31 Aug 2018. Upper limits on the neutrino flux from point-like steady sources have been derived as a function of source declination. An unrivaled sensitivity is achieved in searches for transient sources with emission lasting over an hour or less, if they occur within the field of view corresponding to the zenith angle range between 60 degrees and 95 degrees where the SD of the Pierre Auger Observatory is most sensitive to neutrinos.

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