Sensitivity of the NEMO detector to galactic microquasars

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the NEMO km$^3$ telescope's ability to detect TeV neutrinos from galactic microquasars through Monte Carlo simulations, optimizing detection strategies and estimating event rates.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed sensitivity analysis of the NEMO detector for galactic microquasars using Monte Carlo simulations.

Findings

Sensitivity estimates for each microquasar

Optimized event selection methods

Expected source and background event counts

Abstract

We present the results of Monte Carlo simulation studies of the capability of the proposed NEMO km$^3$ telescope to detect TeV muon neutrinos from Galactic microquasars. In particular we determined the detector sensitivity to each known microquasar, optimizing the event selection in order to reject the atmospheric background. We also determined the expected number of source and background events surviving the selection.