Expected Performance of a Neutrino Telescope for Seeing AGN/GC Behind a Mountain

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the potential performance of a neutrino telescope using a mountain as a target, estimating its efficiency, acceptance, and flux limits for detecting high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources.

Contribution

It introduces a novel design for a neutrino telescope utilizing mountain interactions and provides performance estimates for a potential site on Hawaii.

Findings

Neutrino interaction efficiency with mountain material is analyzed.

Acceptance estimates for the proposed detector are provided.

Neutrino flux limits are comparable to existing detectors like AMANDA at high energies.

Abstract

We study the expected performance of building a neutrino telescope, which targets at energy greater than $10^{14}$ eV utilizing a mountain to interact with neutrinos. The telescope's efficiency in converting neutrinos into leptons is first examined. Then using a potential site on the Big Island of Hawaii, we estimate the acceptance of the proposed detector. The neutrino flux limit at event rate 0.3/year/half decade of energy is estimated to be comparable to that of AMANDA neutrino flux limit at above $10^{16}$ eV.