Expectations for high energy diffuse galactic neutrinos for different cosmic ray distributions

Understand

The interaction of cosmic rays with the gas contained in our Galaxy is a guaranteed source of diffuse high energy neutrinos.

• We provide expectations for this component by considering different assumptions for the cosmic ray distribution in the Galaxy which are intended to cover the large uncertainty in cosmic ray propagation models.
• We calculate the angular dependence of the diffuse galactic neutrino flux and the corresponding rate of High Energy Starting Events in IceCube by including the effect of detector angular resolution.
• Moreover we discuss the possibility to discriminate the galactic component from an isotropic astrophysical flux.