{
  "id": "2207.11940",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2022-07-25T07:09:30.000Z",
  "updated": "2022-07-25T07:09:30.000Z",
  "title": "Point sources of ultra-high-energy neutrinos: minimalist predictions for near-future discovery",
  "authors": [
    "Damiano F. G. Fiorillo",
    "Mauricio Bustamante",
    "Victor B. Valera"
  ],
  "comment": "Submission to SciPost Phys. Proc., presented at the 21st International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2022)",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "hep-ex",
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "The discovery of ultra-high-energy neutrinos, with energies above 100 PeV, may soon be within reach of upcoming neutrino telescopes. We present a robust framework to compute the statistical significance of point-source discovery via the detection of neutrino multiplets. We apply it to the radio array component of IceCube-Gen2. To identify a source with $3\\sigma$ significance, IceCube-Gen2 will need to detect a triplet, at best, and an octuplet, at worst, depending on whether the source is steady-state or transient, and on its position in the sky. The discovery, or absence, of sources significantly constrains the properties of the source population.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2022-07-25T07:09:30.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "ultra-high-energy neutrinos",
      "near-future discovery",
      "minimalist predictions",
      "point sources",
      "radio array component"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}