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The discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos has the potential to open a new window to study violent phenomena in our Universe, such as gamma-ray bursts, and to pose stringent tests to fundamental interactions. However, due to their low interaction cross-section, few experiments in the world can detect these particles.
The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) project aims to monitor the Southern sky in very-high-energy gamma rays. This detector is planned to cover a huge area with detection units based on the water-Cherenkov detection technology, thus being favorable for the detection of high-energy neutrinos.
While promising, the idea to use a gamma-ray observatory to detect high-energy neutrinos has to be better assessed via simulations and considerations regarding the cross section and flux of astrophysical neutrinos. The main goal is to evaluate the validity of using this detector setup to perform these measurements and to determine the sensitivity of SWGO to a flux of astrophysical neutrinos as a function of their energy.
