A Search for Neutrinos from Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Neutrinos are a unique cosmic messenger that travels directly to us without scattering or interacting with intergalactic or galactic matter. They are - among many other things - a smoking gun for signatures of hadronic acceleration. The highest-energy and brightest objects in our galaxy are Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), but we know very little about their nature, in particular whether they are hadronic or leptonic. This analysis searches for neutrinos from PWNe, which are uniquely situated to help us solve this mystery. This will be the most sensitive search ever for neutrinos from PWNe, using 14 years of IceCube data and a source class of 50 total possible and confirmed PWNe with gamma-ray emission above 1 TeV. This analysis will be a unique probe of the acceleration mechanisms in these sources. I will present work towards a search for neutrinos from PWNe.