  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. We show that a statistically
significant excess of events from the galactic plane in present IceCube data
would favour models in which the cosmic ray density in the inner galactic
region is much larger than its local value, thus bringing relevant information
on the cosmic ray radial distribution.
