POEMMA: Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
Abstract
The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) mission is being designed to establish charged-particle astronomy with ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and to observe cosmogenic tau neutrinos (CTNs). The study of UHECRs and CTNs from space will yield orders-of-magnitude increase in statistics of observed UHECRs at the highest energies, and the observation of the cosmogenic flux of neutrinos for a range of UHECR models. These observations should solve the long-standing puzzle of the origin of the highest energy particles ever observed, providing a new window onto the most energetic environments and events in the Universe, while studying particle interactions well beyond accelerator energies. The discovery of CTNs will help solve the puzzle of the origin of UHECRs and begin a new field of Astroparticle Physics with the study of neutrino properties at ultra-high energies.
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@article{arxiv.1708.07599,
title = {POEMMA: Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics},
author = {A. V. Olinto and J. H. Adams and R. Aloisio and L. A. Anchordoqui and D. R. Bergman and M. E. Bertaina and P. Bertone and M. Bustamante and M. J. Christl and S. E. Csorna and J. B. Eser and F. Fenu and C. Guépin and E. A. Hays and S. Hunter and E. Judd and I. Jun and K. Kotera and J. F. Krizmanic and E. Kuznetsov and S. Mackovjak and L. M. Martinez-Sierra and M. Mastafa and J. N. Matthews and J. McEnery and J. W. Mitchell and A. Neronov and A. N. Otte and E. Parizot and T. C. Paul and J. S. Perkins and G. Prevot and P. Reardon and M. H. Reno and F. Sarazin and K. Shinozaki and F. Stecker and R. Streitmatter and T. Venters and L. Wiencke and R. M. Young},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.07599},
year = {2017}
}
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8 pages, in the Proceedings of the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC217, Busan, Korea