Signatures of Precocious Unification in Orbiting Detectors
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-02-03 v3
Abstract
It has been conjectured that the string and unification scales may be substantially lower than previously believed, perhaps a few TeV. In scenarios of this type, orbiting detectors such OWL or AIRWATCH can observe spectacular phenomena at trans-GZK energies. We explore measurable signatures of the hypothesis that trans-GZK air showeres (``anomalous showers'') are originated by strongly interacting neutrinos. The results of a MC simulation of such air showers is described. A distinction between proton induced and ``anomalous'' showers becomes possible once a substantial sample of trans-GZK showers will be available.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011156,
title = {Signatures of Precocious Unification in Orbiting Detectors},
author = {G. Domokos and S. Kovesi-Domokos and William S. Burgett and Jason Wrinkle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011156},
year = {2010}
}
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LaTeX 2e, 14 pages, 5 figures. Revised and expanded version: MC rerun, figures redrawn, text revised and expanded