Upward-Pointing Cosmic-Ray-like Events Observed with ANITA
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2018-10-02 v1
Abstract
These proceedings address a recent publication by the ANITA collaboration of four upward- pointing cosmic-ray-like events observed in the first flight of ANITA. Three of these events were consistent with stratospheric cosmic-ray air showers where the axis of propagation does not inter- sect the surface of the Earth. The fourth event was consistent with a primary particle that emerges from the surface of the ice suggesting a possible {\tau}-lepton decay as the origin of this event. These proceedings follow-up on the modeling and testing of the hypothesis that this event was of {\tau} neutrino origin.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.00439,
title = {Upward-Pointing Cosmic-Ray-like Events Observed with ANITA},
author = {Andres Romero-Wolf and P. W. Gorham and J. Nam and S. Hoover and P. Allison and O. Banerjee and L. Batten and J. J. Beatty and K. Belov and D. Z. Besson and W. R. Binns and V. Bugaev and P. Cao and C. Chen and P. Chen and J. M. Clem and A. Connolly and B. Dailey and C. Deaconu and L. Cremonesi and P. F. Dowkontt and M. A. DuVernois and R. C. Field and B. D. Fox and D. Goldstein and J. Gordon and C. Hast and C. L. Hebert and B. Hill and K. Hughes and R. Hupe and M. H. Israel and A. Javaid and J. Kowalski and J. Lam and A. Ludwig and J. G. Learned and K. M. Liewer and T. C. Liu and J. T. Link and E. Lusczek and S. Matsuno and B. C. Mercurio and C. Miki and P. Miocinovic and M. Mottram and K. Mulrey and C. J. Naudet and J. Ng and R. J. Nichol and A. Novikov and K. Palladino and S. Prohira and B. F. Rauch and K. Reil and J. Roberts and M. Rosen and B. Rotter and J. Russell and L. Ruckman and D. Saltzberg and D. Seckel and S. Stafford and J. Stockham and M. Stockham and B. Strutt and K. Tatem and G. S. Varner and A. G. Vieregg and D. Walz and S. A. Wissel and F. Wu and J. Alvarez-Muñiz and W. Carvalho and H. Schoorlemmer and E. Zas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00439},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures, presented at the International Cosmic Ray Conference 2017, Busan, South Korea