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The observation of high energy cosmic neutrinos can shed light on the astrophysical sites and mechanisms involved in the acceleration of protons and nuclei to the high energies observed at Earth by cosmic ray detectors. More generally, high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Juan Jose Hernandez-Rey

The present study investigates the feasibility of employing Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) technology for the detection of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino-tau particles. By observing the Cherenkov light produced by charged particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 Tariq Bitam , Bouzid Boussaha , Mossaab Messamah

The NuMoon project uses the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope to search for short radio pulses from the Moon. These pulses are created when an ultra high energy cosmic ray or neutrino initiates a particle cascade inside the Moon's…

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole. Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged secondary particles from neutrino interactions is observed by IceCube using an array of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Kevin J. Meagher

The RICE experiment seeks observation of ultra-high energy (UHE; >100 PeV) neutrinos interacting in Antarctic ice, by measurement of the radiowavelength Cherenkov radiation resulting from the collision of a neutrino with an ice molecule.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Ilya Kravchenko , Dave Seckel , Dave Besson , John Ralston , John Taylor , Ken Ratzlaff , Rob Young

A very efficient method to measure the flux of Ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos is through the detection of radio waves which are emitted by the particle shower in the lunar regolith. The highest acceptance is reached for radio waves in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Olaf Scholten , Arjen van Vliet

We discuss design considerations and simulation results for IceRay, a proposed large-scale ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrino detector at the South Pole. The array is designed to detect the coherent Askaryan radio emission from UHE neutrino…

The radio approach for detecting the ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos has become a mature field. The Cherenkov pulse in radio detection originates from the charge excess of particle showers due to Askaryan effect. The conventional way of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-29 Chia-Yu Hu , Chih-Ching Chen , Pisin Chen

Neutrino production of radio Cherenkov signals in the Moon is the object of radio telescope observations. Depending on the energy range and detection parameters, the dominant contribution to the neutrino signal may come from interactions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yu Seon Jeong , Mary Hall Reno , Ina Sarcevic

We review the phenomenology of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrino detection. The motivations for looking for such neutrinos stemming from observational evidence and the potential for new physics discoveries are enumerated, and their expected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Raj Gandhi

We present the status of the development of a Cherenkov telescope to be flown on a long-duration balloon flight, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2). EUSO-SPB2 is an approved NASA balloon mission that…

Searching for the Ultra high energy Cosmic rays and Neutrinos of $> 10^{20} eV$ is of great cosmological importance. A powerful technique is to search for the \v{C}erenkov radio emission caused by UHECR or UHE neutrinos impinging on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-29 Govind Swarup , Sukanta Panda

The recent demonstration by the CODALEMA Collaboration of the ability of the radio-detection technique for the characterization of UHE cosmic-rays calls for the use of this powerful method for the observation of UHE neutrinos. For this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Daniel Ardouin , Didier Charrier , Pascal Lautridou , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Olivier Ravel , Xiang-Ping Wu , Meng Zhao

Neutrino astrophysics offers new perspectives on the Universe investigation: high energy neutrinos, produced by the most energetic phenomena in our Galaxy and in the Universe, carry complementary (if not exclusive) information about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-11 T. Chiarusi , M. Spurio

In this paper we introduce the Terzina telescope as a part of the NUSES space mission. This telescope aims to detect Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) through the Cherenkov light emission from the extensive air showers (EAS) that they…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-08 Leonid Burmistrov

We show that at wavelengths comparable to the length of the shower produced by an Ultra-High Energy cosmic ray or neutrino, radio signals are an extremely efficient way to detect these particles. Through an example it is shown that this new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-25 O. Scholten , J. Bacelar , R. Braun , A. G. de Bruyn , H. Falcke , B. Stappers , R. G. Strom

Ultrahigh-energy neutrinos (UHE$\nu$s) can be used as a valuable probe of superheavy dark matter above $\sim 10^9$ GeV, the latter being difficult to probe with collider and direct detection experiments due to the feebly interacting nature.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Saikat Das , Jose Alonso Carpio , Kohta Murase

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects GeV-to-PeV+ neutrinos via the Cherenkov light produced by secondary charged particles from neutrino interactions with the South Pole ice. The detector consists of over 5000 spherical Digital Optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tianlu Yuan

This Letter of Intent (LoI) describes the outline and plan for the Neutrino Telescope Array (NTA) project. High-energy neutrinos provide unique and indisputable evidence for hadronic acceleration. Recently, IceCube has reported astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Makoto Sasaki , George Wei-Shu Hou

I consider the prospect to use the outer layer of the Moon as a detector volume for ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrino fluxes and the flux of the lightest neutralino which I assume is the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). For this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Sascha Bornhauser