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Neutrinos are unique cosmic messengers. Present attempts are directed to extend the window of cosmic neutrino observation from low energies (Sun, supernovae) to much higher energies. The aim is to study the most violent processes in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ulrich F. Katz , Christian Spiering

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II (EUSO-SPB2) is a second generation stratospheric balloon instrument for the detection of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs, E > 1 EeV) via the fluorescence technique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 J. Eser , A. V. Olinto , L. Wiencke

Neutrino telescopes are moving steadily toward the goal of detecting astrophysical neutrinos from the most powerful galactic and extragalactic sources. Here we describe analysis methods to search for high energy point-like neutrino sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jim Braun , Jon Dumm , Francesco De Palma , Chad Finley , Albrecht Karle , Teresa Montaruli

ANTARES is the first undersea neutrino detector ever built and presently the neutrino telescope with the largest effective area operating in the Northern Hemisphere. A three- dimensional array of photomultiplier tubes detects the Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Ciro Bigongiari

Weakly interacting neutrinos are ideal astronomical messengers because they travel through space without deflection by magnetic fields and, essentially, without absorption. Their weak interaction also makes them notoriously difficult to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-01 Markus Ahlers , Francis Halzen

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is a neutrino experiment at the South Pole, designed to detect radio-frequency emissions produced by interactions of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos with the Antarctic ice. The array consists of five…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Pawan Giri

Neutrino astronomy beyond the Sun was first imagined in the late 1950s; by the 1970s, it was realized that kilometer-scale neutrino detectors were required. The first such instrument, IceCube, is near completion and taking data. The IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-15 Francis Halzen , Spencer R. Klein

The investigation of neutrino interactions with matter serves as a valuable tool for understanding the fundamental structure of nucleons and potentially uncovering novel physics phenomena. To date, the neutrino-nucleon cross section has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-21 Victor B. Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Christian Glaser

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer-scale neutrino detector at the geographic South Pole, has reached a number of milestones in the field of neutrino astrophysics: the discovery of a high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Aya Ishihara

After briefly reviewing various hadronic neutrino source models, we show how to construct generic upper flux bounds. We then turn to the problem of neutrino propagation through the inner Earth and neutrino detection in water-based Cerenkov…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Hettlage , Karl Mannheim

Cherenkov telescopes have the capability of detecting high energy tau neutrinos in the energy range of 1--1000 PeV by searching for very inclined showers. If a tau lepton, produced by a tau neutrino, escapes from the Earth or a mountain, it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-03 D. Gora , E. Bernardini , A. Kappes

The effects of lunar surface roughness, on both small and large scales, on Askaryan radio pulses generated by particle cascades beneath the lunar surface has never been fully estimated. Surface roughness affects the chances of a pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-26 C. W. James

We study the constraints on neutrino masses that could be derived from the observation of a Galactic supernova neutrino signal with present and future neutrino detectors. Our analysis is based on a recently proposed method that uses the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Enrico Nardi , Jorge I. Zuluaga

Cosmic-ray accelerators capable of reaching ultra-high energies are expected to also produce very-high energy neutrinos via hadronic interactions within the source or its surrounding environment. Many of the candidate astrophysical source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-07 Tonia M. Venters , Mary Hall Reno , John F. Krizmanic

Ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos are unique cosmic messengers that can traverse cosmological distances unattenuated, offering direct insight into the most energetic processes in the universe. Radio detection promises significant advantages…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Baobiao Yue , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Julian Rautenberg

The IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory is a Cherenkov detector instrumented in a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole. IceCube's primary scientific goal is the detection of TeV neutrino emissions from astrophysical sources. At the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-01 Shiqi Yu , Jessie Micallef

Radio-based detection of high-energy particles is growing in maturity. In this chapter, we focus on the detection of neutrinos with energies in excess of 10 PeV that interact in the thick, radio-transparent ice found in the polar regions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Steven Barwick , Christian Glaser

Attempts have been made to parameterise the thermoacoustic emission of particle cascades induced by EeV neutrinos interacting in the sea. Understanding the characteristic radiation from such an event allows us to predict the pressure pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-08 J. Perkin

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole detects Cherenkov light emitted by charged secondary particles created by primary neutrino interactions. Double pulse waveforms can arise from charged current interactions of astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Wei Tian , Fuyudi Zhang , Donglian Xu

The detection of very-high-energy (VHE) neutrinos ($E_\nu \gtrsim 10$ PeV) is a challenge that future generations of experiments are being designed and constructed to address. One promising method relies on using the Earth as a neutrino…

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