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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

This paper investigates the potential to detect tau neutrinos in the energy range of 1-1000 PeV searching for very inclined showers with imaging Cherenkov telescopes. A neutrino induced tau lepton escaping from the Earth may decay and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-23 Dariusz Gora , Elisa Bernardini

This paper investigates the potential to detect tau neutrinos in the energy range of 1-1000 PeV searching for very inclined showers with imaging Cherenkov telescopes. A neutrino induced tau lepton escaping from the Earth may decay and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-13 Dariusz Gora , Elisa Bernardini

We perform a new, detailed calculation of the flux and energy spectrum of Earth-emerging $\tau$-leptons generated from the interactions of tau neutrinos and antineutrinos in the Earth. A layered model of the Earth is used to describe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-15 Mary Hall Reno , John F. Krizmanic , Tonia M. Venters

Earth-skimming neutrinos are those which travel through the Earth's crust at a shallow angle. For Ultra-High-Energy (E > 1 PeV; UHE) earth-skimming tau neutrinos, there is a high-probability that the tau lepton created by a neutrino-Earth…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Anthony M. Brown , Mahdi Bagheri , Michele Doro , Eliza Gazda , Dave Kieda , Chaoxian Lin , Yasar Onel , Nepomuk Otte , Ignacio Taboada , Andrew Wang

We study prospects for the observations of high-energy cosmic tau neutrinos (E \geq 10^6 GeV) originating from proton acceleration in the cores of active galactic nuclei. We consider the possibility that vacuum flavor neutrino oscillations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-03 H. Athar , G. Parente , E. Zas

The detection of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube in the TeV-PeV energy range motivates the development of instruments for observing these particles at higher energies. Moreover, the detection of very-high-energy (VHE) neutrinos could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Oscar Fernando Romero Matamala

Astrophysical sources of ultrahigh energy neutrinos yield tau neutrino fluxes due to neutrino oscillations. At neutrino energies in the EeV range, radio Cherenkov detection methods show promise for detecting these fluxes. We quantify the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Iyer Dutta , I. Mocioiu , M. H. Reno , I. Sarcevic

The in-ice or in-water Cherenkov neutrino telescope such as IceCube has already proved its power in measuring the Glashow resonance by searching for the bump around $E^{}_{\rm \nu} = 6.3~{\rm PeV}$ arising from the $W$-boson production. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-25 Guo-yuan Huang

Cosmic neutrinos above a PeV are produced either within astrophysical sources or when ultra-high energy cosmic rays interact in transit through the cosmic background radiation. Detection of these neutrinos will be essential for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Mary Hall Reno , Tonia M. Venters , John F. Krizmanic , Luis A. Anchordoqui , Claire Guepin , Angela V. Olinto

Kilometer-scale deep under-ice or -water Cherenkov neutrino detectors may detect muon and electron neutrinos from astrophysical sources at energies of a TeV and above. Tau neutrinos are also expected from these sources due to neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. DeYoung , S. Razzaque , D. F. Cowen

The detection of high-energy tau neutrinos remains a critical challenge in neutrino astronomy, limited by inadequate angular resolution and sensitivity in current detectors like IceCube and KM3NeT. We present a modular water Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Monong Yu , Yiren Chen , Lei Wang , Shiping Zhao , Xingyu Li , Qiang Yuan , Yi Zhang , Guang Yang

We highlight the capacity of current and forthcoming air shower arrays using water-Cherenkov stations to detect neutrino events spanning energies from $10\,$GeV to $100\,$TeV. This detection approach leverages individual stations equipped…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. Conceição , P. J. Costa , B. S. González , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé

We describe a method of observation for PeV--EeV tau neutrinos using Cherenkov light from the air showers of decayed taus produced by tau neutrino interactions in the Earth. Aiming for the realization of neutrino astronomy utilizing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Yoichi Asaoka , Makoto Sasaki

We have investigated the possibility of $\nu_\tau$ detection using Cosmic Ray Tau Neutrino Telescope (CRTNT) based on air shower fluorescence/Cerenkov light detector techniques. This approach requires an interaction of a $\nu_\tau$ with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Cao , M. A. Huang , P. Sokolsky , Y. Hu

The detection of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube and the potential to constrain source models of ultra-high energy cosmic rays provide the motivation to develop instruments for the observation of neutrinos above $10^7$ GeV. Among the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 A. Nepomuk Otte , Eliza Gazda , Eleanor Judd , John F. Krizmanic , Evgeny Kutzenzov , Oscar Romero Matamala , Patrick J. Reardon , Lawrence Wiencke

Tau neutrinos with energies in the PeV-EeV range produce up-going extensive air showers (UEAS) if they interact underground close enough to the surface of the Earth. This work studies detectability of the UEAS with a system of fluorescence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 A. Neronov

Multi-messenger observations of transient astrophysical sources have the potential to characterize the highest energy accelerators and the most extreme environments in the Universe. Detection of neutrinos, in particular tau neutrinos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 Mary Hall Reno , Tonia M. Venters , John F. Krizmanic

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has revealed the existence of sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. However, identification of the sources is challenging because astrophysical neutrinos are difficult to separate from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-09 D. Rysewyk , D. Lennarz , T. DeYoung , J. Auffenberg , M. Schaufel , T. Bretz , C. Wiebusch , M. U. Nisa

The observation of ultra-high-energy EeV-energy cosmogenic neutrinos provides a direct path to identifying the sources of the highest energy cosmic rays; searches have so far resulted in only upper limits on their flux. However, with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-29 Carlos A. Argüelles , Francis Halzen , Ali Kheirandish , Ibrahim Safa
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