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ANTARES is a neutrino telescope under the Mediterranean Sea, in a site 40 km off the French coast at a depth of 2475 m. It is an array of 12 lines equipped with 884 photomultipliers. The detection mechanism relies on the observation of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Spurio

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

Usually the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, used for the ground-based gamma-ray astronomy in the very high energy range 50 GeV - 50 TeV, perform air shower observations till the zenith angle of ~60 deg. Beyond that limit the…

The SHALON Cherenkov telescope has recorded over 2x10^6 extensive air showers during the past 17 years. The analysis of the signal at different zenith angles (\theta) has included observations from the sub-horizontal direction \theta=97^o.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-27 V. G. Sinitsyna , M. Masip , S. I. Nikolsky , V. Y. Sinitsyna

Very-high-energy and ultra-high-energy neutrinos are messengers of energetic sources in the universe. Sub-orbital and satellite-based neutrino telescopes employ detectors of the atmospheric Cherenkov emission from extensive air showers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-29 Diksha Garg , Mary Hall Reno

The ANITA collaboration has recently announced the supposed observation of two upward going cosmic ray showers at earth emergence angles $27^{\circ}$ and $35^{\circ}$ with reconstructed energy $\sim$0.6~EeV. Upward air showers (UAS) are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-04 Austin Cummings , Roberto Aloisio , Mario Bertaina , Francesca Bisconti , Francesco Fenu , Francesco Salamida

Amplified Tau-airshower at horizons may well open a novel powerful windows, at PeV-EeV energy, to Neutrino Astronomy. Neutrino induced air-showering astronomy rise because of neutrino masses, their mixing and the consequent replenishment of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Fargion

A method to search for neutrino induced showers from gamma-ray bursts in the ANTARES detector is presented. ANTARES consists of a three-dimensional array of photosensitive devices that measure Cherenkov light induced by charged particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Eleonora Presani

Neutrino telescopes can observe neutrino interactions starting at GeV energies by sampling a small fraction of the Cherenkov radiation produced by charged secondary particles. These experiments instrument volumes massive enough to collect…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-10 Teppei Katori , Juan Pablo Yanez , Tianlu Yuan

Modern Terrestrial Cerenkov Telescopes and Array Scintillators facing the Horizons may soon reveal far Cosmic Rays or nearer PeVs-EeVs Neutrino Showers Astronomy. Indeed UHE neutrino interactions in air, leading to Horizontal Showers, may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. Fargion

The observation of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources would substantially improve our knowledge and understanding of the non-thermal processes in these sources, and would in particular pinpoint the accelerators of cosmic rays.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Carr , D. Dornic , F. Jouvenot , U. F. Katz , S. Kuch , G. Maurin , R. Shanidze

We investigate the possibility of detection of the VHE gamma-ray counterparts to the neutrino astrophysical sources within the Neutrino Target of Opportunity (NToO) program of CTA using the populations simulated by the FIRESONG software to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-12 O. Sergijenko , A. Brown , D. Fiorillo , A. Rosales de Leon , K. Satalecka , C. F. Tung , R. Reimann , T. Glauch , I. Taboada

Efforts to detect ultrahigh energy neutrinos are driven by several objectives: What is the origin of astrophysical neutrinos detected with IceCube? What are the sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays? Do the ANITA detected events point to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 A. Nepomuk Otte , Anthony M. Brown , Abraham D. Falcone , Mosè Mariotti , Ignacio Taboada

We present the results of a search for high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos with the Baikal underwater Cherenkov detector NT200, based on data taken in 1998 - 2002. Upper limits on the diffuse fluxes of $\nu_e+\nu_{\mu}+\nu_{\tau}$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Aynutdinov

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

Astrophysical neutrinos can be produced in proton interactions of charged cosmic rays with ambient photon or baryonic fields. Cosmic rays are observed in balloon, satellite and air shower experiments every day, from below 1e9 eV up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Julia K. Becker

High Energy Cosmic Rays (C.R.) versus Neutrino and Neutralino induced Air-Shower maybe tested at Horizons by their muons, gamma and Cerenkov blazing signals. Inclined and Horizontal C.R. Showers (70-90 zenith angle) produce secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Fargion

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory de- signed to detect photons in the 20 GeV to 300 TeV energy range. With a sensitivity improvement of up to one order of magnitude on the entire energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Roberta Zanin , Jamie Holder

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

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays in the range 10^15 eV to 6*10^19 eV has been studied using the air Cherenkov light detectors of the Yakutsk array. The total flux of photons produced by relativistic electrons (including positrons as well,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 A. A. Ivanov , S. P. Knurenko , I. Ye. Sleptsov