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The lunar Cherenkov technique is a method to use radio-telescopes to detect ultra-high energy cosmic rays (CR) and neutrinos ($\nu$). By observing the short-duration ($\sim$few nanosecond) pulses of coherent Cherenkov radiation emitted from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-27 C. W. James , R. D. Ekers , C. J. Philips , R. J. Protheroe , P. Roberts , R. A. Robinson , J. Alvarez-Muñiz , J. D. Bray

The detection of ultra-high energy (UHE, >10 PeV) neutrinos via detectors designed to utilize the Askaryan effect has been a long-time goal of the astroparticle physics community. The Askaryan effect describes radio-frequency (RF) radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Jordan C. Hanson , Raymond Hartig

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

Cosmic-rays with energies exceeding 10^{19} eV are referred to as Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs). The sources of these particles and their acceleration mechanism are unknown, and for many years have been the issue of much debate.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 E. Waxman

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

We explore the feasibility of using the Moon as a detector of extremely high energy (>10^19 eV) cosmic rays and neutrinos. The idea is to use the existing radiotelescopes on Earth to look for short pulses of Cherenkov radiation in the GHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , E. Zas

The detection of ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrino sources would contribute significantly to solving the decades-old mystery of the origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays. We investigate the ability of a future UHE neutrino detector to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-09 Ke Fang , Kumiko Kotera , M. Coleman Miller , Kohta Murase , Foteini Oikonomou

A promising method for the detection of UHE neutrinos is the Lunar Cherenkov technique, which utilises Earth-based radio telescopes to detect the coherent Cherenkov radiation emitted when a UHE neutrino interacts in the outer layers of the…

The origin and nature of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remain an open question in astroparticle physics. Motivated by the need for an unprecedented aperture for further advancements, the Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel…

Cosmic particles hitting Earth's moon produce radio emission via the Askaryan effect. If the resulting radio ns-pulse can be detected by radio telescopes, this technique potentially increases the available collective area for ZeV scale…

One of the most tantalizing questions in astronomy and astrophysics, namely the origin and the evolution of the cosmic accelerators that produce the highest energy cosmic rays (UHECR), may be best addressed through the observation of ultra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-29 Pisin Chen , K. D. Hoffman

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 present simulation results for the detection of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic ray (CR) and neutrino interactions in the Moon by radio-telescopes. We simulate the expected radio signal at Earth from such interactions, expanding on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 C. W. James , R. J. Protheroe

Various experiments have been conducted to search for the radio emission from ultra-high-energy particles interacting in the lunar regolith. Although they have not yielded any detections, they have been successful in establishing upper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Justin Bray

The low flux of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) at the highest energies provides a challenge to answer the long standing question about their origin and nature. Even lower fluxes of neutrinos with energies above $10^{22}$ eV are…

The nature of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies >10^20 eV remains a mystery. They are likely to be of extragalactic origin, but should be absorbed within ~50 Mpc through interactions with the cosmic microwave background. As…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Falcke , W. D. Apel , A. F. Badea