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We explore the sensitivity of a neutrino detector employing strongly directional high gain radio antennae to detect the conversion of neutrinos above $10^{16}$ eV in a mountain or the earth crust. The directionality of the antennae will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-29 O. Brusova , L. Anchordoqui , T. Huege , K. Martens

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

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

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

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Baobiao Yue , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Julian Rautenberg

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

The possible connection between high energy neutrinos in the energy region above 100 TeV and ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies above $10^{19}$ eV motivates multi-messenger observation approaches involving neutrinos and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Shigeru Yoshida

Detecting ultrahigh-energy neutrinos can take two complementary approaches with different trade-offs. 1)~Wide and shallow: aim for the largest effective volume, and to be cost-effective, go for wide field-of-view but at the cost of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Kumiko Kotera , Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Rafael Alves Batista , Derek Fox , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Kohta Murase , Stephanie Wissel , Andrew Zeolla

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

Both particle physics experiments and cosmological observations have been used to explore neutrino properties. Cosmological researches of neutrinos often rely on the early-universe cosmic microwave background observations or other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Yue Shao , Guo-Hong Du , Tian-Nuo Li , Xin Zhang

Several experimental techniques are currently under development, to measure the expected tiny fluxes of highest energy neutrinos above 10**18 eV. Projects in different stages of realisation are discussed here, which are based on optical and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rolf Nahnhauer

With the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux in the 0.1 PeV to PeV range from beyond the Earth's atmosphere with the IceCube detector, neutrino astronomy has achieved a major breakthrough in the exploration of the high-energy universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Kappes

Upcoming neutrino telescopes may discover ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic neutrinos, with energies beyond 100 PeV, in the next 10-20 years. Finding their sources would identify guaranteed sites of interaction of UHE cosmic rays, whose origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-14 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Mauricio Bustamante , Victor B. Valera

Neutrino astronomy was initiated primarily to search for TeV to PeV neutrinos from Active Galactic Nuclei, and the optical Cherenkov technique is well suited for this energy range. Interest has grown recently in detecting EeV neutrinos,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Justin Vandenbroucke

Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos (UHEN), with energy above 0.l EeV (10**18 eV) is one of the most exciting challenges of high energy astrophysics and particle physics. In this article we show that the Auger Observatories, built to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-28 Antoine Letessier-Selvon

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

Kilometer-scale neutrino detectors such as IceCube are discovery instruments covering nuclear and particle physics, cosmology and astronomy. Examples of their multidisciplinary missions include the search for the particle nature of dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Halzen

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 search for the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) using high-energy neutrinos represents a frontier in high-energy astrophysics. However, a critical bottleneck remains: the ability to rapidly survey the sizable sky areas…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Fabian Schüssler , Sofia Bisero , Bernardo Cornejo , Filippo D'Ammando , Richard I. Anderson , Ilja Jaroschewski , Silvia Piranomonte , Fatemeh Zahra Majid

Ultra-high energy neutrinos hold promise as cosmic messengers to advance the understanding of extreme astrophysical objects and environments as well as possible probes for discovering new physics. This proceeding describes the motivation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-10 James Madsen

It is shown that high energy neutrino beams from very distant sources can beutilized to learn about some properties fof neutrinos such as lifetimes and mass hierarchy etc. Furthermore, even mixing elements such as U-e3 and the CPV phase can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sandip Pakvasa
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