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We show that the Auger Air Shower Array has the potential to detect neutrinos of energies in the $10^{19}~$eV range through horizontal air showers. Assuming some simple conservative trigger requirements we obtain the acceptance for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 K. S. Capelle , J. W. Cronin , G. Parente , E. Zas

The recent demonstration by the CODALEMA Collaboration of the ability of the radio-detection technique for the characterization of UHE cosmic-rays calls for the use of this powerful method for the observation of UHE neutrinos. For this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Daniel Ardouin , Didier Charrier , Pascal Lautridou , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Olivier Ravel , Xiang-Ping Wu , Meng Zhao

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a planned array of ~200 000 radio antennas deployed over ~200 000 km2 in a mountainous site. It aims primarly at detecting high-energy neutrinos via the observation of extensive air…

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

Searches for Earth-skimming neutrinos using volcanoes have not yet been achieved, but it is a promising technique for the detection of neutrinos above 1 PeV. The HAWC observatory is located in the vicinity of the highest mountain in Mexico,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-22 Hermes León Vargas

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

``Top--down'' models explain the observation of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR; $E \gsim 5 \cdot 10^{19}$ eV) through the decay of very massive, long--lived ``$X$ particles''. If superparticles with masses near a TeV exist, $X$ decays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sascha Bornhauser , Manuel Drees

Earth--skimming UHE tau neutrinos have a chance to be detected by the Fluorescence Detector (FD) of Pierre Auger Observatory if their astrophysical flux is large enough. A detailed evaluation of the expected number of events is here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 G. Miele , L. Perrone , O. Pisanti

The Earth's Shadow to Cosmic Rays offer a windows to Tau Neutrino Astronomy at the Horizon edges. Inclined and Horizontal C.R. Showers (70^o-90^o zenith angle) produce secondary (gamma,e) mostly suppressed by high column atmosphere depth.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Fargion

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

We study the prospects of detecting signals of a resonant scattering of high-energy cosmic neutrinos on electrons in the atmosphere. Such a process is possible through an s-channel exchange of a isotriplet scalar particle predicted by some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 Lars Brücher , Petteri Keränen , Jukka Maalampi

We assess the capabilities of a ground-based gamma-ray observatory to detect astrophysical neutrinos with energies in the $100\,{\rm TeV}$ to $100\,{\rm PeV}$ range. The identification of these events would be done through the measurement…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-16 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Ruben Conceição , Pedro J. Costa , Mário Pimenta , Bernardo Tomé

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

Neutrino astronomy offers the possibility to perform extra-galactic observations well beyond the photon absorption cutoff above 50 TeV. Based on observations of cosmic rays, we already know that astrophysical sources produce particles with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Saltzberg

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

The long-duration balloon platform for radio detection of energetic neutrinos, pioneered by ANITA, affords large instantaneous effective areas but has limited livetime. Conversely, tethered balloons, traditionally used for radio detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-23 Rachel Scrandis , Cosmin Deaconu

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino detector at the South Pole, designed to search for radio pulses emitted by neutrino-initiated particle showers in ice. ARA consists of an array of five autonomous stations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Marco Stein Muzio

The Pierre Auger Observatory has the capability to identify neutrino-induced extensive air showers above $10^{17}$ eV by using its large Surface Detector (SD) array. Data from the Observatory have been used to set some of the most stringent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 Srijan Sehgal

Very-high-energy neutrinos can be observed by detecting air shower signals. Detection of transient target of opportunity (ToO) neutrino sources is part of a broader multimessenger program. The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-24 J. A. Posligua , T. Heibges , H. Wistrand , C. Guépin , M. H. Reno , T. Venters