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The next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescope, like CTA, is going to strongly improve the detection capability of high-energy cosmic rays. In our paper we discuss the possibility to use such apparatus to detect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gennaro Miele , Ofelia Pisanti

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

The last five years have shown us that ultra-high-energy (UHE; $>$100 TeV) gamma-ray sources are ubiquitous, but the nature of these sources remain highly uncertain. UHE gamma rays can be produced via either leptonic (Inverse compton) or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , A. Andrés , E. Anita-Rangel , M. Araya , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , R. Babu , P. Bangale , E. Belmont-Moreno , A. Bernal , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , E. De la Fuente , C. de León , P. Desiati , N. Di Lalla , R. Diaz Hernandez , M. A. DuVernois , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , K. Engel , T. Ergin , C. Espinoza , K. Fang , N. Fraija , S. Fraija , A. Galván-Gámez , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , N. Ghosh , M. M. González , J. A. González , J. A. Goodman , S. Groetsch , D. Guevel , J. Gyeong , J. P. Harding , S. Hernández-Cadena , I. Herzog , J. Hinton , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , S. Kaufmann , A. Lara , K. Leavitt , J. Lee , T. Lewis , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , K. Malone , M. Martin , O. Martinez , J. Martínez-Castro , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , P. E. Mirón-Enriquez , J. A. Morales-Soto , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , M. Najafi , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , N. Omodei , M. Osorio-Archila , E. Ponce , Y. Pérez Araujo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , C. D. Rho , A. Rodriguez Parra , D. Rosa-González , M. Roth , H. Salazar , D. Salazar-Gallegos , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , J. Serna-Franco , M. Shin , A. J. Smith , Y. Son , R. W. Springer , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , E. Varela , L. Villaseñor , X. Wang , Z. Wang , I. J. Watson , H. Wu , S. Yu , S. Yun-Cárcamo , X. Zhang , H. Zhou

Cosmogenic neutrinos are expected from ultrahigh energy cosmic rays undergoing the GZK process and anticipated to be observed by detecting air showers from the decays of tau leptons. We use CORSIKA simulated shower structure to calculate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Kwang-Chang Lai , Guey-Lin Lin , Tsung-Che Liu , Jiwoo Nam , Chi-Chin Chen

We show that the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), with significant but feasible new efforts, has the potential to deliver world-leading results in solar neutrinos. With a 100 kton-year exposure, DUNE could detect $\gtrsim 10^5$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-27 Francesco Capozzi , Shirley Weishi Li , Guanying Zhu , John F. Beacom

Neutrinos interact with matter only through weak processes with low cross-section. To detect cosmic neutrinos most efforts have relied on the detection of visible Vavilov-Cerenkov light in detectors embedded in the target volumes. To access…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oscar Stål , Jan Bergman , Bo Thidé , Lennart Åhlén , Gunnar Ingelman

An underwater acoustic sensor array spanning ~1500 km^3 is used to search for cosmic-ray neutrinos of ultra-high energies (UHE, E > 10^18 eV). Approximately 328 million triggers accumulated over an integrated 130 days of data taking are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-21 Naoko Kurahashi , Justin Vandenbroucke , Giorgio Gratta

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

The Pierre Auger Observatory stands as the largest detector for ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays. The Observatory is also sensitive to UHE photons and neutrinos that can be produced along with UHE cosmic rays or in top-down processes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 Nicolas M. Gonzalez

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a proposed multi-messenger observatory of Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) particles of cosmic origin. Its main goal is to find the long-sought origin of UHE cosmic rays by detecting large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 GRAND Collaboration , Jaime Álvarez-Muniz , Rafael Alves Batista , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Teresa Bister , Martina Bohacova , Mauricio Bustamante , Washington Carvalho , Yiren Chen , LingMei Cheng , Simon Chiche , Jean-Marc Colley , Pablo Correa , Nicoleta Cucu Laurenciu , Zigao Dai , Rogerio M. de Almeida , Beatriz de Errico , João R. T. de Mello Neto , Krijn D. de Vries , Valentin Decoene , Peter B. Denton , Bohao Duan , Kaikai Duan , Ralph Engel , William Erba , Yizhong Fan , Arsène Ferrière , Juan Pablo Góngora , QuanBu Gou , Junhua Gu , Marion Guelfand , Gang Guo , Jianhua Guo , Yiqing Guo , Claire Guépin , Lukas Gülzow , Andreas Haungs , Matej Havelka , Haoning He , Eric Hivon , Hongbo Hu , Guoyuan Huang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yan Huang , Tim Huege , Wen Jiang , Sei Kato , Ramesh Koirala , Kumiko Kotera , Jelena Köhler , Bruno L. Lago , Zhisen Lai , Jolan Lavoisier , François Legrand , Antonios Leisos , Rui Li , Xingyu Li , Cheng Liu , Ruoyu Liu , Wei Liu , Pengxiong Ma , Oscar Macias , Frédéric Magnard , Alexandre Marcowith , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Zach Mason , Thomas McKinley , Paul Minodier , Miguel Mostafá , Kohta Murase , Valentin Niess , Stavros Nonis , Shoichi Ogio , Foteini Oikonomou , Hongwei Pan , Konstantinos Papageorgiou , Tanguy Pierog , Lech Wiktor Piotrowski , Simon Prunet , Clément Prévotat , Xiangli Qian , Markus Roth , Takashi Sako , Sarvesh Shinde , Dániel Szálas-Motesiczky , Szymon Sławiński , Kaoru Takahashi , Xishui Tian , Charles Timmermans , Petr Tobiska , Apostolos Tsirigotis , Matías Tueros , George Vittakis , Vincent Voisin , Hanrui Wang , Jiale Wang , Shen Wang , Xiangyu Wang , Xu Wang , Daming Wei , Feng Wei , Emily Weissling , Juan Wu , Xiangping Wu , Xuefeng Wu , Xin Xu , Xing Xu , Fufu Yang , Lili Yang , Xuan Yang , Qiang Yuan , Philippe Zarka , Houdun Zeng , Chao Zhang , Jianli Zhang , Kewen Zhang , Pengfei Zhang , Qingchi Zhang , Songbo Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hao Zhou

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

The possibilities of detecting high energy neutrinos through inclined showers produced in the atmosphere are addressed with an emphasis on the detection of air showers by arrays of particle detectors. Rates of inclined showers produced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Enrique Zas

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. First results are presented of an analysis…

We present a concept for on-orbit radio detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) that has the potential to provide collection rates of ~100 events per year for energies above 10^20 eV. The synoptic wideband orbiting radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-07 Andrew Romero-Wolf , Peter Gorham , Kurt Liewer , Jeffrey Booth , Riley Duren

The expected Ultra High Energy Neutrino signals from PeVs up to GZK energies may arise as Upward and Horizontal Tau air Showers, UPTAUS and HORTAUS, flashing toward mountain peaks, airplanes, balloons and satellites. The Areas, Volumes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-08 D. Fargion

Neutrinos are a very promising messenger at tens of EeV and above. They can be produced by several channels, namely as by products of hadronic interactions at the sources, as the main products of the decay of super massive particles and, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. D. Supanitsky , G. Medina-Tanco , K. Asano , D. Cline , T. Ebisuzaki , S. Inoue , P. Lipari , A. Santangelo , K. Shinozaki , G. Sigl , Y. Takahashi , M. Teshima

We present results demonstrating the time resolution and $\mu$/e separation capabilities with a new concept of an EAS detector capable for measurements of cosmic rays arriving with large zenith angles. This kind of detector has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Iori , H. Denizli , A. Yilmaz , F. Ferrarotto , J. Russ

Newborn, strongly magnetized neutron stars (so-called magnetars) surrounded by their stellar or merger ejecta are expected to be sources of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos via decay of mesons produced in hadronic interactions of protons which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Jose Alonso Carpio , Kohta Murase , Mary Hall Reno , Ina Sarcevic , Anna Stasto

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has discovered a diffuse astrophysical flux up to 10 PeV and is now planning a large extension with IceCube-Gen2, including an optical array and a large radio array at shallow depth [1]. Neutrino searches…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-03 Abby Bishop , Lu Lu , Albrecht Karle , Ben Hokanson-Fasig