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The detection of the radio emission following a neutrino interaction in ice is a promising technique to obtain significant sensitivities to neutrinos with energies above PeV. The detectable radio emission stems from particle showers in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Daniel García-Fernández , Christian Glaser , Anna Nelles

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an in-ice ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino experiment at the South Pole. ARA aims to detect the radio emissions from neutrino-induced particle showers using in-ice clusters of antennas buried ${\sim}200$ m…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-09 Marco Stein Muzio

We estimate the rate of observable Horizontal and Upward Tau Air-Showers (HORTAUs, UPTAUS) considering both the Earth opacity and the finite size of the terrestrial atmosphere. We calculate the effective target volumes and masses for Tau…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Fargion , P. G. De Sanctis Lucentini , M. De Santis. M. Grossi

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

The present study investigates the feasibility of employing Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) technology for the detection of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino-tau particles. By observing the Cherenkov light produced by charged particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 Tariq Bitam , Bouzid Boussaha , Mossaab Messamah

Detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos will be useful for unraveling the dynamics of the most violent sources in the cosmos and for revealing the neutrino cross-section at extreme energy. Above ~ 10^20 eV, neutrinos may well be the only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Andrei Irimia , Thomas J. Weiler

Neutrino astrophysics offers new perspectives on the Universe investigation: high energy neutrinos, produced by the most energetic phenomena in our Galaxy and in the Universe, carry complementary (if not exclusive) information about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-11 T. Chiarusi , M. Spurio

We consider the upscattering of atmospheric neutrinos in the interior of the Earth producing heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) which subsequently decay inside large volume detectors (e.g. Super-Kamiokande or DUNE). We compute the flux of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 R. Andrew Gustafson , Ryan Plestid , Ian M. Shoemaker

Orbiting detectors will be able to observe showers initiated by neutrinos penetrating the Earth and interacting close to their exit point. There is a correlation between the impact parameter of the incident neutrino and its energy. We study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Domokos , S. Kovesi-Domokos

Experiments designed to detect ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos using radio techniques are also capable of detecting the radio signals from cosmic-ray (CR) induced air showers. These CR signals are important both as a background and as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Shoukat Ali , Dave Z. Besson

Trinity is a proposed air-shower imaging system optimized for the detection of earth-skimming ultrahigh energy tau neutrinos with energies between $10^7$ GeV and $10^{10}$ GeV. Trinity will pursue three major scientific objectives. 1) It…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 A. Nepomuk Otte , Anthony M. Brown , Michele Doro , Abe Falcone , Jamie Holder , Eleanor Judd , Philip Kaaret , Mosè Mariotti , Kohta Murase , Ignacio Taboada

The Surface Detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory can detect neutrinos with energy between 10^17 eV and 10^20 eV from point-like sources across the sky south of +55 deg and north of -65 deg declinations. A search has been performed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-12 Pierre Auger Collaboration

High energy neutrinos play a very important role for the understanding of the origin and propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR). They can be produced as a consequence of the hadronic interactions suffered by the cosmic rays in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. D. Supanitsky , G. Medina-Tanco

The ANTARES Collaboration proposes to construct a large area water Cherenkov detector in the deep Mediterranean Sea, optimised for the detection of muons from high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. This paper presents the scientific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 ANTARES Collaboration

Despite 100 years of effort, we still know very little about the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The observation of neutrinos produced when cosmic-ray protons with energies above $4\times 10^{19}$ eV interact with the cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Spencer R. Klein

Interactions of ultrahigh energy neutrinos of cosmological origin in large volumes of radio-transparent South Polar ice can be detected via coherent Cherenkov emission from accompanying electromagnetic showers. A pilot experiment employing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George M. Frichter , John P. Ralston , Douglas W. McKay

UHE neutrinos may transfer highest cosmic-rays energies overcoming $2.75K^\circ$ BBR and radio-waves opacities (the GZK cut off) from most distant AGN sources at the age of the Universe. These UHE $\nu$ might scatter onto those (light and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniele Fargion , Barbara Mele

We suggest an experimental measurement that could detect the appearance of the tau neutrinos in muon to tau neutrino oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos by measuring the energy spectra of neutrino induced showers. Tau neutrinos deposit a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Todor Stanev

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

The discovery of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos has the potential to offer unique insight into fundamental questions. To capitalize on the upcoming opportunity provided by new UHE neutrino telescopes, we provide state-of-the-art…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-21 Victor B. Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Christian Glaser