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We describe a method of observation for PeV--EeV tau neutrinos using Cherenkov light from the air showers of decayed taus produced by tau neutrino interactions in the Earth. Aiming for the realization of neutrino astronomy utilizing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Yoichi Asaoka , Makoto Sasaki

We show that a kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, though optimized for detecting neutrinos of TeV to PeV energy, can reveal the science associated with the enigmatic super-EeV radiation in the Universe. Speculations regarding its origin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. Alvarez-Muniz , F. Halzen

Cosmic neutrinos above a PeV are produced either within astrophysical sources or when ultra-high energy cosmic rays interact in transit through the cosmic background radiation. Detection of these neutrinos will be essential for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Mary Hall Reno , Tonia M. Venters , John F. Krizmanic , Luis A. Anchordoqui , Claire Guepin , Angela V. Olinto

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

The KM3NeT Collaboration is constructing two deep-sea Cherenkov detectors in the Mediterranean Sea. The ARCA detector aims at TeV-PeV neutrino astronomy, while the ORCA detector is optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillation studies at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-15 A. Sinopoulou , R. Coniglione , R. Muller , E. Tzamariudaki

We summarize recent results of the observations of high (1 TeV-100 PeV) and ultrahigh ($\geq 100$ PeV) energy neutrinos, including the detection of a diffuse cosmic high-energy neutrino background, the identification of the first neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Ke Fang , Kohta Murase

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

A new air-showering physics may rise in next years at horizon, offering at different angles and altitudes a fine tuned filtered Cosmic Rays astrophysics and an upward Neutrino induced air-showering astronomy. Most of this opportunity arises…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 D. Fargion

High-energy (TeV-PeV) cosmic neutrinos are expected to be produced in extremely energetic astrophysical sources such as active galactic nuclei. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has recently detected a diffuse astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Donglian Xu

The production of acoustic signals from the interactions of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic ray neutrinos in water and ice has been studied. A new computationally fast and efficient method of deriving the signal is presented. This method…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-22 S. Bevan , A. Brown , S. Danaher , J. Perkin , C. Rhodes , T. Sloan , L. Thompson , O. Veledar , D. Waters

Neutrino telescopes provide a unique observational gateway to the high-energy universe, enabling the study of cosmic accelerators and extreme environments that remain inaccessible to the other high-energy messengers. Although they share…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Aya Ishihara

The main challenge in detecting ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos is discriminating a neutrino-induced shower in the background of showers initiated by ultra-high energy nuclei. The resulting shower development from neutrinos exhibits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-04 Abha R. Khakurdikar , Washington R. Carvalho. , Jörg R. Hörandel

Already more than 30 years ago the acoustic particle detection method has been considered to be one possibility to measure signals from ultra-high energetic neutrinos. The present status and problems of corresponding model predictions are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Rolf Nahnhauer

The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope is a water Cherenkov detector composed of an array of approximately 900 photomultiplier tubes in 12 vertical strings, spread over an area of about 0.1 km^2 with an instrumented height of about 350 metres.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Francesco Simeone

With the arrival of km**3 volume scale neutrino detectors the chances to detect the first astronomical sources of TeV neutrinos will be dramatically increased. While the theoretical estimates of the neutrino fluxes contain large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-28 Francesco Vissani , Felix Aharonian , Narek Sahakyan

We present a Monte Carlo study of an underwater neutrino telescope based on the detection of acoustic signals generated by neutrino induced cascades. This provides a promising approach to instrument large detector volumes needed to detect…

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

Weakly interacting neutrinos are ideal astronomical messengers because they travel through space without deflection by magnetic fields and, essentially, without absorption. Their weak interaction also makes them notoriously difficult to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-01 Markus Ahlers , Francis Halzen

This Letter of Intent (LoI) describes the outline and plan for the Neutrino Telescope Array (NTA) project. High-energy neutrinos provide unique and indisputable evidence for hadronic acceleration. Recently, IceCube has reported astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Makoto Sasaki , George Wei-Shu Hou

The detection of very-high-energy (VHE) neutrinos ($E_\nu \gtrsim 10$ PeV) is a challenge that future generations of experiments are being designed and constructed to address. One promising method relies on using the Earth as a neutrino…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Claire Guépin , Frédéric Sarazin , John Krizmanic , Jacqueline Loerincs , Angela Olinto , Ashley Piccone