On radio detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos in Antarctic ice
Interactions of ultrahigh energy neutrinos of cosmological origin in large volumes of dense, radio-transparent media can be detected via coherent Cherenkov emission from accompanying electromagnetic showers. Antarctic ice meets the requirements for an efficient detection medium for a radio frequency...
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ftcern:oai:cds.cern.ch:285136 2023-05-15T13:51:06+02:00 On radio detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos in Antarctic ice Frichter, G M Ralston, J P McKay, D W 1996 http://cds.cern.ch/record/285136 eng eng http://cds.cern.ch/record/285136 astro-ph/9507078 KITCS-95-1-3 oai:cds.cern.ch:285136 Astrophysics and Astronomy 1996 ftcern 2018-07-28T02:41:45Z Interactions of ultrahigh energy neutrinos of cosmological origin in large volumes of dense, radio-transparent media can be detected via coherent Cherenkov emission from accompanying electromagnetic showers. Antarctic ice meets the requirements for an efficient detection medium for a radio frequency neutrino telescope. We carefully estimate the sensitivity of realistic antennas embedded deep in the ice to 100 MHz - 1 GHz signals generated by predicted neutrino fluxes from active galactic nuclei. Our main conclusion is that a {\it single radio receiver} can probe a \sim 1 {\rm km}^3 volume for events with primary energy near 2 PeV and that the total number of events registered would be roughly 200 to 400 {\rm year}^{-1} in our most conservative estimate. An array of such receivers would increase sensitivity dramatically. A radio neutrino telescope could directly observe and test our understanding of the most powerful particle accelerators in the universe, simultaneously testing the standard theory of particle physics at unprecedented energies. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctic CERN Document Server (CDS) Antarctic |
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Interactions of ultrahigh energy neutrinos of cosmological origin in large volumes of dense, radio-transparent media can be detected via coherent Cherenkov emission from accompanying electromagnetic showers. Antarctic ice meets the requirements for an efficient detection medium for a radio frequency neutrino telescope. We carefully estimate the sensitivity of realistic antennas embedded deep in the ice to 100 MHz - 1 GHz signals generated by predicted neutrino fluxes from active galactic nuclei. Our main conclusion is that a {\it single radio receiver} can probe a \sim 1 {\rm km}^3 volume for events with primary energy near 2 PeV and that the total number of events registered would be roughly 200 to 400 {\rm year}^{-1} in our most conservative estimate. An array of such receivers would increase sensitivity dramatically. A radio neutrino telescope could directly observe and test our understanding of the most powerful particle accelerators in the universe, simultaneously testing the standard theory of particle physics at unprecedented energies. |
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Frichter, G M Ralston, J P McKay, D W |
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On radio detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos in Antarctic ice |
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On radio detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos in Antarctic ice |
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On radio detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos in Antarctic ice |
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On radio detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos in Antarctic ice |
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