High-energy Neutrino Astronomy: Science and First Results
We introduce neutrino astronomy starting from the observational fact that Nature accelerates protons and photons to energies in excess of 10^{20} and 10^{13} eV, respectively. Although the discovery of cosmic rays dates back a century, we do not know how and where they are accelerated. We review the...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0301143 2023-05-15T18:22:50+02:00 High-energy Neutrino Astronomy: Science and First Results Halzen, F. 2003 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0301143 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301143 unknown arXiv Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Astrophysics astro-ph High Energy Physics - Phenomenology hep-ph FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2003 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0301143 2022-04-01T16:40:46Z We introduce neutrino astronomy starting from the observational fact that Nature accelerates protons and photons to energies in excess of 10^{20} and 10^{13} eV, respectively. Although the discovery of cosmic rays dates back a century, we do not know how and where they are accelerated. We review the observations as well as speculations about the sources. Among these gamma ray bursts and active galaxies represent well-motivated speculations because these are also the sources of the highest energy gamma rays, with emission observed up to 20 TeV, possibly higher. We discuss why cosmic accelerators are expected to be cosmic beam dumps producing neutrino beams associated with the highest energy cosmic rays. Cosmic ray sources may produce neutrinos from MeV to EeV energy by a variety of mechanisms. The important conclusion is that, independently of the specific blueprint of the source, it takes a kilometer-scale neutrino observatory to detect the neutrino beam associated with the highest energy cosmic rays and gamma rays. The technology for commissioning such instrument has been established by the AMANDA detector at the South Pole. We review its performance and, with several thousand neutrinos collected, its first scientific results. : Latex2.09, uses crckapb.sty (included), 31 pages, 13 postscript figures placed with epsfig.sty. Talk presented at the 9th Course of Astrofundamental Physics, International School of Astrophysics D. Chalonge, Palermo, Sicily, Sept. 2002 Report South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Palermo ENVELOPE(-63.600,-63.600,-65.067,-65.067) South Pole |
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We introduce neutrino astronomy starting from the observational fact that Nature accelerates protons and photons to energies in excess of 10^{20} and 10^{13} eV, respectively. Although the discovery of cosmic rays dates back a century, we do not know how and where they are accelerated. We review the observations as well as speculations about the sources. Among these gamma ray bursts and active galaxies represent well-motivated speculations because these are also the sources of the highest energy gamma rays, with emission observed up to 20 TeV, possibly higher. We discuss why cosmic accelerators are expected to be cosmic beam dumps producing neutrino beams associated with the highest energy cosmic rays. Cosmic ray sources may produce neutrinos from MeV to EeV energy by a variety of mechanisms. The important conclusion is that, independently of the specific blueprint of the source, it takes a kilometer-scale neutrino observatory to detect the neutrino beam associated with the highest energy cosmic rays and gamma rays. The technology for commissioning such instrument has been established by the AMANDA detector at the South Pole. We review its performance and, with several thousand neutrinos collected, its first scientific results. : Latex2.09, uses crckapb.sty (included), 31 pages, 13 postscript figures placed with epsfig.sty. Talk presented at the 9th Course of Astrofundamental Physics, International School of Astrophysics D. Chalonge, Palermo, Sicily, Sept. 2002 |
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High-energy Neutrino Astronomy: Science and First Results |
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