Impacto
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Aranda, V. M. and Arqueros Martínez, Fernando and García Pinto, Diego and Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés and Rosado, J. and Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón (2015) Improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory. Physical Review D, 91 (9). ISSN 1550-7998
Preview |
PDF
566kB |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.092008
Abstract
Neutrinos in the cosmic ray flux with energies near 1 EeV and above are detectable with the Surface Detector array (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We report here on searches through Auger data from 1 January 2004 until 20 June 2013. No neutrino candidates were found, yielding a limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos that challenges the Waxman-Bahcall bound predictions. Neutrino identification is attempted using the broad time structure of the signals expected in the SD stations, and is efficiently done for neutrinos of all flavors interacting in the atmosphere at large zenith angles, as well as for "Earth-skimming" neutrino interactions in the case of tau neutrinos. In this paper the searches for downward-going neutrinos in the zenith angle bins 60 degrees-75 degrees and 75 degrees-90 degrees as well as for upward-going neutrinos, are combined to give a single limit. The 90% C.L. single-flavor limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos with an E-2 spectrum in the energy range 1.0 x 10(17) eV-2.5 x 10(19) eV is E(nu)(2)dN(nu)/dE(nu) < 6.4 x 10(-9) GeV cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1).
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Additional Information: | © 2015 American Physical Society. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | High energy neutrinos; Cosmic-ray cascades; Fluorescence; Profile; Array; Model; Simulation. |
Subjects: | Sciences > Physics > Nuclear physics |
ID Code: | 31178 |
Deposited On: | 03 Jul 2015 15:30 |
Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2018 14:57 |
Origin of downloads
Repository Staff Only: item control page