An upper limit on the electron-neutrino flux from the HiRes detector

被引：36

作者：

Abbasi, R. U. ^{[1
,2
]}

Abu-Zayyad, T. ^{[1
,2
]}

Allen, M. ^{[1
,2
]}

Amann, J. F. ^{[3
]}

Archbold, G. ^{[1
,2
]}

Belov, K. ^{[1
,2
]}

Belz, J. W. ^{[4
]}

Ben Zvi, S. Y. ^{[5
,6
]}

Bergman, D. R. ^{[7
]}

Biesiadecka, A. ^{[7
]}

Blake, S. A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Boyer, J. H. ^{[5
,6
]}

Brusova, O. A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Burt, G. W. ^{[1
,2
]}

Cannon, C. ^{[1
,2
]}

Cao, Z. ^{[1
,2
]}

Deng, W. ^{[1
,2
]}

Fedorova, Y. ^{[1
,2
]}

Findlay, J. ^{[1
,2
]}

Finley, C. B. ^{[5
,6
]}

Gray, R. C. ^{[1
,2
]}

Hanlon, W. F. ^{[1
,2
]}

Hoffman, C. M. ^{[3
]}

Holzscheiter, M. H. ^{[3
]}

Hughes, G.

Huentemeyer, P. ^{[1
,2
]}

Ivanov, D. ^{[7
]}

Jones, B. F. ^{[1
,2
]}

Jui, C. C. H. ^{[1
,2
]}

Kim, K. ^{[1
,2
]}

Kirn, M. A. ^{[4
]}

Knapp, B. C. ^{[5
,6
]}

Loh, E. C. ^{[1
,2
]}

Maestas, M. M. ^{[1
,2
]}

Manago, N. ^{[8
]}

Mannel, E. J. ^{[5
,6
]}

Marek, L. J. ^{[3
]}

Martens, K. ^{[1
,2
]}

Matthews, J. A. J.

Matthews, J. N. ^{[1
,2
]}

Moore, S. A. ^{[1
,2
]}

O'Neill, A. ^{[5
,6
]}

Painter, C. A. ^{[3
]}

Perera, L. ^{[7
]}

Reil, K. ^{[1
,2
]}

Riehle, R. ^{[1
,2
]}

Roberts, M. D. ^{[9
]}

Rodriguez, D. ^{[1
,2
]}

Sasaki, M. ^{[8
]}

Schnetzer, S. R. ^{[7
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Utah, Dept Phys, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA

[2] Univ Utah, High Energy Astrophys Inst, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA

[3] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

[4] Univ Montana, Dept Phys & Astron, Missoula, MT 59812 USA

[5] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10027 USA

[6] Columbia Univ, Nevis Labs, New York, NY 10027 USA

[7] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA

[8] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Chiba 2778582, Japan

[9] Univ New Mexico, Dept Phys & Astron, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2008年 / 684卷 / 02期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

acceleration of particles; cosmic rays; large; scale structure of universe; neutrinos;

D O I：

10.1086/590335

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Air-fluorescence detectors such as the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) detector are very sensitive to upward-going, Earth-skimming ultra-high-energy electron-neutrino-induced showers. This is due to the relatively large interaction cross sections of these high-energy neutrinos and to the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect. The LPM effect causes a significant decrease in the cross sections for bremsstrahlung and pair production, allowing charged-current electron-neutrino-induced showers occurring deep in the Earth's crust to be detectable as they exit the Earth into the atmosphere. A search for upward-going neutrino-induced showers in the HiRes-II monocular data set has yielded a null result. From an LPM calculation of the energy spectrum of charged particles as a function of primary energy and depth for electron-induced showers in rock, we calculate the shape of the resulting profile of these showers in air. We describe a full detector Monte Carlo simulation to determine the detector response to upward-going electron-neutrino-induced cascades and present an upper limit on the flux of electron neutrinos.

引用

页码：790 / 793

页数：4

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