Search for ultra-high-energy neutrinos with amanda-II

被引：79

作者：

Ackermann, M. ^{[25
]}

Adams, J. ^{[2
]}

Ahrens, J. ^{[3
]}

Andeen, K. ^{[4
]}

Auffenberg, J. ^{[5
]}

Bai, X. ^{[6
,7
]}

Baret, B. ^{[8
]}

Barwick, S. W. ^{[1
]}

Bay, R. ^{[9
]}

Beattie, K. ^{[10
]}

Becka, T. ^{[4
]}

Becker, J. K. ^{[11
]}

Becker, K. -H. ^{[5
]}

Beimforde, M. ^{[12
]}

Berghaus, P. ^{[13
]}

Berley, D. ^{[14
]}

Bernardini, E. ^{[25
]}

Bertrand, D. ^{[13
]}

Besson, D. Z. ^{[15
]}

Blaufuss, E. ^{[14
]}

Boersma, D. J. ^{[4
]}

Bohm, C. ^{[16
]}

Bolmont, J. ^{[25
]}

Boeser, S. ^{[25
]}

Botner, O. ^{[17
]}

Bouchta, A. ^{[17
]}

Braun, J. ^{[4
]}

Burgess, T. ^{[16
]}

Castermans, T. ^{[18
]}

Chirkin, D. ^{[10
]}

Christy, B. ^{[14
]}

Clem, J. ^{[6
]}

Cowen, D. F. ^{[19
,20
]}

D'Agostino, M. V. ^{[9
]}

Davour, A. ^{[17
]}

Day, C. T. ^{[10
]}

De Clercq, C. ^{[8
]}

Demiroers, L. ^{[6
,7
]}

Descamps, F. ^{[21
]}

Desiati, P. ^{[4
]}

De Vries-Uiterweerd, G. ^{[22
]}

DeYoung, T. ^{[19
]}

Diaz-Velez, J. C. ^{[4
]}

Dreyer, J. ^{[11
]}

Dumm, J. P. ^{[4
]}

Duvoort, M. R. ^{[22
]}

Edwards, W. R. ^{[10
]}

Ehrlich, R. ^{[14
]}

Eisch, J. ^{[4
]}

Ellsworth, R. W. ^{[14
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[2] Univ Canterbury, Dept Phys & Astron, Christchurch 1, New Zealand

[3] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

[4] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[5] Berg Univ Wuppertal, Dept Phys, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany

[6] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[7] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[8] Vrije Univ Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[9] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[10] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[11] Univ Dortmund, Dept Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany

[12] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

[13] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Fac Sci, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[14] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[15] Univ Kansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA

[16] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[17] Uppsala Univ, Div High Energy Phys, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden

[18] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium

[19] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[20] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[21] Univ Ghent, Dept Subatom & Radiat Phys, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

[22] Univ Utrecht, Dept Phys & Astron, SRON, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands

[23] Clark Atlanta Univ, CTSPS, Atlanta, GA 30314 USA

[24] So Univ, Dept Phys, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA

[25] DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany

[26] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[27] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69177 Heidelberg, Germany

[28] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, River Falls, WI 54022 USA

[29] Chiba Univ, Dept Phys, Chiba 2638522, Japan

[30] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

[31] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Blackett Lab, London SW7 2BW, England

[32] Kalmar Univ, Sch Pure & Appl Nat Sci, S-39182 Kalmar, Sweden

[33] Univ Alaska Anchorage, Dept Phys & Astron, Anchorage, AK 99508 USA

[34] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, High Energy Phys Lab, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

[35] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3NP, England

[36] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[37] Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC, Valencia 46071, Spain

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2008年 / 675卷 / 02期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

diffuse radiation; galaxies : active; neutrinos; telescopes;

D O I：

10.1086/527046

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

A search for diffuse neutrinos with energies in excess of 10(5) GeV is conducted with AMANDA-II data recorded between 2000 and 2002. Above 10(7) GeV, the Earth is essentially opaque to neutrinos. This fact, combined with the limited overburden of the AMANDA-II detector ( roughly 1.5 km), concentrates these ultra-high-energy neutrinos at the horizon. The primary background for this analysis is bundles of downgoing, high-energy muons from the interaction of cosmic rays in the atmosphere. No statistically significant excess above the expected background is seen in the data, and an upper limit is set on the diffuse all-flavor neutrino flux of E-2 Phi(90%CL) < 2.7x10(-7) GeV cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1) valid over the energy range of 2x10(5) to 10(9) GeV. A number of models that predict neutrino fluxes from active galactic nuclei are excluded at the 90% confidence level.

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页码：1014 / 1024

页数：11

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