Limits on diffuse fluxes of high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos with the AMANDA-B10 detector -: art. no. 251101

被引：77

作者：

Ahrens, J

Bai, X

Barwick, SW

Bay, RC

Becka, T

Becker, KH

Bernardini, E

Bertrand, D

Biron, A

Boeser, S

Botner, O

Bouchta, A

Bouhali, O

Burgess, T

Carius, S

Castermans, T

Chirkin, D

Conrad, J

Cooley, J

Cowen, DF

Davour, A

De Clercq, C

DeYoung, T

Desiati, P

Doksus, P

Ekström, P

Feser, T

Gaisser, TK

Ganugapati, R

Gaug, M

Geenen, H

Gerhardt, L

Goldschmidt, A

Hallgren, A

Halzen, F

Hanson, K

Hardtke, R

Hauschildt, T

Hellwig, M

Herquet, P

Hill, GC

Hulth, PO

Hughey, B

Hultqvist, K

Hundertmark, S

Jacobsen, J

Karle, A

Kuehn, K

Kim, J

Köpke, L

机构：

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

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

[3] DESY Zeuthen, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany

[4] Univ Kalmar, Dept Technol, S-30182 Kalmar, Sweden

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

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

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

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

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

[10] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[11] Free Univ Brussels, Sci Fac CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

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

[13] Berg Univ Wuppertal, Fachbereich Phys 8, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany

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

[15] Free Univ Brussels, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

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

[17] Univ Simon Bolivar, Dept Fis, Caracas 1080A, Venezuela

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

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2003年 / 90卷 / 25期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.251101

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

Data from the AMANDA-B10 detector taken during the austral winter of 1997 have been searched for a diffuse flux of high energy extraterrestrial muon neutrinos. This search yielded no excess events above those expected from background atmospheric neutrinos, leading to upper limits on the extraterrestrial neutrino flux measured at the earth. For an assumed E-2 spectrum, a 90% classical confidence level upper limit has been placed at a level E(2)Phi(E)=8.4x10(-7) cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1) GeV (for a predominant neutrino energy range 6-1000 TeV), which is the most restrictive bound placed by any neutrino detector. Some specific predicted model spectra are excluded. Interpreting these limits in terms of the flux from a cosmological distributions of sources requires the incorporation of neutrino oscillations, typically weakening the limits by a factor of 2.

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