Limit on the ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray flux with the Westerbork synthesis radio telescope

被引：19

作者：

ter Veen, S. ^{[1
]}

Buitink, S. ^{[2
]}

Falcke, H. ^{[1
,3
]}

James, C. W. ^{[1
]}

Mevius, M. ^{[4
]}

Scholten, O. ^{[4
]}

Singh, K. ^{[4
,5
]}

Stappers, B. ^{[6
]}

de Vries, K. D. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, IMAPP, Dept Astrophys, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands

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

[3] ASTRON, NL-7990 AA Dwingeloo, Netherlands

[4] Univ Groningen, Kernfys Versneller Inst, NL-9747 AA Groningen, Netherlands

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

[6] Univ Manchester, Sch Phys & Astron, Jodrell Bank Ctr Astrophys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 82卷 / 10期

基金：

欧洲研究理事会;

关键词：

CERENKOV RADIATION; AIR-SHOWERS; EMISSION; NEUTRINOS; SPECTRUM; PULSES; CHARGE;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.103014

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

A particle cascade (shower) in a dielectric, for example, as initiated by an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, will have an excess of electrons which will emit coherent Cerenkov radiation, known as the Askaryan effect. In this work we study the case in which such a particle shower occurs in a medium just below its surface. We show, for the first time, that the radiation transmitted through the surface is independent of the depth of the shower below the surface when observed from far away, apart from trivial absorption effects. As a direct application we use the recent results of the NuMoon project, where a limit on the neutrino flux for energies above 10(22) eV was set using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope by measuring pulsed radio emission from the Moon, to set a limit on the flux of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.

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