Searching for tau neutrinos with Cherenkov telescopes

被引：10

作者：

Gora, D. ^{[1
,3
]}

Bernardini, E. ^{[2
]}

Kappes, A. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Erlangen Ctr Astroparticle Phys, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany

[2] DESY, D-75738 Zeuthen, Germany

[3] Inst Nucl Phys PAN, Krakow, Poland

来源：

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2015年 / 61卷

关键词：

Cherenkov telescopes; Tau neutrinos; Extensive air showers; AIR-SHOWERS; LIGHT; RAY;

D O I：

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2014.06.005

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Cherenkov telescopes have the capability of detecting high energy tau neutrinos in the energy range of 1-1000 Fey by searching for very inclined showers. If a tau lepton, produced by a tau neutrino, escapes from the Earth or a mountain, it will decay and initiate a shower in the air which can be detected by an air shower fluorescence or Cherenkov telescope. In this paper, we present detailed Monte Carlo simulations of corresponding event rates for the VERITAS and two proposed Cherenkov Telescope Array sites: Meteor Crater and Yavapai Ranch, which use representative AGN neutrino flux models and take into account topographic conditions of the detector sites. The calculated neutrino sensitivities depend on the observation time and the shape of the energy spectrum, but in some cases are comparable or even better than corresponding neutrino sensitivities of the IceCube detector. For VERITAS and the considered Cherenkov Telescope Array sites the expected neutrino sensitivities are up to factor 3 higher than for the MAGIC site because of the presence of surrounding mountains. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：12 / 16

页数：5

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