Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.3208j&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #32.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.704
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present new flux limits for E > 1018eV neutrinos derived from radio searches using a lunar target. The RESUN search used three 4-antenna sub-arrays of the Expanded Very Large Array at an observing frequency of 1.4 GHz to search for short duration Cerenkov emission from the lunar limb. Each antenna's down-converted waveform was sampled every 10 nsec, with all pulses exceeding a 4-sigma threshold time-stamped and recorded for post-processing. For each sub-array, the data were searched for 4-antenna coincidences using differential delay windows corresponding to sources of lunar origin. We detected no coincident pulses during 250 observing hours. This implies upper limits to the differential neutrino flux of E2dN/dE < 0.0002 EeV/km2/s/sr and < 0.00006 EeV/km2/s at 90% confidence level for isotropic and sampled point sources respectively, in the neutrino energy range 1020.5 < E(eV) < 1023.0. The isotropic flux limit is more than an order of magnitude lower than previously published upper limits for lunar searches, and is incompatible with predicted fluxes from Z-burst models of neutrino generation.
Gayley Ken G.
Jaeger Theodore
Mutel Robert L.
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