The Pierre Auger Observatory and Neutrinos

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Jun 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007nuphs.168..225b&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, Volume 168, p. 225-231.

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The Pierre Auger Observatory is a hybrid detector (fluorescence telescopes and ground array) of cosmic rays of ultra-high energy, designed to observe extensive atmospheric showers. It has also a capability to observe rare neutrino-induced showers: if they are almost horizontal, they can be distinguished from the background produced by the muonic tails of nucleic showers. They may be initiated either by a direct interaction of a neutrino in the atmosphere, or, with a larger probability, by the decay of a tau lepton emerging from the ground after an interaction of a tau neutrino within the earth. An evaluation of the sensitivity of the Surface Detector of Auger to such “earth-skimming” events is presented, and a procedure to discrimine them from the background is described.

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