Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2009-10-25
Phys.Rev.Lett.103:191301,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.191301
Particle cascades initiated by ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos in the lunar regolith will emit an electromagnetic pulse with a time duration of the order of nano seconds through a process known as the Askaryan effect. It has been shown that in an observing window around 150 MHz there is a maximum chance for detecting this radiation with radio telescopes commonly used in astronomy. In 50 hours of observation time with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope array we have set a new limit on the flux of neutrinos, summed over all flavors, with energies in excess of $4\times10^{22}$ eV.
Bacelar J.
Braun Robert
Buitink Stijn
de Bruyn Ger A.
Falcke Heino
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