Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-04-28
Astropart.Phys.25:277-283,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
17 pages, 6 eps figures, revtex 4, new calculation for the interaction probability end efficiency
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.03.
We investigate the possibility of detecting ultra-high energy cosmic tau-neutrinos by means of a process involving a double extensive air shower, the so-called Double-Bang Phenomenon. In this process a primary tau-neutrino interacts with an atmospheric quark creating a hadronic extensive air shower that contains a tau which subsequently decays creating a second extensive air shower. The number of these events strongly depends on the cross section and on the flux of ultra-high energy tau-neutrinos arriving at the Earth's atmosphere. We estimate the potential of optical detectors to observe Double-Bang events induced by tau-neutrinos with energies of about 1 EeV whose detection may confirm the maximal mixing observed in the atmospheric neutrinos also for ultra-high energy neutrinos, and give information on the neutrino flux and cross-section. For neutrino-nucleon Standard Model extrapolated cross-section and thick source model of flux (MPR), we estimate an event rate of 0.48/yr for an observatory with two fluorescence detectors with 90% efficiency in the neutrino energy range 0.5 < E_nu < 5 EeV.
Moura C. Jr.
Guzzo Marcelo M.
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