Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-07-20
Phys.Rev.D53:1684-1698,1996
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
45 pages, 21 figures, uuencoded, gzipped, submitted to Phys. Rev. D, also available at http://poincare.math.ukans.edu/~frichte
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.53.1684
Interactions of ultrahigh energy neutrinos of cosmological origin in large volumes of dense, radio-transparent media can be detected via coherent Cherenkov emission from accompanying electromagnetic showers. Antarctic ice meets the requirements for an efficient detection medium for a radio frequency neutrino telescope. We carefully estimate the sensitivity of realistic antennas embedded deep in the ice to 100 MHz - 1 GHz signals generated by predicted neutrino fluxes from active galactic nuclei. Our main conclusion is that a {\it single radio receiver} can probe a $\sim 1$ ${\rm km}^3$ volume for events with primary energy near 2 PeV and that the total number of events registered would be roughly 200 to 400 ${\rm year}^{-1}$ in our most conservative estimate. An array of such receivers would increase sensitivity dramatically. A radio neutrino telescope could directly observe and test our understanding of the most powerful particle accelerators in the universe, simultaneously testing the standard theory of particle physics at unprecedented energies.
Frichter George M.
McKay Douglas W.
Ralston John P.
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