Tau neutrino search with the MAGIC telescope

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2007-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/0709.1462v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Contribution to the 30th ICRC, Merida Mexico, July 2007 on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration

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The MAGIC telescope located on the Roque de los Muchachos on the Canary Island La Palma at a height of 2200 m a.s.l. is able to point to the sea. This permits a search for air shower signatures induced by particles coming out of the Earth. An analytical approximation results in tau neutrino effective areas from ~10^3 m^2 (at 100 TeV) to 10^5 m^2 (at 1 EeV) for an observation angle of about 1 degree below the horizon, rapidly diminishing with further inclination. Taking into account the huge effective area, this configuration was investigated for its suitability to search for ultra-high energy (UHE) tau-neutrino signatures. The outcome of simulations for tau-neutrino signatures will be presented, models for astrophysical neutrino sources reviewed, and estimated event rates in MAGIC are shown.

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