Title
Search for neutrino-induced cascades with five years of AMANDA data
Date Issued
01 January 2011
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abbasi R.
Abdou Y.
Abu-Zayyad T.
Actis O.
Adams J.
Aguilar J.A.
Ahlers M.
Andeen K.
Auffenberg J.
Bai X.
Baker M.
Barwick S.W.
Bay R.
Beattie K.
Beatty J.J.
Bechet S.
Becker J.K.
Becker K.H.
Benabderrahmane M.L.
Berdermann J.
Berghaus P.
Berley D.
Bernardini E.
Bertrand D.
Besson D.Z.
Bissok M.
Blaufuss E.
Boersma D.J.
Bohm C.
Böser S.
Botner O.
Bradley L.
Braun J.
Buitink S.
Carson M.
Chirkin D.
Christy B.
Clem J.
Clevermann F.
Cohen S.
Colnard C.
Cowen D.F.
D'Agostino M.V.
Danninger M.
Davis J.C.
De Clercq C.
Demirörs L.
Depaepe O.
Descamps F.
Desiati P.
De Vries-Uiterweerd G.
Deyoung T.
Díaz-Vélez J.C.
Dreyer J.
Dumm J.P.
Duvoort M.R.
Ehrlich R.
Eisch J.
Ellsworth R.W.
Engdegrd O.
Euler S.
Evenson P.A.
Fadiran O.
Fazely A.R.
Feusels T.
Filimonov K.
Finley C.
Foerster M.M.
Fox B.D.
Franckowiak A.
Franke R.
Gaisser T.K.
Gallagher J.
Ganugapati R.
Geisler M.
Gerhardt L.
Gladstone L.
Glüsenkamp T.
Goldschmidt A.
Goodman J.A.
Grant D.
Griesel T.
Groß A.
Grullon S.
Gunasingha R.M.
Gurtner M.
Ha C.
Hallgren A.
Halzen F.
Han K.
Hanson K.
Helbing K.
Herquet P.
Hickford S.
Hill G.C.
Hoffman K.D.
Homeier A.
Hoshina K.
Hubert D.
RWTH Aachen University
Abstract
We report on the search for electromagnetic and hadronic showers ("cascades") produced by a diffuse flux of extraterrestrial neutrinos in the AMANDA neutrino telescope. Data for this analysis were recorded during 1001 days of detector livetime in the years 2000-2004. The observed event rates are consistent with the background expectation from atmospheric neutrinos and muons. An upper limit is derived for the diffuse flux of neutrinos of all flavors assuming a flavor ratio of νe:νμ: ντ = 1:1:1 at the detection site. The all-flavor flux of neutrinos with an energy spectrum Φ ∝ E-2 is less than 5.0 × 10-7 GeV s-1 sr-1 cm-2 at a 90% C.L. Here, 90% of the simulated signal would fall within the energy range 40 TeV to 9 PeV. We discuss flux limits in the context of several specific models of extraterrestrial and prompt atmospheric neutrino production. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Start page
420
End page
430
Volume
34
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-78650518728
Source
Astroparticle Physics
ISSN of the container
09276505
Sponsor(s)
We acknowledge the support from the following agencies: US National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Program, US National Science Foundation-Physics Division, University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, US Department of Energy, and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) grid computing resources; Swedish Research Council, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Research Department of Plasmas with Complex Interactions (Bochum), Germany; Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FWO), FWO Odysseus programme, Flanders Institute to encourage scientific and technological research in industry (IWT), Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo); Marsden Fund, New Zealand; M. Ribordy acknowledges the support of the SNF (Switzerland); A. Kappes and A. Groß acknowledge support by the EU Marie Curie OIF Program; J. P. Rodrigues acknowledge support by the Capes Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil.
Office of Polar Programs
Polarforskningssekretariatet
Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/J000507/1
European Commission
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
Vetenskapsrådet
Ministério da Educação
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