Title
Concept and Analysis for a 1 - 100 PeV Tau Neutrino Observatory
Date Issued
02 July 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Romero-Wolf A.
Carvalho W.
Alvarez-Muñiz J.
Bazo J.
Bellido J.
Cummings A.
Schoorlemmer H.
Wissel S.
Zas E.
Publisher(s)
Sissa Medialab Srl
Abstract
The IceCube Neutrino observatory has discovered an astrophysical neutrino flux in the energy range >1 TeV with their highest energy event ∼3 PeV. Although IceCube has excellent muon flavor identification, their ability to identify tau neutrinos is highly limited. We present a concept for observing the tau neutrino flux in the 1-100 PeV range, where a flux is guaranteed and its observation would give further support to the astrophysical origin of the IceCube flux. The design of the observatory requires an acceptance hAΩi >400 m2 sr×( PeVE )1.5 to match the ∼1 PeV IceCube all-flavor event rate in tau neutrinos provided a νe : νµ : ντ = 1: 1: 1 flavor ratio. The energy dependence of the acceptance is designed to match the IceCube best-fit spectral flux index of E−2.5 so the spectrum is evenly sampled in the 1-100 PeV range. We present a background-free implementation with pointing resolution < 1◦ to begin the era of high energy tau neutrino astronomy.
Volume
358
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física y Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85127489686
ISSN of the container
18248039
Conference
Proceedings of Science
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgements: Part of this work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. A. R.-W. thanks the Caltech/JPL President’s and Director’s Research and Development Fund. W.C. thanks grants #2015/15735-1 and #2018/18876-3, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Copyright 2019. All rights reserved.
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