Artículo
Neutrino initiated cascades at mid and high altitudes in the atmosphere
Fecha de publicación:
05/2011
Editorial:
Elsevier Science
Revista:
Astroparticle Physics
ISSN:
0927-6505
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
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Resumen
High energy neutrinos play a very important role for the understanding of the origin and propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR). They can be produced as a consequence of the hadronic interactions suffered by the cosmic rays in the acceleration regions, as by products of the propagation of the UHECR in the radiation background and as a main product of the decay of super heavy relic particles. A new era of very large exposure space observatories, of which the JEM-EUSO mission is a prime example, is on the horizon which opens the possibility of neutrino detection in the highest energy region of the spectrum. In the present work we use a combination of the PYTHIA interaction code with the CONEX shower simulation package in order to produce fast one-dimensional simulations of neutrino initiated showers in air. We make a detail study of the structure of the corresponding longitudinal profiles, but focus our physical analysis mainly on the development of showers at mid and high altitudes, where they can be an interesting target for space fluorescence observatories.
Palabras clave:
Ultra High Energy Neutrinos
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Space Observation
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Citación
Supanitsky, Alberto Daniel; Medina Tanco, Gustavo Adolfo; Neutrino initiated cascades at mid and high altitudes in the atmosphere; Elsevier Science; Astroparticle Physics; 35; 1; 5-2011; 8-16
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