EAS optical Cherenkov signatures of tau neutrinos for space and suborbital detectors

the POEMMA; JEM-EUSO Collaborations

EAS optical Cherenkov signatures of tau neutrinos for space and suborbital detectors

the POEMMA
, JEM-EUSO Collaborations

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Iowa
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Biochemical and Environmental Engineering
University of Chicago
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Lehman College
Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS)
INFN Sezione di Catania
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palemo
College of Computing
University of Turin
INFN Sezione di Torino
University of Utah
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
GSFC Laboratory for Atmopsheres
Niels Bohr Institutet
INFN Sezione di Bari
Università degli Studi di Catania
Riken
Sezione di Roma
INFN Roma Tor Vergata
RIIKEN
Joint Laboratory of Optics
Institute of Physics
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Colorado School of Mines
University of Maryland
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
University of Tübingen
University of California, Space Sciences Laboratory
Moscow State University
Institute of Experimental Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
of Sciences
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares de la UNAM
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
University of Geneva
Astroparticule and Cosmol APC

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Abstract

Multi-messenger observations of transient astrophysical sources have the potential to characterize the highest energy accelerators and the most extreme environments in the Universe. Detection of neutrinos, in particular tau neutrinos generated by neutrino oscillations in transit from their sources to Earth, is possible for neutrino energies above 10 PeV using optical Cherenkov detectors imaging upward-moving extensive air showers (EAS). These EAS are produced from Earth-interacting tau neutrinos leading to tau leptons that subsequently decay in the atmosphere. We compare neutrino detection sensitivities for generic short- and long-burst transient neutrino sources and sensitivities to the diffuse neutrino flux for the second generation Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super-Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB2) balloon-borne mission and the proposed space-based Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) mission.

Original language	English
Article number	1201
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	395
Publication status	Published - 18 Mar 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021 - Virtual, Berlin, Germany Duration: 12 Jul 2021 → 23 Jul 2021

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EAS optical Cherenkov signatures of tau neutrinos for space and suborbital detectors

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