EAS optical Cherenkov signatures of tau neutrinos for space and suborbital detectors
| dc.contributor.author | Reno, Mary Hall | |
| dc.contributor.author | Venters, Tonia M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Krizmanic, John F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | POEMMA and JEM-EUSO Collaborations | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-23T21:17:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-23T21:17:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-07-12 | |
| dc.description | 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 12-23 July 2021 Berlin, Germany - Online | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is supported in part by NASA grants 80NSSC19K0626 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 80NSSC19K0460 at the Colorado School of Mines, 80NSSC19K0484 at the University of Iowa, and 80NSSC19K0485 at the University of Utah, 80NSSC18K0464 at Lehman College, and under proposal 17-APRA17-0066 at NASA/GSFC and JPL, and by the US Department of Energy grant DE-SC-0010113. The conceptual design of POEMMA was supported by NASA Probe Mission Concept Study grant NNX17AJ82G for the 2020 Decadal Survey Planning. Contributors to this work were also supported in part by NASA awards 16-APROBES16-0023, NNX17AJ82G, NNX13AH54G, 80NSSC18K0246, and 80NSSC18K0473. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://pos.sissa.it/395/1201/pdf | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 10 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | conference papers and proceedings | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2h1xr-xul5 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Reno, Mary Hall et al.; EAS optical Cherenkov signatures of tau neutrinos for space and suborbital detectors; 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 12-23 July 2021; https://pos.sissa.it/395/1201/pdf | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/22075 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Proceedings of Science | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Center for Space Sciences and Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
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| dc.title | EAS optical Cherenkov signatures of tau neutrinos for space and suborbital detectors | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |