On the detection of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos with the Auger Observatory

Jan, 1998
15 pages
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  • Astropart.Phys. 8 (1998) 321-328
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We show that the Auger Air Shower Array has the potential to detect neutrinos of energies in the 1019 10^{19}~eV range through horizontal air showers. Assuming some simple conservative trigger requirements we obtain the acceptance for horizontal air showers as induced by high energy neutrinos by two alternative methods and we then give the expected event rates for a variety of neutrino fluxes as predicted in different models which are used for reference.
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  • Latex (15 pages), 4 postscript figures; to appear in Astropart. Phys
  • neutrino: cosmic radiation
  • cosmic radiation: energy spectrum
  • showers: air
  • cosmic radiation: flux
  • neutrino nucleus: deep inelastic scattering
  • charged current
  • neutral current
  • showers: hadronic
  • counters and detectors: acceptance
  • counters and detectors: proposed