Gorham, PW;
Allison, P;
Baughman, BM;
Beatty, JJ;
Belov, K;
Besson, DZ;
Bevan, S;
... Wang, Y; + view all
(2010)
Observational constraints on the ultrahigh energy cosmic neutrino flux from the second flight of the ANITA experiment.
Physical Review D
, 82
(2)
, Article 022004. 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.022004.
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Abstract
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) completed its second Long Duration Balloon flight in January 2009, with 31 days aloft (28.5 live days) over Antarctica. ANITA searches for impulsive coherent radio Cherenkov emission from 200 to 1200 MHz, arising from the Askaryan charge excess in ultrahigh energy neutrino-induced cascades within Antarctic ice. This flight included significant improvements over the first flight in payload sensitivity, efficiency, and flight trajectory. Analysis of in-flight calibration pulses from surface and subsurface locations verifies the expected sensitivity. In a blind analysis, we find 2 surviving events on a background, mostly anthropogenic, of 0.97 +/- 0.42 events. We set the strongest limit to date for 10(18)-10(21) eV cosmic neutrinos, excluding several current cosmogenic neutrino models.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Observational constraints on the ultrahigh energy cosmic neutrino flux from the second flight of the ANITA experiment |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.022004 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.022004 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | A correction was published on 15 February 2012 in volume 85(4), article no. 049901, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.049901. - This is the published version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1571178 |
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