TY - JOUR
T1 - Comprehensive estimate of the sensitivity of ANITA to tau neutrinos
AU - THE ANITA COLLABORATION
AU - Wissel, Stephanie
AU - Burch, Claire
AU - Carvalho, Washington C.
AU - Crowley, Joe
AU - Alvarez-Muñiz, Jaime
AU - Cummings, Austin
AU - Kauther, Abdulrahman
AU - Romero-Wolf, Andrés
AU - Schoorlemmer, Harm
AU - Zas, Enrique
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/7/2
Y1 - 2021/7/2
N2 - Two anomalous events have been reported by the ANITA collaboration that are observationally consistent with air showers from a particle emerging from the Antarctic ice. One possible interpretation of these events is that they are due to tau neutrinos interacting in the Earth, resulting in an air shower initiated by a tau lepton decay. We present a comprehensive study of the sensitivity of ANITA to tau neutrinos, using the expected Standard Model cross-sections and tau lepton energy losses, varied ice thicknesses, and radio emission simulation of upgoing tau showers with ZHAireS.
AB - Two anomalous events have been reported by the ANITA collaboration that are observationally consistent with air showers from a particle emerging from the Antarctic ice. One possible interpretation of these events is that they are due to tau neutrinos interacting in the Earth, resulting in an air shower initiated by a tau lepton decay. We present a comprehensive study of the sensitivity of ANITA to tau neutrinos, using the expected Standard Model cross-sections and tau lepton energy losses, varied ice thicknesses, and radio emission simulation of upgoing tau showers with ZHAireS.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85135857513
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 358
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 1034
T2 - 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2019
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 1 August 2019
ER -