New Limits on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the ANITA Experiment Export

@article{citeulike:3796586, abstract = {We report initial results of the first flight of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA-1) 2006-2007 Long Duration Balloon flight, which searched for evidence of a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos above energies of 3 EeV. ANITA-1 flew for 35 days looking for radio impulses due to the Askaryan effect in neutrino-induced electromagnetic showers within the Antarctic ice sheets. We report here on our initial analysis, which was performed as a blind search of the data. No neutrino candidates are seen, with no detected physics background. We set model-independent limits based on this result. Upper limits derived from our analysis rule out the highest cosmogenic neutrino models. In a background horizontal-polarization channel, we also detect six events consistent with radio impulses from ultra-high energy extensive air showers.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Collaboration, Anita and Gorham, P. and Allison, P. and Barwick, S. and Beatty, J. and Besson, D. and Binns, W. and Chen, C. and Chen, P. and Clem, J. and Connolly, A. and Dowkontt, P. and Duvernois, M. and Field, R. and Goldstein, D. and Goodhue, A. and Hast, C. and Hebert, C. and Hoover, S. and Israel, M. and Kowalski, J. and Learned, J. and Liewer, K. and Link, J. and Lusczek, E. and Matsuno, S. and Mercurio, B. and Miki, C. and Miocinovic, P. and Nam, J. and Naudet, C. and Nichol, R. and Palladino, K. and Reil, K. and Romero-Wolf, A. and Rosen, M. and Ruckman, L. and Saltzberg, D. and Seckel, D. and Varner, G. and Walz, D. and Wang, Y. and Wu, F.}, citeulike-article-id = {3796586}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2715}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0812.2715}, day = {15}, eprint = {0812.2715}, keywords = {he, neutrino, paris}, month = {Dec}, posted-at = {2008-12-16 13:25:50}, priority = {2}, title = {New Limits on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the ANITA Experiment}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2715}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3796586 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3796586 N2 - We report initial results of the first flight of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA-1) 2006-2007 Long Duration Balloon flight, which searched for evidence of a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos above energies of 3 EeV. ANITA-1 flew for 35 days looking for radio impulses due to the Askaryan effect in neutrino-induced electromagnetic showers within the Antarctic ice sheets. We report here on our initial analysis, which was performed as a blind search of the data. No neutrino candidates are seen, with no detected physics background. We set model-independent limits based on this result. Upper limits derived from our analysis rule out the highest cosmogenic neutrino models. In a background horizontal-polarization channel, we also detect six events consistent with radio impulses from ultra-high energy extensive air showers. TI - New Limits on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the ANITA Experiment KW - he KW - neutrino KW - paris AU - Collaboration, Anita AU - Gorham, P AU - Allison, P AU - Barwick, S AU - Beatty, J AU - Besson, D AU - Binns, W AU - Chen, C AU - Chen, P AU - Clem, J AU - Connolly, A AU - Dowkontt, P AU - Duvernois, M AU - Field, R AU - Goldstein, D AU - Goodhue, A AU - Hast, C AU - Hebert, C AU - Hoover, S AU - Israel, M AU - Kowalski, J AU - Learned, J AU - Liewer, K AU - Link, J AU - Lusczek, E AU - Matsuno, S AU - Mercurio, B AU - Miki, C AU - Miocinovic, P AU - Nam, J AU - Naudet, C AU - Nichol, R AU - Palladino, K AU - Reil, K AU - Romero-Wolf, A AU - Rosen, M AU - Ruckman, L AU - Saltzberg, D AU - Seckel, D AU - Varner, G AU - Walz, D AU - Wang, Y AU - Wu, F PY - 2008/Dec/15/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2715 ER -