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Constraints on Cosmic Neutrino Fluxes from the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna Experiment

S. W. Barwick et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 171101 – Published 4 May 2006

Abstract

We report new limits on cosmic neutrino fluxes from the test flight of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, which completed an 18.4 day flight of a prototype long-duration balloon payload, called ANITA-lite, in early 2004. We search for impulsive events that could be associated with ultrahigh energy neutrino interactions in the ice and derive limits that constrain several models for ultrahigh energy neutrino fluxes and rule out the long-standing Z-burst model.

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  • Received 9 December 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.171101

©2006 American Physical Society

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Vol. 96, Iss. 17 — 5 May 2006

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    The ANITA-lite system block diagram.Reuse & Permissions
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    Frequency dependence of the excess effective antenna temperature ΔT when pointing to the Sun and the Galactic center [28]. The top band is a model of the expected ΔT, with a width equal to the systematic uncertainties. The lower two bands give contributions due to galactic and solar emissions, respectively. The antenna frequency response is folded into the model.Reuse & Permissions
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    Limits on various models for neutrino fluxes at EeV to ZeV energies. The limits are AMANDA cascades [29], RICE [30], the current work, GLUE [27], the FORTE satellite [20], and projected sensitivity for the full ANITA. Models shown are topological defects for two values of the X-particle mass [9], a TD model involving mirror matter [10], a range of models for GZK cosmogenic neutrinos [22, 24, 25], and several models for Z bursts [6, 26]. In the Z-burst models plotted as points, the flux is a narrow spectral feature in energy, and the error bars shown indicate the range possible for the central energy and peak flux values.Reuse & Permissions
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