Sensitivity of the JEM-EUSO telescope to gravity effects in neutrino-induced air showers

Autor:	Mladenov, Stefan, Vankova, Galina, Tsenov, Roumen, Bertaina, Mario, Santangelo, Andrea
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We examine the JEM-EUSO sensitivity to gravity effects in the context of Randall-Sundrum (RS) model with a single extra dimension and small curvature of the metric. Exchanges of reggeized Kaluza-Klein gravitons in the $t$-channel contribute to the inelastic cross-section for scattering of ultra-high-energy neutrinos off nucleons. Such effects can be detected in deeply penetrating quasi-horizontal air showers induced by interactions of cosmic neutrinos with atmospheric nucleons. For this reason, we calculate the expected number of quasi-horizontal air showers at the JEM-EUSO observatory as a function of two parameters of the RS model. Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07196 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv