A Sterile Neutrino Origin for the Upward Directed Cosmic Ray Showers Detected by ANITA
| Autor: | Cherry, John F., Shoemaker, Ian |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. D 99, 063016 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.063016 |
| Popis: | The ANITA balloon experiment has recently observed several ~EeV cascade events at an angle below the horizon that renders any Standard Model (SM) interpretation unlikely as the Earth is significantly opaque to all SM particles at such energies. In this paper, we study a sterile neutrino interpretation of these events, calculating the angular acceptance of cascades and the relative sensitivities of several experiments to a cascade initiated by an EeV sterile neutrino. We find that ANITA is uniquely sensitive to this type of upward directed cascade signal over a wide portion of the sky and from the direction of the two observed events has a transient acceptance roughly equivalent to that of the IceCube experiment. Comment: 5 pages and 4 figures. This paper has been altered from the previous draft after a significant typographical error was discovered in the ANITA collaboration's published description of their detector model, which was used as input for the previous version of our analysis. The error has been corrected in the updated analysis shown in this draft, altering our results and conclusions |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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