[FPSPACE] Prospects for Lunar Satellite Detection of Radio Pulses from Ultrahigh Energy Ne

[LARRY KLAES]

Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0604199

From: Oscar St{\aa}l [view email]Date (v1): Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:20:57 GMT   
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Prospects for Lunar Satellite Detection of Radio Pulses from Ultrahigh 
Energy Neutrinos Interacting with the Moon

Authors: O. Stål, J.E.S. Bergman, B. Thidé, L.K.S. Daldorff, G. Ingelman

Comments: RevTeX (4 pages, 2 figures). v2 includes updated results and 
extended discussion

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071103 (2007)

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.071103

The Moon provides a huge effective detector volume for ultrahigh energy 
cosmic neutrinos, which generate coherent radio pulses in the lunar surface 
layer due to the Askaryan effect. In light of presently considered lunar 
missions, we propose radio measurements from a Moon-orbiting satellite. 
First systematic Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate the detectability of 
Askaryan pulses from neutrinos with energies above 10^{20} eV, i.e. near and 
above the interesting GZK limit, at the very low fluxes predicted in 
different scenarios.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604199